PRICE OF GAS AROUND THE WORLD (an email I just got)

[Ghost in the Machine]

Does anyone know if this is true?

PRICE OF GAS AROUND THE WORLD

Prices are quoted in US dollars per gallon for regular unleaded.



Oslo, Norway
$6.82



Hong Kong
$6.25



Brussels, Belgium
$6.16



London, UK
$5.96



Rome, Italy
$5.80



Tokyo, Japan
$5.25



Sao Paulo, Brazil
$4.42



New Delhi, India
$3.71



Sidney, Australia
$3.42



Johannesburg, South Africa
$3.39



Mexico City
$2.22



Buenos Aires, Argentina
$2.09


... YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS ...



Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
$0.91



Kuwait
$0.78



Caracas, Venezuela
$0.12

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Does this help? (check out link)

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

Most of the prices at the CNN link are close or the same

on edit:

Another site link
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/05/gas_prices_from.html

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. Thanks for the links...

They seem to be real close, if not the same..

:hi:

[BelgianMadCow]

2. Belgium is about right

we have a lot of tax in our price.

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. Are the prices pretty close all over the country?

I know right now, here in the states, I'm paying $2.87/gal in Tenn, but in Florida & California it's close to $4/gal... It should be the same price in every state, as far as I'm concerned,....

:hi:

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. $3.13/Gal here in S.W. Fla. Not too close to $4.00/gal. n/t

[NightWatcher]

3. gas isnt expensive, the dollar is just worthless

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. The dollar is just following Congress's lead...

:hi:

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

5. It's highly taxed in Europe.

[Nite Owl]

6. Sounds right

but a lot of the price they pay is for taxes that they actually get something from. It is also diffferent for us since we have moved to suburbia and it isn't unusual for people to travel 50-100 miles a day just for work. They also have far advanced public transportation than we do.

[terisan]

8. Have to know tax amount to compare.How much goes to oil company & how much to govt

Presumably the taxes are used to support infrastructure, like roads or other transportation.

[terisan]

10. High price in Hong Kong wouldn't bother me. Don't need to drive far to cover the whole place. nt

[BelgianMadCow]

11. about 80% round here

and we have very good public highway, railway and bus systems.

bmc

[malaise]

12. Jamaica

$3.43

[uppityperson]

13. It would be interesting to see just taxes/gal for different countries.

If I were Queen of the Universe, CEO and top exec profits would be dropped, taxes raised, so the price would stay the same but the money go to help rather than to make the richer richer. Of course division of funds raised by taxes would be different than now also.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Up-to-date prices for European countries, and US in comparison, here - and how much UK tax is

http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/index.html

See the Word doc for Nov 2007. Average petrol price in the UK is 101.5p per litre - the US average they quote works out at 40.21p per litre. The UK price is 65.2% tax - so the price excluding tax is 35.3p per litre. Taking an exchange rate of $2.03=£1, that would be .353 * 2.03 * 3.78 = $2.71 per US gallon.