Really? The entirety of the Netherlands can get that speed via cable nowadays. The University of Twente campus in the Netherlands has had 100/100Mbit since 2003, including student houses: every room has their own 100/100Mbit connection. By the end of this year, it will be upgraded and everyone will have 1/1Gbit at home.

There are three physical networks in the Netherlands. KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile. The first two have admitted to using DPI (or SPI), some form of PI at least. Then there's the 50 operators who use those three networks to offer their servers, but it's unclear whether KPN uses DPI on their traffic as well (it's their network of course). Another problem: KPN and Vodafone have a good network (speed and coverage), while T-Mobile's sucks. So it's either sucky coverage or DPI as it stands now. In a few weeks, DPI probably won't be used because of all the media attention. Problem solved.

My parents house, above average in size compared to other Dutch homes, used 3800kWh last year. I recently built them new PC's so expect that to drop with about 100-200kWh this year. However, for reasons unknown to us (we're doing everything to save gas), we use about 4500m3 of gas which is far above average (1800m3 is average), we're looking into that now. This is for a house with 2 people living there pretty much 24 hours a day, so no downtime for anything.

It's the Dutch acronym for an STD...

Exactly, we Europeans have always had an incentive to get ourselves more fuel efficient cars, because our gas was always expensive. Dutch gas is, converted, about 9$/gallon at the moment. Now the USA's prices are going up (still cheap though), suddenly Americans are interested in and astonished by what the rest of the world considers normal. Too bad it took so long, but good to see none the less.