Gasoline Prices Worldwide

[Iris7]

A little humor break for this evening………

 

Notice the difference a bit of tax policy or subsidy policy can make. Price per US gallon in US dollars.

 

 

Netherlands	Amsterdam	$6.48
Norway	Oslo	$6.27
Italy	Milan	$5.96
Denmark	Copenhagen	$5.93
Belgium	Brussels	$5.91
Sweden	Stockholm	$5.80
United Kingdom	London	$5.79
Germany	Frankfurt	$5.57
France	Paris	$5.54
Portugal	Lisbon	$5.35
Hungary	Budapest	$4.94
Luxembourg		$4.82
Croatia	Zagreb	$4.81
Ireland	Dublin	$4.78
Switzerland	Geneva	$4.74
Spain	Madrid	$4.55
Japan	Tokyo	$4.24
Czech Republic	Prague	$4.19
Romania	Bucharest	$4.09
Andorra		$4.08
Estonia	Tallinn	$3.62
Bulgaria	Sofia	$3.52
Brazil	Brasilia	$3.12
Cuba	Havana	$3.03
Taiwan	Taipei	$2.84
Lebanon	Beirut	$2.63
South Africa	Johannesburg	$2.62
Nicaragua	Managua	$2.61
Panama	Panama City	$2.19
Russia	Moscow	$2.10
Puerto Rico	San Juan	$1.74
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	$0.91
Kuwait	Kuwait City	$0.78
Egypt	Cairo	$0.65
Nigeria	Lagos	$0.38
Venezuela	Caracas	$0.12

Source: air-inc.com

[CounterCounterCulture]

The other day at Starbucks I heard the these two complaining about gas prices as they drank their $5 a cup coffees.

(rimshot)

(crickets)

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all night. (ok, not really... time for bedtime)

[Salamander]

Egypt Cairo $0.65

All that cheap gas and nowhere to go.....

[backhoe]

Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:

[ukman]

In Germany, people grumble about the prices but it's not really much of an issue. Many people commute by tram, bus or train, others by bicycle or even on foot. Commuters claim fuel costs for travel to and from work against tax, leisure trips are kept to a minimum. Cutthroat competition also keeps trucking costs low. The distances to be covered aren't as great either. However, there are certainly consequences from the price differences. The biggish city of Trier has almost no filling stations still in business, while just over the Moselle river in Luxembourg there are whole streets full of stations, one behind the other. The situation on the Polish border is similar, I hear.
In Britain, there's little chance to get cheap fuel, and public transport is not as well developed as on the continent. So it's more of a hardship there.
US gas prices are ridiculously low by western European standards, and its cars aren't as fuel efficient.

[diverteach]

Makes you kinda not feel quite so bad when it comes time to fill-up I suppose. I highly doubt that gas prices will be stop going up anytime soon either. Yesterday, Chavez of Venezuala threatened to cut off supplies of whom we recieve 30% of our oil from, and then, not to mention the powder keg waiting to erupt in Israel and Iran. The future's not looking to good.

I am starting to notice more and more SUV's sitting roadside and in parking lots with a for sale sign in the window. Stock in car companies that sell hybrids are strting to look like they'll be the new tech stocks to get your hands on.

[kassie]

Isn't that the truth.

[ukman]

A friend of mine said there was/is an SUV so "greedy" that it can't fill up while the engine is running. I'm not sure he wasn't having me on. Can you or anyone else on this thread confirm this and tell me what vehicle this is? I can't imagine it's selling all too well.

[diverteach]

Only thing I could imagine would be the original Hummer's. Thier MPG's are the lowest of any production vehicle I know of. But, the claim that it drinks it faster than can be pumped in is pretty absurd.

[ukman]

OK, so I was right that he was just taking the piss out of me.
Thanks.

[laceybrookesdad]

Venezuela might have cheap gas, .12 a gallon (I read they have approx. 80 billion barrels of oil in reserves) but who would want to live there. They have an inflation rate and unemployment rate over 20%, 50% of their population lives below the poverty line and who would want to live anywhere near Colombia.