If I lived somewhere like Vancouver or Montreal or Toronto etc. I wouldn't even have a car. More hassle than benefit in dense areas like that.

Similar here for sure. Lots of "Green" incentives. Works fine in larger cities, but most places our infrastructure in lower populated areas is lacking for sure.

Gas prices are their own thing here. But that is partly on purpose as governments want to nudge people to take other means of transport.

Yes the war is the excuse for our high fuel prices as well, which is killer for me travelling rurally. I'm sure our pricing is still better than most places in Europe though.

Exacerbated even more by the Ukraine invasion and for a while the blown up gas pipeline in the Baltic.

Yeah Europe saw pretty much the same development. Insane price hikes that increase CoL severely.

I'm sure mostly caused by opportunistic corporate greed.