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Old 04-28-2006, 04:43 AM  
Barefootsies
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Originally Posted by V_RocKs
We based our public transportation systems around a BOOMING car industry that we could capitalize on... Now we are fucked...

Also Europeans pay so much because of the higher taxes on the product. Their tax structure is very different than our own... Property taxes, sales taxes, etc... So think of it as give and take...
True dat.

Plus the Europeans, or a lot of their countries, have better public transportation by compared to the US who do not. Not to mention (as you pointed out) the Europeans are raped in taxes a lot more for gas, and things by comparison. So they are used to it.

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