Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
4$ per gallon? try Netherlands.
Price per gallon of premium gasoline: $8.26
Price change since last quarter: -12%
Most-expensive-gas rank: #5
Pain-at-the-pump rank: #41
Netherlands has the most bicycles per capita in the world. Rows upon rows of them stand parked at train stations, museums and national parks. A vast infrastructure of bike paths and lanes, tunnels and traffic signals makes cycling easy to adopt.
The average daily income in the Netherlands is $131. The share of a day's wages needed to buy a gallon of gas is 6.3 percent.

USA:

Price per gallon of premium gasoline: $3.75
Price change since last quarter: -11%
Most-expensive-gas rank: #49
Pain-at-the-pump rank: #55

The average daily income in the U.S. is $136, and the share of a day's wages needed to buy a gallon of gas is 2.8 percent.

And still complaining? ;)
yeah I am still complaining. Very very very few clear $136 a day... more like avg daily income is about $50 and lets not forget a lot of people lucky to have a job (remember we have a real un-employment rate 30-40%) have to drive at least 1 hour or more away one way... many have to drive 2 hours away. About the only people making $136 a day are people working for the government or drug dealers.

Lets also not forget the Netherlands are only 16,039 sq mi in size. where as Indiana alone is 36,418 sq mi so we are just over twice the size of the Netherlands.. then add in a chunk of the surrounding states cause many people do travel to OH,KY,MI for work. so you get more mi2 added to the number. (and yes a good majority who do travel to other states for work make at or close to min wage.)

So yes $4 a gallon kills us. oh and we have over a billion barrels of oil under our feet here. so we see no excuse for $4 a gallon. (maybe $1)

Now add in Bicycles may work in the Netherlands but won't here. Simple fact is you roll into the wrong place and you are going to die or get the shit beat out of you and robbed. I don't think anyone in the Netherlands will kill someone for a dollar here people will.