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| 13 hours ago | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @JonathanReez: Indeed, if Europeans think that Americans writ large travel significantly more than they do, that's overactive imagination. But we do drive more, because a much greater fraction of said travel is by personal vehicle, and so the answer reasonably says the typical American adult is more affected by the price at the pump. | |
| 14 hours ago | comment | added | JonathanReez | @BenVoigt you are right, but my point still stands that Americans don't really drive all that much. Europeans love to imagine the insane American commutes, but that's just cope. | |
| 19 hours ago | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @JonathanReez: You're confusing "shortest" with "briefest". Private car ownership = more driving and also leads to less time commuting -- no travel to a transit hub, no waiting for the particular shared conveyance to leave, no time transferring between bus and subway. The world-wide amount of driving, median per capita, is zero. | |
| Apr 13 at 18:06 | comment | added | JonathanReez | “Americans drive an inordinately large amount” => that’s a myth, see webfs.oecd.org/els-com/Family_Database/…. Americans have some of the shortest commutes in the developed world. There are stories about “super commuters” and whatnot but the average American doesn’t do that much driving on a daily basis. | |
| Apr 13 at 15:47 | history | edited | In Hoc Signo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added explanation of how oil price fluctuations especially effect the poor.
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| Apr 11 at 10:28 | comment | added | sfxedit | You should - And ordinary Americans don't like when every day items become more and more costly (unaffordable). Thus, from the politicians perspective, high oil prices are bad because it makes people angry at them and costs them votes. | |
| Apr 9 at 15:03 | history | answered | In Hoc Signo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |