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"This is crazy," exclaimed one Norwegian tourist after being charged NOK 12.14 per liter at a gas station in Kjøllefjord in Finnmark. That amounts to about USD 7.40 per gallon.

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OSLO (AFP) - In Norway, many motorists are up in arms over why they have to pay the highest petrol (gasoline) prices in Europe when the country is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and a recent tax hike has done little to cool tempers.

"It is really strange: we have lots of oil and we're a rich country. Why do we have to pay so much?" asks Per-Arne Skjerpingstad, a 38-year-old hospital porter as he fills up the tank of his Peugeot 307 at an Oslo gas station for 750 kroner (94 euros, 148 dollars).

Diesel costs 14.23 kroner (1.78 euros, 2.82 dollars) a litre (quarter gallon) and 95 unleaded 13.84 kroner, putting it at the top of the European league, EU figures show.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080722/bs_afp/norwayoilpricetaxclimate

looks real cheap... if you were Pinocchio you wouldn't be able to fit into a room...

Norway has some of the highest gasoline prices in the WORLD....

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Apples and oranges. The scale is different.

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Endoscopy.....you're being disingenuous when you talk about Norway and oil drilling and implying it has been a cure all. It hasn't. I see where you've gotten your information, however, because this Salon article dated June 25, 2008 calls John McCain out on his deception and spin on the topic.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2008/06/25/mccain_offshore_oil/

If solutions to our energy crisis were truly the concern of the American public, looking to other countries isn't a bad idea. Some have made some amazing advances. Take Iceland and their geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. Clean burning, very cheap, entirely renewable energy that, despite your claims to the contrary, work very well. In fact, more than 80% of Iceland's energy comes from these two sources and they are actively working to reach 100% within the next few years. How, if what you said earlier is true, could that be possible? If, as you claimed, alternative energies don't work or are far too cost prohibitive to explore, how has the entire country of Iceland managed to do this and prosper? And prosper they have. Their economy is one of the healthiest in the world, while ours is one of the sickest at present. Could it be that converting and committing to a clean burning, renewable alternative is the answer to putting more money back into the pockets of the average citizen? Considering the energy is cheaper and not price fixed by corrupt corporations, that might just be the case.

Its truly sad that we are so advanced in so many areas, yet in technology we refuse to keep pace with the world. It makes no logical sense. Just goes to show how powerful corporate America is in their ability to brainwash the masses into believing that getting less and paying more is the preferable option. I just hope those of you who refuse to open your eyes wake up to the fact that your loyalty to the American way of procrastination earns nothing but multi-billion dollar profits for the CEO's of Exxon, Chevron, et al.

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Tell that to the Bush administrations analysts who studied the matter and found that "drill drill drill" won't do **** to lower fuel prices.

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