[Xylakant]

It's a bad argument to compare the prices for one service in two distinct countries and then imply that the price difference must be due to regulation. There are a lot of other factors going into the price difference - from fuel prices, car prices, repairs, to taxes and other differentiating factors. Prices also always relate to the average cost of living in the area.

The average earning per km in Berlin is somewhere around or below 1,50 EUR before costs (anecdotal evidences but from a credible source). Nobody really gets rich from that - not even the cab company.

[joeclark77]

I don't think you realize how small a kilometer is! Or how valuable a Euro is (in terms of real money like dollars). That sounds to me like an incredible rate of profit.

[schneid]

Fair enough, but I wasn't arguing any such thing.

Just giving my opinion that I find taxis far more expensive in Germany than I did when living in the UK.