gas prices (kinda OT)

"Peter Bozz" > wrote in message
...
>
> >>It doesn't seem then that you have a flat rate "road tax" as they do
> >>here (next to all the other sundry taxes, such as property, sales,
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > In any event, we pay considerably less fuel tax than Europeans pay, this
is
> > why we have Suburbans and Hummers trolling the highways, and you guys
find a
> > way to make due with Geo Metros and other micro minis that Americans do
not
> > seem to tolerate very well. The argument has long been that if we paid
the
> > same fuel taxes that you pay, we would change the way we drive.
>
> Logic dictates that, yes, you will. Chances are you'd be less likely to
> buy a Suburban than a Japanese minivan. That will keep the gasoline
> demand down a bit. But hey, it's your money. If you want to keep giving
> bundles of it to the Middle East, Venezuela and other place that the
> average American (and European) can't even find on the map, that's your
> prerogative. I hear the Burj Al Arab Hotel is a very expensive piece of
> architecture.
>
> >
> > I drive a 3 Series as a daily driver, my wife gets by nicely with a
Mazda
> > minivan, my daughter has a Toyota truck, and we keep a Jeep in the side
yard
> > for weekend driving. As you can see, I keep several cars around and
don't
> > worry much about paying road taxes.
> >
> >
>
> If you kept these cars in Holland, they would set you back at least
> $300+ a month (rough guestimation: the road tax on a diesel powered Land
> Cruiser alone is about $150 a month).
>
> And that's before you even drove a single mile with any of them.



Geez, I hope you guys don't churn this into yet another reason to hate
Americans.