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"IO" wrote:

Chad Irby wrote:
In article , "IO"
wrote:

Europeans car uses less fuel than american ones. Medium european car
engine=1400cc medium usa car engine=2000 cc= a lot of more fuel.
Europeans do less kilometers per year than an americans.

So they have a lower standard of living when it comes to personal
transportation.

No idiot the distances in Europe are much less than USA.

Which means you don't need cars with big engines, since you don't
usually go as far. Of course, it certainly brings up "why are gas taxes
so high?"

Oh, right... to pay for all of the other programs that cost you too much.

But if the government wasn't so overwhelming there, they wouldn't need
so much of your money.

We also have an efficient human transportation by railway (HIGH speed
train in france spain italy germany...). USA has diesel loco's
europeans electric ones...

Not mentioning, of course, that since most American railways are
covering three to ten times as much distance, electric trains are a
horrible waste of money (infrastructure costs can kill you for long
runs).

And also not mentioning that some American trains *are* electric (the
short-haul ones).

And for *long* distances (the ones you guys use trains for), we use
these newfangled things called "airplanes," which are pretty cheap to
operate over distances over a couple of hundred miles.

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