Well... perhaps that's not the best scenario... as the driving factor
there (Europe and Asia) is/was probably more that they were
designed and built to fit the tiny road systems that already existed.
Where as in the U.S. and Australia there was plenty of room to build roads.
Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Arundell" <arundell@ghs.com.au>
To: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; "Rick Lindsay" <rick@stoolhead.com>;
<ptegler@cablespeed.com>; "Charles & Peggy Robinson" <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Petrol pricing - plain and simple!
> Well to be fair, given that this is an international list complaining
about
> the price
> of fuel in the US does to the rest of us sound like whining. The price of
> fuel in the
> US is rediculously low when compared to the rest of the world. As indeed
it
> is here
> in Australia. One has only to look at the products of or local automakers
> to see that.
> Large six and eight cylinder engined cars prevail. Then take a look at
Asia
> and Europe.......
>
> Times change and the entire world needs to look at how much fuel they
burn.
> The only way
> you will reduce it is to make it expensive. I don;t like it, and it may
not
> seem fair, but it is
> necessary.
>
> Murray Arundell
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