If you live in Sweden and are traveling to Denmark, you just bring back a couple cases of beer to offset the cost. :-) Or you go all the way to Germany and pack your car full of beer.

What you have to realize is that most people here don't drive cars. I take the train to work, usually riding my bike to the station and taking advantage of a cheap and new bike share on the other end of the commute, but sometimes using the bus on either or both ends, and I pay 1,200 SEK ($165) for thirty days of the transit pass that will take me everywhere in the southernmost province of Sweden, Skåne. I could have gotten away with a slightly cheaper pass, but two trips each month to Malmö or Helsingborg was quickly rivaling the cost of the increased-fee transit pass. But the transit system is effective and often full. I get the idea that what I pay is close to the actual cost of the thing.

More realistically, though, some people are living in Sweden for the relatively low cost of living and work in Denmark, where everything except beer is more expensive. The exchange rate is pointing in that direction right now, such that even if you drive a car and cross the bridge every day, it might still be a large economic advantage. The cost of delicious, delicious beer is an anomaly.