Posted on 04/25/2026 3:41:15 PM PDT by delta7
World map of gasoline prices…..Germany 9.36, France 8.80, Russia 3.30, Hong Kong 15.36…..
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Gas is essentially “free” in Iran?
That needs to change.
Pronto.
Gas is essentially “free” in Iran?
Maybe we can send Greta there.
“The Cheapest Gasoline Is in Oil-Rich Nations
Libya tops the list at just $0.09 per gallon, followed by Iran and Venezuela, all below $0.15.”
The USA is not Oil Rich?
Maybe we need a plot of Price v. Per Capita production?
Drill baby drill.
Plot: Gasoline Prices vs. Per Capita Oil Production (2026 Estimate)
Note: This description outlines a typical, non-linear scatter plot based on global data. Axes are logarithmic/ranked to reflect the massive range of data.
X-axis: Crude Oil Production Per Capita (Barrels per year/person)
Y-axis: Gasoline Price ($USD/liter)
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^ High | 🇭🇰 HK, 🇳🇴 NO (Low Prod/High Tax)
| * * * * * (Europe, East Asia)
$ |
/liter |
| 🇺🇸 US (High Prod/Low Cost)
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0.5 | 🇸🇦 SA, 🇷🇺 RU, 🇮🇷 IR, 🇱🇾 LY (High Prod/Low Cost)
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0 |_______________________________________________________>
Low Oil Prod Per Capita High
Use code with caution.
Google AI has a ways to go....
in the 80’s gas was .76 cents here in us- for years it was that price- could fill up for about $10 (Though $10 back then was still hard to take, my job i was making under $3 an hour)
Libia .09
Iran .11
Venezuala .13 (Brazil right next door is over $5)
Algeria 1.35
US 4.45 avg
Gas prices have been up & down here. Mostly moderate, but I just saw .$15 increase today. Hopefully it will get back down as I wasn’t always living on S.S. Of course, we are still lower than Calif. & some other places, but nothing I want to brag about.
The crazy number is Japan where gas is cheaper than in America. No oil fields there at all.
Fracking is expensive. The ME oil practically gushes by itself.
That being said, yes, they have to import damn near 100%.
True story: When I worked there as a contract buyer for a major Japanese company, Idemitsu (a Japanese refiner) actually won a contract to deliver a specialty petroleum product from their refinery in Singapore to a project we were doing in the middle east against several major refiners closer to the destination port such as Shell, BP and Chevron.
Good Point...
OTOH, Iran allegedly is a net importer of finished product as it doesn’t have enough net domestic Refining Capacity to meet domestic demand.
Yeah. Same with Venezuela. Also Saudi Arabia has to import sand. Their sand sucks for concrete.
Diesel was 6.70 a gallon in Eastern Oregon yesterday. This fetid state is basically a Californian suburb.
The crazy number is Japan where gas is cheaper than in America.
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Taxes on gasoline, in the US we have Federal fuel taxes, state taxes, etc….
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