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Originally posted by: Lothar
Originally posted by: seemingly random
How much is health care over there?
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Health care is "free" there. 😛
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Apparently they have pills to make Europeans uppity about gases even though it's their ridiculous taxes that make it expensive too.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Try 1.4 Euro per liter. That's what it is here in Portugal. It was 1.3 Euros per liter in Spain.

Someone do the math. I don't have a calculator. I believe it is 3.85 liters per gallon and the exchange rate is roughly 1.6 dollars per 1 Euro.
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Ya, well your taxes help build roads, etc.

Our taxes go to fight a stupid war. Our roads are filled with potholes! This country is a shadow of its former self.
 
Originally posted by: SillyOReilly
Portugal has a total area of 35,672 square miles

Maine, which is 39th of 50 in size in the USA is 35,387 square miles.

Ugh to you Euro pee ons.
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ROFLMAO!

sorry i had to laugh at this one.
 
Originally posted by: dr150
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Try 1.4 Euro per liter. That's what it is here in Portugal. It was 1.3 Euros per liter in Spain.

Someone do the math. I don't have a calculator. I believe it is 3.85 liters per gallon and the exchange rate is roughly 1.6 dollars per 1 Euro.
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Ya, well your taxes help build roads, etc.

Our taxes go to fight a stupid war. Our roads are filled with potholes! This country is a shadow of its former self.
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haha yeah, we are all driving on dirt roads in america!!! Its chaos
 
Originally posted by: dr150

Ya, well your taxes help build roads, etc.

Our taxes go to fight a stupid war. Our roads are filled with potholes! This country is a shadow of its former self.
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yeah, you're right, there is hardly any road construction here anymore!


Originally posted by: Ktulu
EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! JULES WENT TO EUROPE AND HE'S DRIVEN A LOTUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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don't forget, his wife drives a lexus is and he hates SUVs
 
I ride my bike. But the cost of food in NY is way up. Petrolium is affecting everything. Even electronics. China is raising cost on its electronics exports. Everyone is affected, not just drivers. I remember the gas crunch in the 70s, there wasnt even gas to be had. Now we are paying through the nose and there is plenty of gas. It just makes no sense.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: dr150

Ya, well your taxes help build roads, etc.

Our taxes go to fight a stupid war. Our roads are filled with potholes! This country is a shadow of its former self.
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yeah, you're right, there is hardly any road construction here anymore!
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Actually, almost every aspect of our infrastructure needs serious maintenance.

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The need is so dire that a congressionally created commission recently estimated that even modest improvements would require government investments of between $130 billion and $240 billion a year in highways through 2020, far greater than the current $68 billion.
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Internet traffic has skyrocketed since the major telecom investments of the late 1990s. YouTube alone now consumes more bandwidth than the entire Internet did in 2000, said Scott Cleland, president of the Precursor Group, a technology research firm.
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The water pipes running underground are decades old. Some date to the 19th century. Some are wooden. The aging water system has led to increasing reports of burst pipes and contamination. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the nation must invest $202.5 billion in the next 20 years to upgrade wastewater treatment and collection, sewage and storm water management systems. That's on top of $276.8 billion that the EPA estimates is needed to upgrade drinking water systems.
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Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
What about the countries that are paying $1 or less?
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It does indeed work both ways. Venenzuela is paying $0.12 per gallon.

Speaking of subsudies, the governor of Alaska wants to give a rebate of $1,200 for every man, woman and child in Alaska because their tax and sales revenues are overflowing because of oil. Who owns the oil: Alaska or the US?

I want my share too! 😛
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We do.... (lives in Alaska) 😛
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
I ride my bike. But the cost of food in NY is way up. Petrolium is affecting everything. Even electronics. China is raising cost on its electronics exports. Everyone is affected, not just drivers. I remember the gas crunch in the 70s, there wasnt even gas to be had. Now we are paying through the nose and there is plenty of gas. It just makes no sense.
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No, it makes perfect sense. In the 70's the government intervened and capped gas prices. The result? At that cost, less people produced gas, it wasn't profitable. This time the government is reacting correctly -- incentivising things that will increase supply and lower demand while letting the price float, forcing people to use less and encouraging suppliers to produce more.
 
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