Gas prices

Prices are up about 10-12% since the above graph was created last month. U.S. price now averages about $3.35 a gallon. It’s about $9 a U.S. gallon in northern Europe. (There are 3.7854 gallons in a liter.)

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    1. You know how moviemakers are said to make mistakes on purpose to see if people are watching?

      Well, me too. 🙂

      Liters per gallon.

  4. I see some pretty obscure countries are included. But where are the oil-producing countries of Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, and Venezuela?

    Interesting that Japan’s taxes are so low, and were recently even lower. They are a big oil importer, but they conserve massively!

  5. The best prices I can find for a larger group of nations (w/o spending more time than I care to) are from November 23, 2009, in dollars per U.S. gallon:

    Netherlands $7.93/gal
    Norway $7.77/gal
    Denmark $7.59/gal
    Germany $7.41/gal
    Finland $7.36/gal
    Portugal $7.30/gal
    Belgium $7.26/gal
    Italy $7.26/gal
    Sweden $6.74/gal
    Ireland $6.57/gal
    Austria $6.29/gal
    Spain $6.06/gal
    Poland $5.96/gal
    Bulgaria $5.21/gal
    Romania $5.10/gal
    Australia $4.65/gal
    Canada $3.58/gal
    United States $2.65/gal
    Russia: $0.78/gal
    Venezuela: $0.22/gal

    As best I can determine, gasoline in Mexico today is about $3 a gallon.

  6. We used to drive down to Mexico frequently when we were students, ~10yrs ago. It was more expensive than the US, like traveling to CA or even slightly more expensive in comparison to NM/CO prices. In addition, the only place to fill up was PEMEX and it was always full service.

  7. I meant to add that the $3.39 p/gal we pay at the pump does not reflect our external costs of foreign wars and military bases. I don’t know how you’d allocate $1T plus over the country’s oil consumption volume but it would add up. Same with several other nation’s external costs I’d imagine.

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