Most countries seem to be higher than us, in gas/fuel cost & some much cheaper than us too... IMHFO our current leadership, is trying to turn us into Europe West & have their same type healthcare & gas/fuel costs/prices... A little background, current history... Here our gas was $1.89 in 2007 in the Rancho Murieta {one of the more expensive areas for fuel cost in that area}, in the Sacramento Ca. area, just before I moved to Sonora @ that time people were pissed about how high the gas was...LOL... Little did anyone know, how high it would go & it's still climbing... Our US economy & discretionary income is truly based, on fuel costs & on travel, food & shipping costs, for those good, has gone up some have doubled in price, because of transportation costs/expenses... We are a truly mobile nation of 100's of millions of car owners, it is 3000 miles across or country, coast to coast, sometimes more/sometimes less, depending where you start & end the crossing... We aren't a little tiny country {much like Canada in size, but we are 9x the population}, we're not like most of the small European countries... Most of the US has very little/few & really no convenient, mass public transit to speak of , especially in most rural areas, that make up about 80% of the country... Mass transit only exists & is really only used in the coastal & inner-city regions... Calif. is one of the highest always in average gas/fuel costs, mostly because of added road & social taxes... It was about $0.66+ cents per gallon, just in added Calif. taxes, about 1/3 of the price, at that time in 2007, for the 87 octane cheap stuff & it has over-doubled in price, here in Sonora Ca. now it's @ $4.09 for 87 octane cheapo gas, the pisser is $4.29+ for Diesel #2, earlier it was as high as $4.39 for 87 oct. gas & $4.59 for Diesel #2 average... Diesel was only about $1.59 per gal. in 2007, in just under about 5 years time it almost tripled, here in Calif. anyway, it started going up rapidly after the 2008 election cycles.... It wasn't all that long ago, our country was thriving/booming economy, construction was booming, business's were thriving, things were going great, people were happy, people were working & they were spending money, New cars were being sold at record #'s & very little welfare & much lower unemployment {compared to today anyway}... I could actually fill my gas tank for $20, now it takes over $90 for the same 20 gallons... my $0.02 cents
