OMFG Gas!

motordavid · #10 07-06-2006, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scottie

I only have the time to take trips of 5000 miles when we take our holidays mind you the price on mainland Europe is slightly cheaper than UK prices.

You lucky that you have the time to do 3500 mile coast to coast trips I don't I'm working most of the time.

so I can afford to have my X5

Fiona,
I was being slightly facetious...it must get lost in translation.
My point was, we Yanks are aware that gas is very expensive
per gallon, by comparison in most Euro countries.

My other point is that the Continental US is a Big Country and
we don't have the train system most of Euro has; thus, we drive or, fly.

Unless I'm way off, your "avg. Euro" is not hopping into their car and
doing 1500 mile long weekends.

"5000 mile vacations"?! It's only a thou from Inverness to south Germany,
or 600 miles from Aberdeen to Paris. I suspect your normal Euro tourist is
not ripping off 5K Mile driving vacays.

My being retired has little to do with price of gas, trips, etc, imo.
Cheers,
mD