*"...most Euro countries impose 50%-100% tax per gallon. .."

That is indeed so. Where I live (Finland), long winters literally annihilate roads if they are not maintained regularly. Tax money is used to maintain road safety. There is also another reason for high fuel taxation in EU. That reason can be summed up as "damage control". If, for any reason, gas prices start to seriously damage the inner workings of EU, EU can use emergency tax reductions to ease things up for the logistic companies. It's like a buffer zone of sorts.

That makes more sense. Initially when this thread started, and so many people chimed in with 'what are you complaining about, we're paying a lot more...'  I was left under the impression that somehow US has that much better of a deal on purchasing oil then anyone else, or perhaps at the expense of everyone else.

Now that I know it's more self inflicted (within the domestic policies of each country) rather then US inflicted, I don't feel guilty about it.  I'm hoping at least people got to have a vote in it.

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