How about VAT taxes and government taxes and regs that make gasoline nearly double the price in the US?
Europeans don’t drive because they’ve been socially engineered and funneled to the state’s preferred travel method. They don’t want to drive clown cars.
Europeans are poor compared to Americans. They live in homes that American poor would find too small.
Those countries are more crowded, so likely land is expensive and homes smaller. I wouldn't necessarily say that the Swiss, for example, are poorer than American. They may just have their wealth in another form.
True! Europeans are obedient little serfs when it comes to owning automobiles and using trains
Depends
Firstly, "europeans" is a wide term -- Romanians and Bulgarians are definitely poorer than Americans by nearly all standards. Poles as well, mostly. Also, I'd say the English (after living there for a few years) except for history (they have no culture now, despite them berating Americans for not having any....)
But Luxembourg and the Swiss have a high standard of living
Also, the size of the homes, while important, is not the sole criterion for comparison