Gasoline prices around the world. >>>

[BlueJazz]

Just Curious..Why are prices so low in Puerto Rico ??? ($1.74)
I assumed (??) they were under the same controls as the USA??

Source: http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/


Nation City Price in USD Regular/Gallon


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

[steve2470]

1. link please and thank you nt

[BlueJazz]

2. Thanks!...meant to do that..just woke up.

:)

[Possumpoint]

3. You Failed To List

The $9+ a gallon being charged by car rental companies to re-fill their cars if the client fails to do so.

[nilram]

13. yeah, that's another country altogether... Ripoffistan...

Or is it Ubinskrewdidore?

[Initech]

14. I like to think of it as Yougetfuckedistan.

[nilram]

15. Yeah, seem's I'm getting screwed more now...

but enjoying it less.

[n2doc]

4. $400/gal in Afghanistan

$400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan
By Roxana Tiron - 10/15/09 08:34 PM ET
The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.

The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week.

Pentagon officials have told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S. troops operate.
“It is a number that we were not aware of and it is worrisome,” Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Defense panel, said in an interview with The Hill. “When I heard that figure from the Defense Department, we started looking into it.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-gas-another-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-

[BlueJazz]

12. Sweet Jesus!!! It would cost me $6000.00 to fill up my Car.

Fuck..If every soldier that went over there carried a 5 gallon pack of fuel that would save a lot of dough.

....OR...couldn't planes drop Fuel in "tight-packs" (I think thats the name???..they're used for dropping electronic equipment)...probably hold 500 gallons each 500x400=20,000

I don't know...something about this whole deal smells rotten..

[justiceischeap]

5. Puerto Rico... Surprising prices since it's a US territory.

I would think it would be higher there.

I'm liking Venezuela's gas prices.

[Historic NY]

8. Doesn't add up since its tankered in..

[BobbyBoring]

9. There's a huge Hess refinery right around there

It doesn't have to go far.

[LeftinOH]

6. The countries with the most expensive gas (mostly) have excellent public transit,

and rail links between most cities, with bustling train stations in the center. UK, Germany, for sure.

[pampango]

7. They do have a sort of self-sustaining cycle. High-priced gas makes public transit look good,

high taxes on gas supply public transit with the funds to meet the demand.

It's a nice cycle, but for countries like the US that don't have it, do with start with the chicken or the egg? Without a lot more public funding and/or European-level gas taxes to fund a workable public transit system, we have great difficulty getting one started. But if we don't get one started, we don't want to pay higher gas taxes for a transit system that will only exist in the future.

It would seem we are destined to limp along with our current system while gas prices steadily increase anyway, because we don't want to pay a penny more per gallon than we absolutely have to today, while every level of government is cutting back on funding of infrastructure projects like public transit.

[AlabamaLibrul]

19. And much much much higher wages nt

[Newcanuck]

10. Well, at least one of those figures is way off base

South Africa the only one I'm personally familiar with, but US$2.62 is equivalent to R17.60/gallon. The current gas price in Joburg is R9.96/litre which is equivalent to $37.84/gallon and at today's exchange rate works out to approximately US$5.60 gallon.

[plcdude]

11. All prices updated March, 2005.

I think we have a problem here.

[Obamanaut]

16. unrec It looks a ike a very old article. The price I paid yesterday on a motorcycle

ride was NOT 1/3 the price in Oslo. I paid $4.03/gal. Check out these snips from the article:

"Drivers in some European cities, like Amsterdam and Oslo, are paying nearly 3 times more than those in the U.S."

"...citizens, he said. All prices updated March, 2005...."

Here's a link from a 2008 article where the Oslo gas price is listed as $9.85 ->


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-worldgas10-2008jul10,0,2489191.story

[ChoppinBroccoli]

17. All The People Who Cite High Gas Prices In Western European Countries...........

..............usually fail to mention that the vast majority of the money spent on every gallon of gas goes toward TAXES, which are then used to help repair roads, pay for public transportation, research energy efficiency, clean up the air, etc. I think most Americans (myself included) would GLADLY pay higher gas prices if they knew that their dollars were being pumped back into the infrastructure and/or were being used to better the country as a whole. But sadly, here in America, when WE pay high gas prices, those dollars don't go anywhere but into the deep pockets of the Big Oil fat cats. We get NO return on our investment. That money just goes down a rat hole. Whereas the Western European countries actually get to benefit from the fruits of their high gas prices.

[lonestarnot]

18. Guess with those prices, the House pugs had to assure that US subsidies to oil co.s had to continue.

All about the rich motherfuckers. CONs ... :puke:

[dipsydoodle]

20. UK figure is understated

Currently c. $8 / US gallon.

[Obamanaut]

21. It's a six year old chart. nt