Globe Commenters Think Europe is Texas

We thought Herald commenters were bad, but now it looks like some of their ranks may have shifted over to the Globe. In response to an article suggesting that the U.S. should follow in Europe's footsteps by raising gas taxes, multiple commenters theorize that Europe is the size of Texas; hence, raising gas taxes would never work, because we dearly need our gas-guzzlers to get around our great, giant nation. Never mind that France is nearly as big as Texas, that the continent covers much of our country, or that Canadians (whose country is, sorry to disappoint, bigger than the U.S.—if you don't take our inflated egos into account) pay more gas tax than we do yet still manage to get around their maple-leafed communist nation somehow. Europe will surely be interested to hear that it's now the Lone Star Continent.