[corlorde]

In France and Germany, a gallon of gasoline sells for as much as $6, with taxes accounting for about 80 percent of that.

Well there you go...all we need is higher taxes, that's the cure all for every problem.

Not.

It's amazing how people can work in socialism to every "piece" they manage to spew forth,

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In France and Germany, a gallon of gasoline sells for as much as $6, with taxes accounting for about 80 percent of that.

Yes, and in France and Germany people spend their discretionary income buying gasoline, when they could be spending it on education, internet connections, books, entertainment, or whatever else it takes for an individual to live his life as an individual, the way he wants to live it, and not the way some corrupt socialist government wants him to live it.