Gas prices around the world (2005)

CNNMoney.com ^ | 4/2005 | Staff

[Red Badger]

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.

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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

[Red Badger]

This is a bit old, but still informative. If anybody has a link to a newer set of data, it would be greatly appreciated..........

[philsfan24]

its so expensive in these european countries because they tax the crap out of it

[dfwgator]

And they tax the crap out of it here too.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Twelve cents a gallon in Venezuela?

Wow, I may take a trip this weekend to Caracas and fill up my tank.

[Sax]

Is being able to fill your tank for under $2 the consolation prize for having to live under Chavez?

[rhombus]

Is being able to fill your tank for under $2 the consolation prize for having to live under Chavez?

That an an annual income of $30.

[Hildy]

Here's a great website. You put in your zip code and it tells you where the cheapest gas is.

CLICK HERE FOR CHEAP GAS
MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE ZIP CODE

[franky]

Supply and demand should be the test. New York, L. A. and Chicago probably have more automobiles than most of the countries listed. Should the U S pay as much as some countries when we use much more of the product?

[Red Badger]

They probably aren't allowed to have cars.............they might try to leave......

[not2worry]

We just got back from New Zealand and the price of gas was close to $6.00US per gallon!

It was interesting because no one was complaining and we never saw anything in the press regarding the prices.

Their big political agenda seemed to be with racial issues and illegal immigration into Auckland by the Pacific Rim Asian countries.

Other than that the biggest talk was about the All Blacks. The hubby and I had a chuckle cause you could never have a National sports team named that in the USA. Were going to buy the grandson a t-shirt but didn't want to impose the consequences on the young lad it he wore it to school.

[kellynla]

Gas Buddy.com has a better format
http://www.gasbuddy.com

[onyx]

Good link, thanks.
Not that I will gasoline shop.


$2.85 right now.

[elc]

You should have gotten him the t-shirt. I have several of them and wear them all the time. It's a pretty well-known team, even here in the US, so I doubt he would get a hard time for it.

And if he did, he could educate them as to the name: They were first called the New Zealand Originals, but on a rugby tour of Britain they were dubbed the All Blacks because of their uniforms. Or if you believe the other theory - it was a printer's error in one of the English papers. It was supposed to be "All-Backs", meaning all the players, no matter what position they played, played as good as a back.

If you don't get a chance to get him a shirt before Christmas time - my stepmother goes back to NZ this year and we always put in orders for t-shirts or rugby jerseys.

[lilylangtree]

Oh please! If we complain about the oil companies gouging the sh*t out of us in the US, someone decides to relativity rate andshow what a good price we're paying. The American consumers are being gouged plain and simple by the oil companies who set the prices for gas stations to charge.

[capitalist229]

Don't gloat $5 is where we're headed.

Structural problems beyond our control although the US military can quickly get them back under control.

BUMP

[xzins]

The cost of producing gasoline from ground to pump is about the same everyplace. Price differences then have to do primarily with taxation. Perhaps in some places transportation to the pumping station would be more, but not that much more in relative terms.

[b4its2late]

Thanks for the link.

I hear my illustrious Senators and illustrious Congress critter from NY moan and groan that gas prices are too high and that oil companies are at fault. It may be true, but I see how fast these same democrats are to eliminate the federal gas taxes and require the states to eliminate them for at least the summer driving season.

That is about as likely to happen as the chance of New York City becoming a Republican town......

[BigBobber]

Democrats actually love high gas price for the masses - they think it will take Joe Six-pack off their highways and onto crappy mass transit that they have designated for our use. At they same time they can bash oil companies and Republicans and then tell the benighted that high prices "affect the poor the most" and how they will investigate them. For them it's a twofer.

[Cobra64]

Should the U S pay as much as some countries when we use much more of the product?

There are many pieces affecting the price at the pump.

[Revolting cat!]

That does it! I'm moving!