(BUFDRVR) wrote in message ...
EU standard of life is at less equal of the USA one.

After having recently spent 10 days in western Europe, I'll disagree using one
example; fuel prices. The cost of both gas and diesel in Germany, France,
Luxemburg and Belgium was *3-4 times higher* than the average fuel prices in
the US. Unless you can show me that the average EU citizen makes 3-4 times more
than the average US citizen, you have a significant negative impact on standard
of living.

Disagree on this issue - my daily commute to work is eight miles each
way, in a car that returns sixty miles to the gallon. I buy about
sixty dollars of fuel a month. (Yes, I'm fortunate and others have
longer journeys and/or thirstier vehicles). High fuel prices are an
irritant but (for example) the Common Agricultural Policy puts far
more of a hole in my bank balance than high fuel prices.

If Europe was as dispersed and involved the same routine travel
distances as much of the US seemed to... but it doesn't.

Where the US (and Canada) seems to score is land prices and house
sizes, but that's what I get for living in a crowded island.


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Paul (overseas)