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How much did you pay for gas today?

How much did you pay for gas today?

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Old May 1st 2014, 11:18 pm
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
They put a different engine in US models, or is it because engines in the UK and Europe are smaller? .... Your rhetoric on cars sold in America makes it sound like you think that car manufacturers are deliberately foisting uneconomic cars on the American. Would you care to share your rationale for the manufacturers engaging in such irrational behaviour?
It's done for both technical (AKI is lower in America, requiring greater capacity engines to get equivalent power) as well as Americans stupidly buying into the philosophy of 'go big or go home'. If you had a v8 6.0L truck available compared to a 2.0L turbo, the market here would always go for the big muscle engine.
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Old May 2nd 2014, 12:42 am
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Default Re: How much did you pay for gas today?

Originally Posted by hungryhorace
How are people affording to travel to work at those prices? I know British prices are far higher, but cars there are exceptionally more efficient and offset the higher price.
Transit, moving closer to work and such. Its becoming cheaper to live in the city now once you account for gas.

Lower income folks generally don't drive has insurance is high here, gas is high, buying a car is high etc.
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