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Re: gas up 7 cents

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From: DGS
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:30
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Jason Cormier wrote:

> On 7/21/03 20:32, in article 3F1C861D.9020902@hotmail.com, "Mr Frederick"
> <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>Um, say what?  You been hanging around Downtown Eastside and sharing in
>>>the goodies or something?
>>>
>>>The American market is 10x as big, but also has at least 10x the infra-
>>>structure to maintain
>>
>>You forget, it is in a physically smaller country, as well.
> 
> Canada is a whole 9% larger that the US. You also forget that a far larger
> portion of the US is in habited, and thus in need of development, than
> Canada.

Correct.  And the size of the country is a specious comparison as well.
The UK and Germany are both much, much smaller than Canada, and much
more densely populated, but with significantly *higher* gasoline taxes.
-- 
DGS
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