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To: combjelly who wrote (297)	7/20/2005 12:44:59 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 492

Low single digit is something like 1 to 3%. I've been to Europe (England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland/Netherlands), and I've seen pictures and videos of European cars and roads even when I wasn't in Europe. I've also talked about cars with people born in Europe. The cars aren't all a bunch of micro cars even though they are smaller on the average. The roads overall might be better (at least in the richer European countries), but some of them are bad. I haven't been to Eastern Europe but I would be surprised if their roads are of uniform high quality. If only 1 to 3% of European cars could survive on American roads than the majority of them would also have problems surviving on European roads. Also "a lot" doesn't mean "a high percentage". Their are many millions of cars in Europe. It would be odd to say "a lot" if the percentage is as low as you claim it is, but it would hardly be "contrafactual". It wouldn't even be odd if the percentage is well above your "low single digit" percentage, even if it is still a minority. Something like 20% of European cars amounts to "a lot" of cars by almost anyone's standards. Tim