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Originally Posted by Seaver
Quit whining about the prices we Americans pay for gas. The ONLY reason you pay more is because your own people decided to tax the hell out of gas.
We get no special deals from foreign oil, your country buys it at the same price as we do.
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That's what people never consider when comparing Europe and the US in gas prices. Europe also has state-paid healthcare and a crap load of other stuff that we US residents have to pay for ourselves. Europe's economy is set up for high gas prices, ours is not.