Eritrea
Posted on 04/21/2011 10:27:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Americans are fretting over the rising cost of gasoline, and are now paying above $4 a gallon for gas in some spots in the country.
But that $4 a gallon number is nothing compared to some corners of the earth, where high taxes drive gas prices higher.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), a German research firm, reviewed prices in November of 2010, and found some countries with gas costing more than $9 a gallon. And that's BEFORE the surge in oil prices spurred on by instability in the Middle East,
This data also provides a little clarity as to why European countries are so inhibited by the rising price of Brent, as their economies already are burdened by high gas prices due to taxes, according to GTZ
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In “Atlas Shrugged: Part I”, gas is $37.50 a gallon.
Bet they don’t average 15,000 miles of driving each year!
More Business Insider cover for Obama.
“See. Others are paying more than you. It isn’t that bad then, right?”
#1 Eritrea - Price per gallon for gas: $9.61
#2 Turkey - Price per gallon for gas: $9.54
Government taxing energy is an obscene concept..
You have to love leftists arguments like this. Because other socialist basket case and Eurotrash countries have higher prices than ours, I am supposed to be grateful. Screw you. If you notice, most of the price disparity is with the taxes on the fuel in these places. Oh no. Turkey has the highest price on a gallon? Who cares. What exactly do they produce of value? It doesn't matter whether they get to work or not there.
I always thought the world’s most expensive place to get gas was a five-star restaurant when the chef was having a really bad day.
You peons and peasants out in Flyover Country have it great!!So quit complaining, shut up and do what your betters have decided you’ll do.....
A lot of leftists would love it if the average American lifestyle more closely resembled that of Eritreans.
I’m sure before Obunghole is out of office gasoline will be $7.00/gallon. How many here are just looking forward to that?!?!
Am I supposed to feel guilty or better now?
FUBO
An in none of those places do they drive electric cars!!!!
Because, even at those high prices, it is still more economical to drive conventional gasoline powered cars.
And yet, despite the evidence to the contrary, there are still people in the government and academia that think if we can just raise the price of gasoline it would cause people to switch to electric vehicles.
The gasoline price point at which people would start to buy electric vehicles is so high, that the economy would be a smoldering disaster long before we reached it.
Frankly, I could care less what other countries pay.
Their citizens caved to socialism and econonsense. They reap what they’ve sown.
I’m sure before Obunghole is out of office gasoline will be $7.00/gallon. How many here are just looking forward to that?!?!
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Sounds great to me ,, I’ll be fishing everyday as my job would have gone away at about the $5 point .. of course by that time a bag of ice will be $5 because coal would be outlawed... I’ll just have to cook them fresh every day over a wood fire..
Uh, it's the devaluation of the American dollar, NOT Middle East troubles.
Why would I give a rat’s ass what they are paying? The breadth of Europe is insignificant compared with traversing just Texas. We have the resources to bring the price down and we could begin with the states telling the democrats to FOAD and take back all land and resources within their state boundaries. The democrat party is fighting, cheating and stealing elections to bring back what they lost in the Civil War — slavery. This time around those of us who work are to be their new slaves; tax slaves.
FUBO & FAD
Eritrea
“I’m sure before Obunghole is out of office gasoline will be $7.00/gallon. How many here are just looking forward to that?!?!”
I am really looking forward to Obunghole is out of office. And whatever the price then, watch it DROP!
Hmmm...So what?? If we could DRILL for our own and use COAL GAS TECHNOLOGY we could ha\/e gas at $2. If we did our marine (boating) and R industries would be STRONG!!
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