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The EU is the world’s largest oil-importing region and the second largest oil consuming market in the world. With the exception of North Sea Brent oil production - divided between Norway and the UK - Europe must rely on imports from Russia (29%). Other FSU nations, North Africa, and the Middle East make up the remainder of petroleum imports.Oil Import Dependency Percentage, 2016The transportation sector accounts for about three-quarters of the EU’s final consumption of petroleum products, and demand in this sector has been falling among Europe’s major economies.This does not account for the great disparity in petrol/gasoline prices at the pump between the US and EU. Pricing represents a difference in tax structure on every gallon or liter. When Norway and the UK are producers but pay a substantial premium it is because of taxes levied on gasoline.The purpose of a federal excise tax on gasoline in the US was to fund infrastructure projects through the highway trust fund. This trust fund receives revenue from mainly the excise tax on gasoline and uses the revenue to pay for transportation projects through grants to state and local governments. Likewise, the additional taxes collected by states were to maintain roads and major arteries through their borders.Gasoline prices within the United States are not uniform. Currently, the US federal government levies a $0.184 per gallon tax on gasoline. In addition, state and local governments levy an average tax per gallon of about $0.35. This is an average combined rate of about $0.53 per gallon.On top of excise taxes, all OECD countries levy a value-added tax (VAT) on gasoline consumption. In the United States, only a few states (Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan) levy an additional sales tax on gasoline purchases. This means that the difference between taxes paid on gasoline in the United States and other OECD countries is even larger than the data on just excise taxes implies.The contract in the US between the citizenry was broken by many states who raise taxes on petroleum products to make up for deficits in spending. It has become an easy tax like those in most European nations to generate additional discretionary funds.HIGH TAXES ON GASOLINE CREATERevenue for projects that have nothing to do with transportationHigher prices for trucked goodsReliance on public transportationRestrictions on the mobility of the populationA surcharge on automobile ownership and operationA means of social engineeringAdded penalties on the impoverished

By focusing on generational theft and burdens placed on the younger generation of American college grads as a result of Obamacare, debt and economic stagnation.For starters, look at the raw deal young Americans are getting from Obamacare. Those who are 26 and over (or younger if they aren't on their parents' plan) have to pay twice as much for health insurance because the law mandates that the difference in cost between younger and older policy holders cannot exceed 3 to 1 when actuarial determined charges approached a differential of 6 to 1. That is essentially a doubling of premiums under Obamacare and why the ACA will implode without the enrollment of young healthy Americans who will pay the premiums without using the product. This allowed the Democrats to claim that for many Americans their medical insurance rates would fall under Obamacare. But since there's no free lunch, the cost for the lower rates for older high end users of healthcare fall to the young and healthy.Harvard Study Finds “Striking” Rejection of Obamacare by Young AmericansAdd this to the high unemployment and under employment for new college grads and young Americans have to start wondering why the President they heavily supported is sticking it to them.A Staggering Look At The Rise Of College UnderemploymentThe end of the great recession hasn't resulted in the usually expect 5%+ historical recoveries with rapid returns on jobs. So what has the job market looked like for recent college grads? Half of them are unemployed or underemployed and working at jobs that didn't require college degrees.That's despite a 1 trillion dollar stimulus bill.Republicans can focus on the negative impact that Democratic leadership has had on economic recovery.The right measure and comparison for Obama’s record is not to compare the recovery to the recession, but to compare Obama’s recovery with other recoveries from other recessions since the Great Depression. By that measure, what is clear is that Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, worse than what every other President who has faced a recession has achieved since the Great Depression.In the 10 previous recessions since the Great Depression, prior to this last recession, the economy recovered all jobs lost during the recession after an average of 25 months after the prior jobs peak (when the recession began), according to the records kept by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. So the job effects of prior post Depression recessions have lasted an average of about 2 years. But under President Obama, by April, 2013, 64 months after the prior jobs peak, almost 5½ years, we still have not recovered all of the recession’s job losses. In April, 2013, there were an estimated 135.474 million American workers employed, still down about 2.6 million jobs from the prior peak of 138.056 million in January, 2008.Economically, Could Obama Be America's Worst President?Obamacare is suppressing jobs by incentivizing companies to not hire full-time workers, the so called 29er and 49er effect, limited workers to less than 30 hours a week and limiting the number of full-time workers to less than 50 to avoid Obamacare penalties. Obamacare taxes on medical device companies have also move these high paying jobs overseas.ObamaCare and the '29ers'ObamaCare tax cost 33,000 jobs, medical trade group saysDemocratic led EPA policies have cost jobs. With a nod and a wink to the far left environmentalists, Obama's EPA has tried to implement Cap and Trade policies by fiat with the expected negative economic impact.EPA's new regulations will hit states trying to get back on their feet: Current announcements and EPA projections indicate that EPA regulations have a dramatic impact on states reeling from economic hardship.Ohio: 2,894 MW retired, 8.6 percent of state total generating capacity.West Virginia: 2,448 MW retired, 14 percent of state total generating capacity.Indiana: 2,168 MW retired, 7.5 percent of state total generating capacity.Tennessee: 1,376 MW retired, 6.2 percent of state total generating capacity.Missouri: 1,325 MW retired, 6.3 percent of state total generating capacity.Wisconsin: 902 MW retired, 5 percent of state total generating capacity.This is a cautionary tale. Air quality has dramatically increased over the past couple decades and air quality will continue to improve. But we have to ask if these new regulations go too far. We are enduring a very difficult time economically and these regulations will further increase the price of energy and make it more difficult to do business in the United States. This is no way to try to get the economy back on track.Obama Pushing a Stealth Cap-and-Trade Policy - US NewsOpinion: Obama’s EPA as an Employment Prevention Agency - Rep. Don YoungEPA. Obama's coal-hearted job killerYoung Americans are paying the price. They are paying more for health insurance under Obamacare so that older Americans can pay less. The growing deficit places the burden of the borrowing on their shoulders and when polled, most young Americans don't feel that they will receive the same Social Security benefits that their parents enjoyed.Current policies will continue to shift resources from the young to the old. Moreover, these policies are ultimately unsustainable, so that when today’s young people retire, they will not be able to count on full benefits. Without a change in policy, in 40 years Social Security will only be able to pay three-quarters of the payouts that have been promised. The gap cannot be closed by tax increases alone without sizable spending cuts.Should All Young Americans Be Fiscal Conservatives?

Common fact-checked Trump statements as POTUS?In no particular order:Immigration ban rollout and payment of wallSanctuary cities and crime4th quarter economic statisticsTreatment by pressLeaksHis RatingsElection ResultsUrban lifestyle in diverse neighborhoodOrigins of ISISRussian RelationsConstitution & Separation of PowersSoS & Senator Hillary ClintonACA premiums and plansPrice Reductions of new government planesImmigration and CrimesUPDATE Wed Feb 22: 100 days of Trump claims -- 35 days, Washinggton Post reports 113 false or misleading claims by Trump.The most frequent topic of these claims is immigration, which came up 24 times. Other frequent topics are biographical record (18 claims) and jobs (17 claims)Source: Washington PostTWEET FACT CHECKS: Week ending February 17 from WASHINGTON POSTMainstream media is financially hurtingNoInformation leaks about Flynn were illegalNo72 individuals from banned countries were implicated in terrorist activitiesNoErroneously took credit for routine arrest of criminal aliensFebruary 16, unscheduled news conference1.0 ACCOMPLISHMENTS: "I don’t think there’s ever been a president elected who in this short period of time has done what we’ve done.”“Difficult to fact check but the "president’s tumultuous first weeks have been marked by controversial executive orders and conflicts with the media" and courts. ““He has issued more executive orders that have met with judicial pushback, populist protest, Congressional no commitment (funding promises) “2.0 APPROVAL RATING IS RISING“Trump has a tendency to focus only on polls that are good for him. Rasmussen has a right-leaning bias… Other polls show Trump with significantly lower approval ratings, such as Gallup (40 percent) and Pew Research Center (39 percent).”“Trump’s overall job approval is much lower than those of prior presidents in their first weeks in office,”… (46%) strongly disapprove of his job performance, while 29% strongly approve.”3.0 ECONOMY & ISIS[Because of Trump]“The stock market has hit record numbers.”"This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under President Barack Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble,” [but now takes credit]”“Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, ...”"Trump keeps giving himself credit for business decisions made before he became president.”“To be honest, I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.”" — Trump claimed he was developing “a plan for the defeat of ISIS,” the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.”“But the economy was in pretty good shape when Trump became president, especially compared to the economic crisis that Obama inherited in 2009… (Trump has given himself credit for the January numbers, but the data was collected when Obama still held office.)”[No specifics about ISIS and destroyer of the East Coast]”4.0 ELECTION“We got 306 [electoral college votes] I… guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.”"This statement is wrong on several levels.""Trump ended up with 304 electoral votes""Triumph did get more raw votes than any other Republican candidate in history — but he also earned 2.9 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. Another 8 million people voted for third-party or write-in candidates."“… since 1984, Trump’s electoral college win ranks seventh. “5.0 INITIATIVES“We’ve ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens, and we have ordered an end to the policy of catch and release on the… ““There is limited research on the impact of sanctuary policies and crime. And the research that does exist, challenges Trump’s claim. ““There’s no official definition of “sanctuary,” but it generally refers to rules restricting state and local governments from alerting federal authorities about people who may be in the country illegally. Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility,… “6.0 IMMIGRATION BAN“In fact, we had to go quicker than we thought because of the bad decision we received from a circuit that has been overturned at a record number...”“Trump is referring to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which ruled against reinstating his travel ban. ““But there are other ways to slice the data, and it’s important to put this number into context. ““None of the data supports Trump’s contention that the court is “in chaos” and “in turmoil.”“Each court’s reversal rate changes every year, so it’s easy to cherry-pick this data. ““Most cases that are reviewed by the Supreme Court are reversed... ““But the number of reversed cases represented only one-fifteenth of 1 percent of the total number of appeals ““Moreover, the 9th Circuit rules on more cases in general. According to SCOTUSblog: ““Far more cases come to the Court from the Ninth Circuit than any other court, and — ““not surprisingly — Ninth Circuit rulings make up a sizeable portion of the docket of argued and decided cases — 75 cases, or 25.7% for the last four Terms including the current session.”7.0 PIPELINE“We have also taken steps to begin construction of the Keystone Pipeline and Dakota Access Pipelines... measures in place to require American steel for American pipelines.”“Trump, in saying “thousands and thousands of jobs,” leaves himself some wiggle room here. ““(He’d previously incorrectly said 28,000 jobs.) ““Moreover, some of these jobs have already been created...”8.0 MEDIA“You [the media] have a lower approval rate than Congress. I think that’s right.”“... It is not. The public’s trust in the media has certainly fallen over the years. ““But a 2016 Gallup poll shows that Congress is viewed positively by 9 percent of respondents, compared to 20 percent for newspapers and 21 percent for television… ““[besides Congress] -- only “big business” ranks lower than the media… “9.0 LEAKS“When WikiLeaks, ... not giving classified information.”“WikiLeaks actually released hundreds of thousands of classified State Department cables, in a significant blow to U.S. diplomacy.”“Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates.”“Trump overstates the disclosure about Clinton reportedly getting a single debate question… on the water crisis...”“There’s no indication Clinton was told this information, but in any case it’s a pretty obvious question for a debate being held in Flint. “10. URANIUM“You know, they say I’m close to Russia. Hillary Clinton gave away 20 percent of the uranium… ““Trump’s claim suggests the State Department had sole approval authority, but the department is one of nine agencies in the Committee on Foreign Investments… ““there is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, “11. TRAVEL BAN“We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision.”“Trump appears to have forgotten that imprecise wording in the executive order led to confusion… “12. RUSSIA“Russia is a ruse... “[Never meet anyone Russian officials]“… Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.”“Trump also is being misleading when he says has “nothing to do with Russia.” Trump repeatedly sought deals in Russia...”13. INNER CITY BLUES“You go to some of these inner city places and it’s so sad when you look at the crime. You have people — ““Inner cities” is not a category by which crime is measured, and Trump often uses this term to refer to large, urban cities. ““In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. ““One outlier city — Chicago — was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. ““Overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline, since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.”14. MORE OF THE SAME InaugurationWashington Post 1/20/2017 National, World & D.C. Area News andCHICAGO TRIBUNE FACT CHECKING1. "The dishonest media… They make them up in many cases.""It is unclear what stories Trump is referring to here, but mainstream news organizations do not publish articles with "no sources" and certainly do not "make them up in most cases." That is grounds for firing... "2. "When Thomas Jefferson said 'nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper... ""Trump selectively quotes from Jefferson here, who, for most of his life, was a fierce defender of the need for a free press...”3. "... our plan will be much better health care at a much lower cost.""Trump appears to be referring to a tape ... of GOP lawmakers expressing fears about how they would accomplish the goal of both repealing the Affordable Care Act and covering the estimated 20 million people who have gained heath insurance ..."4. Repeated taking credit for economic news and deals that preceded him5. "Within a few days of taking the oath of office, I've taken steps to begin the construction of Keystone and the Dakota Access pipeline. Anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 jobs."“Trump appears to be combining two disputed figures -… actual number of Keystone construction jobs, for instance, is 3,900 on an annualized basis - and other jobs have already been created ...”6. "... I said I refuse to fly in a $4.2 billion airplane. I refuse.""Trump is exaggerating here. Boeing had only a $170 million contract to begin designing a replacement for Air Force One, plan indicated a cost of $2.9 billion over… the next five years for design and development. It's logical to assume at least $1 billion more in additional expenses to complete and procure the aircraft.""An estimate of $4 billion - for design, testing and manufacture of at least two jets - was not completely out of line. But the budget was subject to approval by Congress and the actual design of the aircraft. So Trump is taking credit for cutting a price that had not been negotiated yet.q7. "We've gotten hundreds of millions of dollars off the price of a plane that was going to be ordered."“... he is taking credit for something that had already been negotiated… “8. False crime statistics9. "Now you know the countries we're talking about. And these were countries picked by Obama.""Trump is referring to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, all of which were subject to the executive order that ordered a travel ban on residents of those countries.""Four of the countries were identified by Congress, in a bill signed by Obama, and then the Obama administration included three more. But Obama - and Democrats in Congress - wanted greater visa scrutiny of people who had traveled to those countries. When given a chance, the Obama administration specifically rejected the citizenship-based restrictions that Trump ordered. So there were significant differences in the approach."10. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden. ..“This was a very strange comment. Nothing had happened the night before in Sweden, as Swedes (including former prime minister Carl Bildt) quickly noted.”11. "We've allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country. And there was no way to vet ...""This is false. The vetting of refugees is careful and takes about two years, including FBI screening, Department of Homeland Security interviews and extensive security and background checks."12. "You look at some states, (health insurance premiums in) Arizona up 116 percent.""Trump cherry-picks data from Arizona, the state hit the hardest by 2017 premium increases under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare... A few states, such as Indiana, will actually see a decrease.""But the majority of enrollees in the marketplace receive government premium subsidies and, in theory, are protected from such premium increases. .."13. "Obamacare doesn't work. It's become totally unaffordable. .."Trump is exploiting general public confusion about the Affordable Care Act... most Americans (155 million) get their insurance through their employer and would have noticed little, if any, change, except that their benefit package may have gotten better.“The premium increases cited by Trump relate to the 22 million individual [1/14th of the total] and small-business policies sold on the exchanges or directly to consumers. .. noted before, about half receive tax subsidies, which help make the premium affordable. ““Still, the individual marketplace exchanges have been under pressure ... apparently more willing to pay a $695-per-person fine than sign up for health care”“Some of the initial steps taken by the Trump administration have helped worsen the problems in the individual insurance market - allowing Trump to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.”Fact check: 13 dubious claims from Trump’s rally in FloridaAnalysis | Fact-checking President Trump’s news conferenceFact-checking President Trump’s inaugural addressFact Checker | Washington PostSOURCE: http://www.factcheck.org