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Old 25-03.-2008, 08:52 AM   #16
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What, that at least one person in the US drives a sensible car?
LOL. We had a thread (buried in the spam) about this in the bike cafe....
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Old 25-03.-2008, 09:00 AM   #17
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What, that at least one person in the US drives a sensible car?
You should come to the US and see just how many sensible cars are on the roads. There are not so many larger SUV's running around anymore, especially since our gas prices have hit all time highs, albeit not as high as Europe. What is the average price of gas in Australia? I haven't been there since 1980 but it seemed pretty comparable to US prices at the time. Seemed that there were a lot of Range Rovers and Land Cruisers running around too.
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You should come to the US and see just how many sensible cars are on the roads. There are not so many larger SUV's running around anymore, especially since our gas prices have hit all time highs, albeit not as high as Europe. What is the average price of gas in Australia? I haven't been there since 1980 but it seemed pretty comparable to US prices at the time. Seemed that there were a lot of Range Rovers and Land Cruisers running around too.

About A$1.30-1.40 a litre, much cheaper than Europe, more expensive than yours. Cars in Australia are much smaller on average than in the US, but paradoxically there seems to be a late influx into this country of big boofy cars designed for the US market.
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Old 25-03.-2008, 12:32 PM   #19
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You should come to the US and see just how many sensible cars are on the roads.

Been there twice in '03, once in '04 and once in '06. Only ever to CA and FL. Big cars, biiiig cars. Even in CA. In FL I seemed to be the only person on foot.
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Understatement of the day, LOL.

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