> >> On 5/20/2012 3:43 PM, emoneyjoe wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 11:41:53 -0500, "Tom $herman (-_-)"
> >>> <""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI$southslope.net">   wrote:

> >>>> On 5/14/2012 12:53 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>> The California average was $4.23 a gallon Thursday, up more than a dime
> >>>>> from the end of April. San Jose-area motorists were paying $4.23, San
> >>>>> Francisco $4.30 and those around Oakland $4.22.
> >>>>> Nationally, drivers are paying $3.74 a gallon, down 6 cents from last
> >>>>> week.[...]

> >>>> Wah, wah, wah.  Gasoline needs to be at about $12/gallon to pay for all
> >>>> the externalities.

> >>>> Quit whining about being able to buy heavily subsidized fuel, while
> >>>> driving on heavily subsidized roads, and parking in heavily subsidized
> >>>> lots.

> >>>> For all the anti-socialist rhetoric, you people sure want a lot of
> >>>> government handouts.

> >>>          You have a sick idea about what socialism is,
> >>> gasoline prices are more dependent on where
> >>> it has to be transported to, have you looked at
> >>> the production, refining and consumption for
> >>> California?       I haven't, but it would show if it
> >>> is taxes or availability that makes prices higher.

> >> Do you realize the US has over 700 foreign military bases, almost all in
> >> regions that are major sources of hydrocarbon extraction?

> >> The northern Europeans pay the equivalent of $8 to $12 per gallon, yet
> >> they have a better quality of life than USians.

> > Please define "better quality of life."

> That is obvious.

> > I happen to think that my quality of life is far better than that of
> > Europeans -- and I have a number of European friends who would agree
> > with me. They spend as much time here in the Us as they can.

> All my European relatives that moved here ended up moving back, and were
> glad of it.