Originally Posted by afterburn81

It costs the US currently around 120-130 per barrel which results in around 4 bucks a gallon for us and I think it's a little cheaper per gallon for JP. So my point is that I have been to Europe and other parts of the world and for many many years they have been paying more than our current fuel prices for a gallon or equivalent of gasoline. And when you go to those countries they use those smart cars, everyone and their grandmother rides a scooter and many of their cars run on diesel. And when I'm there it seems that no one really complains all that much about "The Fuel Prices". And you never hear on the news about the dilemma in other parts of the world about rising gas prices. Now I could totally be way off but if they have been doing it for many years, why the heck can't we? And I was also wondering about aviation around the world. If they are paying and have been paying what we now pay for fuel for many years, what are they doing to keep the costs down so that we don't hear about all the turmoil in foreign airlines? Hopefully I did not offend anyone. Just a little something that I had bottling up.