In contrast to our European friends who pay a much higher gas price it should be noted that the price jump is significant to us in North America due to the distant we have to travel .... there is a considerable distance in getting our foods from California and Florida upto the Northeast, our manufactured goods from Michigan to Florida ... our families live farther apart ... it certainly will be much costlier to drive from St. Louis to see mom and dad in Conneticut at Thanksgiving, our daily commuting distance is much further .... in short the demographics are much, much different than Europe.

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