Gas prices spike across the continental US and in Canada overnight through earlier today
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North Americans need lower gas prices. Canada and US are massive countries and people are very spread out compared to European countries for the most part.
The cities also tend to grow outwards rather than up. It's all catered for the automobile. I agree they need alternatives to gas/diesel but electric is not the answer. Not yet anyways.
[QUOTE=Jackald;37648731]Only because America in general has atrocious public transport networks. In Europe you can travel all over the place via trains and buses and shit. We even have a train that goes under the ocean connecting France to England.[/QUOTE]
We aren't socialist.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;37651417][B]Where[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=areolop;37651508]WHERE ARE YOU. saudi arabia?[/QUOTE]
Close. Qatar.
[QUOTE=Isuzu;37647993]if only people came up with vehicles that use alternative energies to drive like electricity...............[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmrwMfNxrI[/media]
lol america look what happens when the chinese trade oil using yuan
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[QUOTE=No_Excuses;37654334]North Americans need lower gas prices. Canada and US are massive countries and people are very spread out compared to European countries for the most part.
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heh
Australia is roughly the same size as the US, yet we pay exorbitant amounts more than you
I think it has something to do with larger percentages of excessive oversized vehicle ownership
4 dollars here for a galleon.
Vancouver is 1.35/L for regular.
Diesel is 1.42.
:suicide:
What irritates me more than the rising prices is paying for premium (around $4.40 average in my city last I checked), and it's such [I]shitty[/I] quality octane. I'm dreading the day the standard drops any lower than it has.
$3.79 in New Hampshire, and that was when I filled up on Sunday.
I was enjoying these sub $50 fill ups for a while. Round trip to work and back home is 24miles. Only other big distance I travel is to the MMA gym I go to, which is only a few more miles round trip.
[QUOTE=Jackald;37648731]Only because America in general has atrocious public transport networks. In Europe you can travel all over the place via trains and buses and shit. We even have a train that goes under the ocean connecting France to England.[/QUOTE]
Europe is only slightly larger than the United States, but everything is much more compact, and you have 3x as many people. The US has 300 million people, but they're mostly spread out. Most of our major cities are all rather far away from each other. Plus the millions of towns and smaller communities that endlessly dot the country, that make up a significant portion of our population, yet are too small to have train stations in.
Y'all need some high speed rail.
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