Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

I think you're way off base. This is about government sponsored social programs and economics, and the taxes needed to support that spending - not race, as you indicate.

Much of Europe is heading in the austerity direction. They have learned that a diminishing population of workers and earlier retirements, free healthcare, to name just a few, have caused the taxation sytem to spiral upward as reflected in the fuel costs you quoted. Those three items drive taxes collected at the fuel pump in European countries.

We haven't learned that yet as a people in America. That is that social entitlement programs of all sorts are what drives taxation. As reflected in taxes collected at the fuel pump.

Public transportation of all description is a net tax increase to the general population. That is why financially it doesn't work and won't work here.

If you want lower taxes at the gas/diesel pump, cut the social programs. Since a country's social (welfare) programs are what drives taxes at the pump.

Public transportation fuels increases in taxation, not less, and has no effect on diminishing the costs of fuel. That dog won't hunt.