It was my understanding that Europeans walk and ride bikes more often and don't use as much gas per capita. Our whole infrastructure and gas dependence was based on the Interstate Highway Act. Communities here much more spread out. Your prices higher due to less consumption?
Norwegian people do consume much gas/diesel. Almost every family has one or more cars, motorbikes, boats, snowmobiles. The reason why gas/oil is expencive is the charges/fee . Government is so greedy.
example. An audi a4 is 20.000$ in US.
same car is 70.000 in norway. So the car is actually not expencive but the fees/charges u need to pay to government. And if i buy a car in US and want to have it here in norway, i need to pay so much charges it will be more expencive than buying car in norway.
Norway , one of biggest fish export countries in the world. Since its so much fish here, fish should be pretty cheap. But forget it. Its expencive like hell. Patethic