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 |
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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!
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May 4, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Hello!! I was dropping entercards and I noticed your blog. Thanks for the shout-out. Isn’t gas prices terrible??? I guess we have alot of mad people out here….
Thanks for visiting. I love your blog and the layout is so darn cute!!
May 5, 2008 at 10:53 am
Gas is $12.50 a gallon in St. Lucia (in the Caribbean) so they beat Bosnia.
May 5, 2008 at 10:58 am
it’s ridiculous! my hubby (http://21stCenturyDad.com) has been riding the bus and his bike a lot to make a statement. He estimates that he will save at least one tank per month that way.
great blog!
May 5, 2008 at 2:48 pm
It’s the knock on effect on other things that’s so awful.. food costs etc..
AS you say, tax is the biggest portion of it all.. NOT good…
Here in UK there is a lot of people just sick of it all..
May 7, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Sadly, I think that gas prices will only rise in the future. I agree with you about our governments lack of drilling here at home. By not doing so, we end up using more foreign oil.