Originally Posted by Epoch
The problem is that in other countries, the gas is damn expensive because of taxation, which is used to pay for the roads, environmental cleanup, and mass transit. When I was in europe, the roads were immaculate and I swear I didn't see a single pothole.
Here, the taxes haven't gone up. The gas companies just realized they can make more of a profit, and keep raising the prices. When the prices stabilize is when their profits cap off :happysad:
if the gas prices were high because of taxation, then people would bitch even more. also the tax needs to be higher there because they simply have less cars. mass transit also works because the populations are packed much much more densely.
using germany as an example, they often have bad traffic jams caused by the constant road work being done (not everywhere but it's enough to cause problems). this wouldn't be so bad if it didn't cost them so much money to repave/repair.
you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.