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• Sunday, May 04th, 2008

I found these charts at New York Chica. This makes me so mad I could blow a gasket!!

First, there’s this.

Most expensive places to buy gas
Rank	Country	Price/gal
1.	Bosnia-Herzegovina	$10.86
2.	Eritrea	$9.58
3.	Norway	$8.73
4.	United Kingdom	$8.38
5.	Netherlands	$8.37
6.	Monaco	$8.31
7.	Iceland	$8.28
8.	Belgium	$8.22
9.	France	$8.07
10.	Germany	$7.86
111.	United States	$3.45
Source: AIRINC

OK, wow. Gas is almost $11 in Bosnia?! Holy cow. The European prices don’t surprise me. And in the U.S., that’s the AVERAGE cost. Here in Upstate New York, we’re paying $4. And that was yesterday’s prices.

OK, and then I saw this:

Where gasoline is cheapest
Rank	Country	Price/gal
1.	Venezuela	12 cents
2.	Iran	40 cents
3.	Saudi Arabia	45 cents
4.	Libya	50 cents
5.	Swaziland	54 cents
6.	Qatar	73 cents
7.	Bahrain	81 cents
8.	Egypt	89 cents
9.	Kuwait	90 cents
10.	Seychelles	98 cents
45.	United States	$3.45
155 countries surveyed between March 17 and April 1, 2008. Prices not adjusted for cost of living or exchange rates. Source: AIRINC

That makes me so mad! Arg arg arg!!! The really crappy thing is that taxes contribute a lot to gasoline prices in the U.S. New York State has a 70-cent tax PER GALLON. And then, the U.S. restricts itself because our government will not allow drilling where oil is abundant in our own country. So we ravish the Middle East for their oil and pay through the nose.

MAD MAD MAD! I’m MAD!