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Originally Posted by Born To Be Fly
"I know it's high now"
No +@!* you do. I hate this guy, can't wait til he's done.
Originally Posted by kdwallace
^ it's actually more than that now. That is probably from near the end of last year.
London is more expensive than here generally - but not by much.
I filled up today for $7.75 a gallon. Cost me $140 to fill up my car.
I'm glad I do use my bike to get around - I don't do many miles in the car so that should last most of the month. Still hurts when you see the numbers going up though.
how do the people there even afford it??..or do alot of people not drive there..cause i would imagine if gas went to that price here,that the average person wouldnt be able to drive..
I was wondering that recently - about gas and also just other stuff like food and clothes - which can often be twice as expensive for the same thing.
It's probably a combination of things - partly you just get used to it - it's not like you have a choice - and partly that the UK is a less consumeristsociety - to an extent - and especially the older generation.
People just buy less stuff - just the way things are I guess. They just have less disposable income. It is strange how incomes are so much lower on average andthings cost more so you would think that it wouldn't work - you would expect if things cost more that salaries would go up... Doesn't work that waythough.
I sometimes hear the average salary of someone in the US who isn't even supposed to be well off and it sounds like good money - your expectations and thewhole 'American Dream' thing make it necessary to make more money to be 'comfortable'.
Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with that - it's just a difference in culture.
The other reason is that this is a much smaller country - people generally don't drive as far (average is about 12,000 miles a year) and cars are quite abit more economical here - 30mpg+ is the norm so that helps.
Originally Posted by illmaticsoulchild
Bush is probably like, "I have a solid strategery to counteract these prices in my 3rd term."