On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT), PeterL
wrote:

On Aug 18, 12:02*pm, Hatunen wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:42:11 -0700 (PDT), PeterL

wrote:
On Aug 18, 10:03*am, Dave Smith wrote:
European trains and public transportation are supported by huge tax
subsidies. *Also Europe as a whole are smaller geographically than
either the US or Canada. *So the two cannot be compared.

That's a misconception. Taken as a whole Europe is not all that
much smaller than the USA. The road distance from Nordkapp to
Gibralter is on the order of 6000km or about 1440 miles, and the
air distance from Lisbon to Kiev is abbout 2100 miles. From
Lisbon to Moscow is about 2425 miles.

The area of Europe is about 3,930,000 sq mi while the area of the
Lower 48 states is about 3,119,884 sq mi. There's some mushiness
in these figures due to land area or water area, and all, but
clearly the Lower 48 and Europe are of comparable size.

I should've said western europe.

What do you man by "Western Europe"? The area outside the Iron
Curtain?

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