>>Fill up over here if you want real pain Tamar.
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>Yeah, we were just in Norway and Iceland, and the gas worked out to $9-$10 per gallon. Of course, everything else was more expensive than at home, too, so that made up for it. <vbg>

But then the distances being so much shorter also eased the pain somewhat, I suppose. And also the way streets are built, where shortcuts are quite possible - you don't have to drive around to get from point A to point B; there are no enclaves with only one entrance, and chunks of asphalt where the car trip from one to the other is 200 times longer than the straight line between them. The urban planning doesn't create hundreds of cul-de-sacs.