[Waverunner]

The crazy number is Japan where gas is cheaper than in America. No oil fields there at all.

[Vigilanteman]

Actually, Japan does produce trace amounts of oil in Yamagata prefecture near the village of Amarume. They also have hybrid cars that manage about 60 miles per gallon. My brother who lives there has one.

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.

[delta7]

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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