From: Gene McAloon 

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:07:59 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>> Small cars have been popular in Europe for the last fifty years and even
before
>> WWII. There are many reasons for it, but gas prices were not the cause since
gas
>> prices rose dramatically only in the '70s.
>
>Bollox. It has b*gger all to do with the price per se & everything to do
>with the tax on the fuel imposed precisely to lower fuel use via
>"economic incentives".

If you are referring to the period prior to the '70s, you are wrong. Governments
were actively encouraging car use back then. They were not building all
those super highways for nothing. The price of gas, particularly in the
sense of using
price to discouraging its use, didn't become policy until after the alleged
oil shortage of the '70s.

But how could you be expected to remember that? You were probably just out
of diapers at that time.

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