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>"So... you should be gloating, not complaining."
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>The internal combustion engine would never have been used in the automobile if gas was $4.79 a gallon in 1912, the price I saw in Seattle today for premium.
>It's costs $65.00 a tankful in my Westfalia, which I haven't driven for a year due to the cost of gas.�
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>Those other countries tax fuel heavily to pay for socialist programs like universal worthless government run health care systems.�
>America the last hundred years was built by the automobile . Automobiles were first made affordable by Henry Ford, and gas was affordable.�
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>You are now spending more on gas and less on maintenance if you are in my income bracket. Which helps to account for how my used VW parts sales slumped since it went over $4.00 a gallon last year.�
>Fuel is plentiful, there is no shortage.�
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>Please don't tell me I have to gloat. Our economy is being dragged down by the high cost of fuel. It's fine for those other countries, it too high for ours.�
>We don't have the same transportation systems as Europeans. America is the original �automobile culture, we depend on autos as there are not alternatives for most people.�
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>Soon, I will only be able to afford gas for a moped.
>Now days I sit around the campfire-in my backyard.
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>Robert
>1982 Westfalia "Mothball"