price of gas going up?

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That is only on the surface, its not until we start comparing American life styles to European lifestyles.

Lets look at the physical geography of the USA to Europe:

http://goeurope.about.com/od/europeanmap...on-map.htm provides an overlay of the USA and Europe. The whole of Europe is 'tiny' compared to the whole of USA.

Um . . . that is not a full map of Europe. I mean, the same hold's true: Size and population density are important in such matters. But the two maps, the one of Europe and the One of the U.S. are not complete. Greece, for instance, is not on that map.