“It didn’t happen, but if it did, we didn’t do it, and anyway they were Nazis.”
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Now €2.10 a litre for us in Ireland
Ouch. I make that around £1.77 in real money. 
It’s the same in Norway. Then again, we sometimes had 21-22 kroners before the war. We produce a lot of oil, but tax petrol so it has never ever been cheap in Norway.
I am annoyed at Americans raging against 4.17 dollars a gallon. It’s not very expensive all in all. Their problem is first and foremost their shitty public transport sector and the fact that in the US, it is low status to take the bus (which is insane).
1 litre is 26 Kroner here now. That’s approx 2.6 Euro. Americans pay very little still and their use of cars have never ever been sustainable, so this is a god correction for them.
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Russia has just released photographic evidence of some of the birds used to carry the virus…
was it carrying swine flu?
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£1:50 in Doncaster area, and are full…but villagers near motorways…mainly Texaco…£1:90…, not full hardly any customers…good job these Texaco garages incoporate a mini supermarket…just to cover the cash till wages.
It our defense it was <$3.00 a gallon a year ago. That represents a significant increase in a short which can really effect an individuals budget if they are not wealthy. Additionally most of American has unusable poor public transportation and spread out logistics meaning people have to drive longer distances to get to work and shops.
That being said - we should have had more tax on gas and higher prices for decades leading up to this. And I personally am going to be the last to whine while seeing the crimes abuse and suffering Russia is causing in the Ukraine right now.
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cue Donald…
My cousin came home last year, shocked after working 6 years in the US. Pitsburgh, Pensylvania and North Carolina were where he worked. He also traveled widely. He told me (this is why he was shocked) that on his work place, which was upper middle class, people looked down on people taking the bus and didn’t want to take bus for social image reasons. Now, that is just one anecdote, but I have read about this in papers too. It is frankly very strange that people get looked down on as “lower class” for taking a buss to work.
But I realise that public transport is very bad in the US. Much is written about that.
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It’s weird, riding the bus has a negative image but riding the train doesn’t. But yes, our public transit sucks.
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That frankly needs to change. Because it is an American oddity that isn’t very positive at all (or sustainable). People shouldn’t take the car when they can take a bus for cheaper, if the logistics is decent enough anyway.
Go bus ! But enough about that.
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Yeah they just have to sell a sausage roll and a packet of crisps per hour to cover wages and operating costs the amount they charge for everything 
Maybe it’s horses for courses… I agree there is a culture that exists that looks down on the use of public transport but there are havens where public transport is pretty good and broadly used, San Francisco and Boston are great and pretty good (respectively) for public transport - Irvine and Atlanta (possibly - only been there a couple of times), less so… I’ve never been to NY but imagine it is pretty good for public transport- w/o any stigma associated with use.
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Yeah, I assume it’s far better in the coastal cities.
