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Interesting, indeed...
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...bal_gasprices/
Gas prices around the world
Think you pay a lot for gas? Perhaps you'd prefer to live in Venezuela.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Gasoline prices in the United States, which have recently hit record highs, are actually much lower than in many countries. Drivers in some European cities, like Amsterdam and Oslo, are paying nearly 3 times more than those in the U.S.
The main factor in price disparities between countries is government policy, according to AirInc, a company that tracks the cost of living in various places around the world. Many European nations tax gasoline heavily, with taxes making up as much as 75 percent of the cost of a gallon of gasoline, said a spokesperson for AirInc.
In a few Latin America and Middle-East nations, such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is produced by a government-owned company and local gasoline prices are kept low as a benefit to the nation's citizens, he said. All prices updated March, 2005.
NationCityPrice in USD Regular/GallonNetherlandsAmsterdam$6.48NorwayOslo$6.27ItalyMilan $5.96DenmarkCopenhagen$5.93BelgiumBrussels$5.91Swe denStockholm$5.80United KingdomLondon$5.79GermanyFrankfurt$5.57FranceParis $5.54PortugalLisbon$5.35HungaryBudapest$4.94Luxemb ourg$4.82CroatiaZagreb$4.81IrelandDublin$4.78Switz erlandGeneva$4.74SpainMadrid$4.55JapanTokyo$4.24Cz ech RepublicPrague$4.19RomaniaBucharest$4.09Andorra$4. 08EstoniaTallinn$3.62BulgariaSofia$3.52BrazilBrasi lia$3.12CubaHavana$3.03TaiwanTaipei$2.84LebanonBei rut$2.63South AfricaJohannesburg$2.62NicaraguaManagua$2.61Panama Panama City$2.19RussiaMoscow$2.10Puerto RicoSan Juan$1.74Saudi ArabiaRiyadh$0.91KuwaitKuwait City$0.78EgyptCairo$0.65NigeriaLagos$0.38Venezuela Caracas$0.12
Interesting, indeed...
many of those European countries ride 4 cylinder cars.
Here in the US we are slaves of our SUV's.
$75 to fill up!
Then they must be driving tanks in Venezuela at .12 a gallon.
.12 cents!!!!!!!! vs 2.99
that's $321.44 less than I pay per month for gasoline and $3857.28 less that I have in my bank account!
You wonder why Euro's hate America. They pay 5+ a gallon, and don't pollute as much, while we pay 2-3 a gallon, and pollute like .
Where the are you paying $2.99? I still see it here for around $2.65.12 cents!!!!!!!! vs 2.99
that's $321.44 less than I pay per month for gasoline and $3857.28 less that I have in my bank account!
We don't pollute like .
Europe doesn't have a lot of pollution because they have a lot of alternative energy like wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear power (especially France on the nuclear power).
They should be pissed because most of the high taxes they pay on automotive fuel doesn't even go to update & maintain their infastructure.
aus$1.29 a litre, ppl hurt the most are ppl livin in rural areas, and farmin PP business.
What is the exchange rate between US and AUS dollar?aus$1.29 a litre
1.00 USD
United States Dollars =1.32082 AUD
Australia Dollars
and
1.00 AUD
Australia Dollars =0.757020 USD
United States Dollar
That's $3.70US/Gal.
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the high taxes, are America's and Bush's fault, get it right.They should be pissed because most of the high taxes they pay on automotive fuel doesn't even go to update & maintain their infastructure
"We don't pollute like ."
CO2 production is pollution, and USA is World Champion.
"they have a lot of alternative energy"
no, they don't. Engery from renewable sources (basically just wind and tide, as Eu is too far north for solar) is marginal in Europe, just like USA. A lot of young people don't have cars, because although they might be able to scrape enough to buy a junker (but not too junky as inspections are very rigorous), they can't afford the operating costs.
There were significant protests in UK and France a few weeks ago when the oil prices over $60+ broke through into high retail prices.
Europeans have had high gasoline/fuel prices for 30+ years. No political party of any stripe has proposed lowering those taxes significantly over that period, because they all understand conservation is the key to their national wealth not being siphoned off overseas.
btw, aviation fuel not taxed, by international convention, and the explosion of air travel has become a huge air polluter, injecting 100s of tons a gas directly into the upper atmosphere, and still the US airlines can't keep their head above water. Imagine what tickets would cost if these "transportation factories" aka airplanes had to pay fuel taxes or pollution taxes like terrestial factories.
I guess the several nuclear power plants I visited in France were just a figment of my imagination.
You do realize that the UK and Norway are oil EXPORTERS, don't you?Europeans have had high gasoline/fuel prices for 30+ years. No political party of any stripe has proposed lowering those taxes significantly over that period, because they all understand conservation is the key to their national wealth not being siphoned off overseas.
nuclear power plants are not considered "renewable" energy.
They consume fuel and produces horribly poisonous, long-lived residue. As well as producing quite a bit of thermal pollution (cooling towers).
You are correct that France gets a lot, 70%, of its electrical power from nuclear, and they quite a bit from hydro (the Alps). But the contribution from wind + tide + biomass is exactly like in the USA: marginal.
Come up with any combustion reaction other than hydrogen (which comes from natural gas, a fossil fuel) that doesn't produce carbon dioxide and water as its byproducts.CO2 production is pollution, and USA is World Champion.
If I made my numbers correct (litres to gallon, then Pesos to USD), here we pay an average of 2,52 USD per gallon.
"You do realize that the UK and Norway are oil EXPORTERS"
But the Europeans had foresight to know that their local fields of oil and gas were limited, and the wisdom and responsiblity to keep energy prices high to provoke conservation, unlike the USA where the corps and the politicians they own wanted high consumption and unlimited freedom to pocket the profits without any accompanying responsibility.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3622129.stm
NL is also a signicant Eu supplier of natural gas:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3204.htm
"Although Dutch crude oil production is small, the Netherlands ranks among the largest producers and distributors of natural gas. The Slochteren gasfields in Groningen Province in the north are among the world's largest-producing natural gas fields. Total proven reserves of natural gas situated on the mainland currently amount to about 2 trillion cubic meters. Roughly 80% is accounted for by reserves on the mainland, the remaining 20% accounted for by relatively small deposits on the North Sea continental shelf. Current gas production is running at an annual average of close to 80 billion cubic meters, roughly half of which is exported to EU member countries."
I asume we are talking about U.S. Gallons, 1 gal= 2.78 litres, right?
Damn gallons, ounces and all that stuff, you should adopt the metric system and you would be loved worlwide!
1 US gallon = 3.78 liters
The damn British commonwealth shouldn't have given up on their own damn measurement system. To with the Commie metric system.
Oh, thanks, 3.78, It was a typing mistake actually. So my numbers were correct, 2.52 USD per gallon here ('tho the price is regulated by both the oil companies and the State).
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