The wholesale gasoline price in Great Britain is pretty much exactly the same price as it is in the US. The retail price in Britain is considerably higher because they tax it at about $8 a gallon.
Socialist countries do not like people driving about on their own. They want everyone in cattle cars so that they can go where the government wants them to go and when the government allows them to go.
Obama would just love it if gasoline were $12 a gallon here in the US. That would force Americans out of their cars and into the buses and trains that are run by the government.
Yes, P-M. The price of crude is roughly the same worldwide. The process to refine is the same. Transportation is the same. The equipment price is roughly the same.
There is only one reason for Europe’s gasoline to be double and triple the price of US gasoline.
Government taxation.
While liberals want everyone in mass transportation, they refuse to acknowledge the huge differences between US and Europe with its densely populated countries.
I guarantee you that if it were profitable to be running a passenger service between Cincy and Cleveland, then some businessman would be doing it.