Other countries pay 7 dollars a gallon for fuel, the US pays 4 a gallon. How do other countries function with such high fuel prices? How do things get transported? How does the economy run?
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Prices in the UK at the moment are about £1.80/L, so about 8.5 dollars per US gallon.
We generally operate smaller, more fuel efficient cars. We drive shorter distances – our towns and cities are more compact, and distances between things are often smaller.
And while fuel is more expensive we have other areas where our costs are much lower. Yes, I might have to spend a couple of thousand more in fuel per year than an American, but I don’t have to worry about crippling healthcare bills, our cost of living in terms of rent is on average lower, etc. A large part of that higher fuel cost is tax, which in theory buys us a range of other benefits such as transport infrastructure work, public transport subsidisation, etc.
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