Isn't most of the difference tax? Your mass transit systems are very good in comparison to the US. I can catch a bus to get me around town but the bus stop is 12 miles away which defeats the purpose of using a bus in the first place.
If I want to catch a passenger train, I need to drive 40 miles to catch a train that only goes to Chicago or Toledo (nothing goes north or south). And the train comes by once a day and is oftentimes late by as much as 8 hours. (seriously) And there is no train station. (Think of parking your car in a field and waiting up to 8 hours for a train that stops on the tracks... more than a little crazy.) So for me, getting around by train or bus is not viable. A bicycle would be more practical. Hence most Americans (at least in flyover country) get around via a car. Dave On 3/6/2014 11:52 AM, Peter Blodow wrote: > Never mind that price, we pay 65% more for diesel over here, and it's > still cheaper than gasoline! > > Peter Blodow > Bavaria, Germany > > Am 06.03.2014 17:40, schrieb Dave Cole: >> I'm not sure they are all that busy any longer. >> The price of diesel has to really hurt. >> $4.30 / gal has been common around here recently. They could easily go >> through 10 gallons per hours. >> >> Dave >> >> On 3/6/2014 5:09 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> There is an Amish machine shop on the north side of Portland, IN that is >>>> all driven by hydraulics. There is a large diesel outback (semi truck >>>> size) that drives a large hydraulic pump >>>> that pressurizes an extensive piping system in the probably 10,000 sq ft >>>> shop to power all of the machines. >>>> >>>> I would not want to pay their diesel bill. >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>> Gotta figure they're doing well enough to keep that puppy running. ;-) >>> >>> Mark >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to >>> Perforce. >>> With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. >>> Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and >>> the >>> freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. >>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to >> Perforce. >> With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. >> Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the >> freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. > With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. > Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the > freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
