It still hurts to pay the prices we are paying, but check these numbers out. They were part of an article on MSNBC These are the prices as converted into US dollars.
Netherlands $6.77 per gallon
Norway $6.56 per gallon
Denmark $6.29 per gallon
Belgium $6.02 per gallon
United Kingdom $6.02 per gallon
I am not sure how their wages compare to ours, but I wonder what a good pair of walking sneakers goes for over there
one of the big problems we have with fuel prices and such here in the states is how wide we like to spread out. we put our cities far apart, our country is large, we like large vehicles and we don't have particularly efficent mass-transit. (Some cities are good but from city to city is where we really suffer, and if you live in the suburbs as so many of us do...there's no hope).
