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"Chris" wrote in message ... "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:VAT9e.5840$r53.5583@attbi_s21... Decimated since when? Post a reference statistic and time as a starting point. Well, let's start with the fact that France's efforts at flight pre-date our own. Is 1903-ish far enough back for you? What taxes particularly are you referring to? Avgas taxes. The price of avgas in France (as the subject of this thread states) has now exceeded $7.50 per gallon, solely as a result of their very aggressive tax policies. Where does France get its processed petroleum products and what factors make the cost of avgas what it is? I presume that they get their petroleum from the same worldwide supply as the U.S. -- yet our avgas is "only" $3.30-ish per gallon. You just pulled thos whole argument out of your ass, dear, and while it might make an interesting thesis for a classroom debate, you should quit defending it unless you have a lot of facts to back up your assertions. As opposed to your well-thought out, carefully crafted counter-arguments? ;-) The facts are clear. It is your unwillingness to accept them that is puzzling. Why -- especially in an aviation forum -- are you (and Larry, Martin, and a couple of other folks) defending a foreign tax system that more than DOUBLES the price of aviation? This makes no sense to me. And why are people required to choose aviation as a pursuit based on the population of their country? They're not. But based on the population of France, there should be many times more pilots -- ESPECIALLY given their proud heritage of flight. I'm still waiting for an answer: If it's NOT the outrageous cost of avgas that has nearly killed general aviation in France, what is it? Why, in the land of Bleriot and Saint-Exupery, are there so (relatively) few men and women feeling the call to the skies, if NOT for price considerations? The French are more culturally mature and have perhaps outgrown such childish pursuits. You forgot the :-). It was a joke wasn't it? |
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