Average gasoline prices around the world
See fuel tax for tax information by country.

The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) has published a list of worldwide gasoline prices by country every year since 1991. The results for 2007 can be seen on page 96 and 97 of this document

Country/Territory   US$/L   US$/gal   Local units   Date of price   Sources  
Australia 1.48 5.60 A$1.54/L 2008-05-27 [5]
Bahrain (Manama) 0.27 1.02 BHD 0.100/L (95 Octane) BHD 0.080/L (90 Octane) 2008-04-29 [6]
Belgium (Brussels) 2.23 8.44 €1.45/L 2008-05-12 [7][8][9]
Brazil (São Paulo) 1.59 6.02 R$2,59/L 2008-04-29 [citation needed]
Brunei 0.39 1.48 BND0.53/L 2008-06-05 Brunei Press Sdn Bhd [7]
Canada 1.45 5.49 C$1.45/L 2008-05-30 GasBuddy.com [8]
Chile 1.27 4.81 CLP 605/L 2008-05-29 [9]
China 0.74 2.80 RMB 5.13/L 2008-05-27 CNN Money/[10]/[10]
Colombia 1.07 4.05 $7400/G 2008-05-24
Croatia 1.95 7.38 HRK 8.99/L 2008-05-23 INA Unleaded 95 [11]
Cyprus 1.87 7.08 €1.18/L 2008-06-07 [12]
Denmark (Copenhagen) 2.46 9.31 DKK11.50/L 2008-05-28 [8]
Dominican Republic 1.51 5.72  2008-05-27 [13]/diariolibre.com
Egypt (Cairo) 0.32 1.21  2008-05-05 [11][12]
Eritrea 2.53 9.58  2008-05-06 [13]
Estonia 1.75 6.62 EEK 17.40/L 2008-05-27 [14]
Finland 2.35 8.90 €1.511/L 2008-05-28 [15]
France 2.13 8.06  2008-05-06 [13]
Germany 2.43 9.20 €1.535/L (Normalbenzin)
€1.521/L (Superbenzin)
€1.613/L (SuperPlus)
€1.496/L(Diesel) 2008-06-08 [16]
Greece 1.95 7.38 €1.24/L 2008-05-12
Guatemala 1.95 7.38 $4.76/L 2008-05-12  
Honduras 1.07 4.05 Lps. 81.00/G 2008-05-26  
Hong Kong 2.20 8.33 HK$17.13/L 2008-06-06 Shell Hong Kong/[17]
Hungary 1.985 7.51 HUF 315/L 2008-05-15  
Iceland 2.13 8.06 ISK 159.20/L 2008-05-27 Olís/[18]
India (Bangalore) 1.36 5.15 INR 58.50/L 2008-05-05  
Indonesia 0.65 2.46 IDR 6,000/L 2008-05-24 Pertamina/[19]
Iran 0.11 0.42  2007-05-05 CNN Money/[20]
Israel 2.1 7.95 NIS 6.73/L 2008-05-31 Israel Min. of National Infrastructures (Hebrew)[21]
Italy 2.32 8.78 €1.49/L 2008-05-18 [8]
Japan 1.54 5.83 ¥160.1/L 2008-05-12 The Oil Information Center Japan[22]
Kuwait (Kuwait City) 0.21 0.79 KWD 0.060/L (91 Octane)
0.065/L (95 Octane) 2006-04-13 [23]/Kuwait Oil Company
Malaysia 0.84 3.18 RM2.70/L 2008-06-05 New Petrol Prices in Malaysia
Mexico (Mexico City) 0.62 2.35 MX$6.80/L 2007-05-05 Banco de Información Económica/[24]
Monaco 2.20 8.33  2008-05-06 [13]
Netherlands 2.67 10.11 €1.69/L (Euro 95)
€1.76/L (Super 9 2008-06-10 United Consumers [25]
New Zealand 1.62 6.13 NZ$2.059/L 2008-05-27 Pricewatch/fx.com on 2006-09-29
Nigeria (Lagos) 0.10 0.38  2005-03-13 CNN Money/[26]
North Korea 0.71 2.69 101.139 KPW/L 2006-11 2007 GTZ[27]
Norway (Oslo) 2.74 10.37 NOK 13.74/L 2008-06-07 Shell/[28]
Pakistan 1.06 4.01 Rs 68.81/L 2008-05-04 PSO/[29]
Philippines (Cebu) 1.22 4.62 P 53.40/L 2008-05-27 Caltex Philippines
Poland (Krakow) 2.06 7.80 PLN 4.45/L 2008-06-06 [30]
Portugal 2.35 8.90 €1.505/L (95 Octane)
€1.634/L (98 Octane)
€1.426 (Diesel) 2008-05-28 Galp official price MaisGasolina 2008-05-28 Update
Qatar (Doha) 0.22 0.83 QAR 0.75/L (97 Octane)
QAR 0.67/L (90 Octane) 2007-09-17 [31] / The General Secretariat for Development Planning - State of Qatar
Romania (Bucharest) 1.85 7.00 RON 4.30/L 2008-06-06 [32]
Russia (Moscow) 1.049 3.97 RUR 24.68/L (95 Octane)
RUR 23.68/L (92 Octane)
RUR 20.30/L (80 Octane)
RUR 23.52/L (Diesel) 2008-06-09 [14]
Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) 0.12 0.45 SAR 0.45/L (91 Octane)
SAR 0.67/L (95 Octane) 2007-05-16 [15][11]
Sierra Leone 4.87 18.43 14400 Leones/L 2008-05-01 [33]
Singapore 1.60 6.06 S$2.379(VPower)
S$2.26/L(98UL)
S$2.186(95UL)
S$2.153(92UL) 2008-05-22 Shell
Slovenia 1.83 6.93 €1.165/L 2008-05-27 Petrol
Sri Lanka 1.46 5.53 LKR157/L (90 Octane) and LKR170 (95 Octane) 2008-06-08 [16][17]
South Africa 1.23 4.66 R9.460/L 2008-05-27 SASOL [34]
South Korea 1.95 7.38 1,960 KRW/L 2008-06 2007 GTZ[35]
Spain (Madrid) 1.94 7.34 €1.23/L 2008-05-27 [36]
Sweden 2.30 8.71 SEK 13.64/L 2008-05-22 JET/
Switzerland (Zurich) 1.88 7.12 CHF 1.95/L 2008-05-28  
Thailand 1.21 4.58 40.09 Baht/L 2008-06-08 [37]
Trinidad and Tobago 0.48 1.82 $3TTD/L 2008-05-26  
Turkey 2.68 10.14 YTL 3.44/L 2008-04-22 NTV/[38]
Turkmenistan 0.08 0.30 TMM 400/L 2006-11-25 Turkmenistan.ru/[39]
UAE 0.37 1.40 AED 6.25/Imperial gal (95 Octane)
AED 6.75/Imperial gal (98 Octane) 2008-05-27 [40]/Bahrain Tribune
Ukraine 1.33 5.03 UAH 6.4/L 2008-06-01  
United Kingdom 2.26 8.56 £1.14/L 2008-05-22 petrolprices.comUnleaded price graphBBC News
United States 1.065 4.03 $4.03/gal 2008-06-07 [18]
Uruguay (Montevideo) 1.6 6.06 U$ 32/L 2008-01-12  
Venezuela (Caracas) 0.05 0.19 Bs. 97; BsF. 0.097 2008-01-12  

These were the prices as of the beginning of 2008 as we all know the price is now higher but in Venezuela gas is cheaper than water.

Im still trying to figure how much gas is in Venezuala- It WAS .12 a gal in 2005- it must have gone up too-

Bottled water and gas were about the same in the US too - I remember 4 or 5 years ago buying gas at atation in Mississippi at $ 1.50 a gallon and a gallon of WATER was about the same-

I still cant believe the bottled water business.....America has the most fresh water supply available to it's inhabitants........we must be stupid......

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Im still trying to figure how much gas is in Venezuala- It WAS .12 a gal in 2005- it must have gone up too-

Ya think????

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Environmentalists call new coal plant costly waste

By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The state is putting $6 million in pursuit of an experimental coal-fired power plant to capture greenhouse gases, drawing fire from environmentalists who call it a costly boondoggle.
     
Today, Gov. David Paterson supported a $308 million plant planned by the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities and several coal- and energy-related firms.
Flanked by local politicians and union leaders during a Jamestown press conference, the governor said the plant, which aims to divert carbon dioxide emissions from the air, would fight global warming.
Support came from both U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat, who called it a ``knockout win'' while Republican state Sen. Catharine Young, who represents the area, called it the ``most significant economic breakthrough in decades.''
Environmentalists questioned backing the state's first new coal-fired power plant in 25 years.
In January, the U.S. Energy Departmenty pulled support from its experimental FutureGen ``clean coal'' power plant project in Illinois because of a spiraling $1.8 billion price tag.
Said Rob Moore, director of Environmental Advocates of New York, ``The federal government has already cut off investments in dirty `clean coal' technology and the state should follow.''
Other critics included the American Lung Association, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, New York State Public Interest Research Group, Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club and Western New York Climate Action Coalition.
In 2006, Gov. George Pataki vetoed a law to support the Jamestown plant through tax incentives under the Empire State Development Zone program.
Pataki wrote ``the proposed plant may be inconsistent with our efforts over the last 12 years to improve the quality of our natural environment and reduce the emission of harmful greenhouse gases.''
The new state budget included just $400,000 for the planned 50-megawatt plant.
Paterson spokesman Errol Cockfield said the state is awarding a $6 million grant from the Empire State Development Corp., $400,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and $400,000 from the state Senate.
Jamestown's project would use pure oxygen during burning of coal, which could produce CO2 easier to capture before escaping up the smokestack.
The Jamestown power board is working with a half-dozen corporations, including:
Praxair, a Connecticut-based company and the nation's largest supplier of industrial gases.
AES Corp., a national power company that owns coal-fired power plants near Buffalo, Johnson City in Broome County, and Cayuga and Seneca lakes in the Finger Lakes.
Battelle Labs, an Ohio-based company that manages laboratories for the U.S. Energy Department and was part of the FutureGen proposal.
The consortium, which also includes the state University of New York at Buffalo, will seek federal grants, according to a state press release.
The project requires approval from the state Department of Environmental Conservation and also must receive a state permit before it can inject CO2 underground.
Brian Nearing can be reached at 454-5094 or by e-mail at bnearing@timesunion.com.

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In 2006, Gov. George Pataki vetoed a law to support the Jamestown plant through tax incentives under the Empire State Development Zone program.
Pataki wrote ``the proposed plant may be inconsistent with our efforts over the last 12 years to improve the quality of our natural environment and reduce the emission of harmful greenhouse gases.''
The new state budget included just $400,000 for the planned 50-megawatt plant.
Paterson spokesman Errol Cockfield said the state is awarding a $6 million grant from the Empire State Development Corp., $400,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and $400,000 from the state Senate.
Jamestown's project would use pure oxygen during burning of coal, which could produce CO2 easier to capture before escaping up the smokestack.

My a@# hurts already..........

SHOW ME THE MONEY TRAIL..........

has anyone seen BenDover????????

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Senate Republicans block Big Oil windfall profits tax
BY H. JOSEF HEBERT The Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.
    GOP senators shoved aside the Democratic proposal, arguing that punishing Big Oil won’t do a thing to lower the $4-a-gallon-price of gasoline that is sending economic waves across the country. High prices at the pump are threatening everything from summer vacations to Meals on Wheels deliveries to the elderly.
    The Democratic energy package would have imposed a 25 percent tax on any “unreasonable” profi ts of the five largest U.S. oil companies, which together made $36 billion during the first three months of the year. It also would have given the government more power to address oil market speculation, opened the way for antitrust actions against countries belonging to the OPEC oil cartel, and made energy price gouging a federal crime.
    “Americans are furious about what’s going on,” declared Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. He said they want Congress to do something about oil company profi ts and the “orgy of speculation” on oil markets.
    But Republican leaders said the Democrats’ plan would do harm rather than good — and they kept the legislation from being brought up for debate and amendments.
    On world markets, oil prices retreated a bit Tuesday but remained above $131 a barrel. Gasoline prices edged even higher to a nationwide record average of $4.04 a gallon.
    At the Capitol, Democratic leaders needed 60 votes and they got only 51 senators’ support, including seven Republicans who bucked their party leaders. Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, a state tied closely to the oil industry, was the only Democrat opposing the bill.
    “We are hurting as a country. We’re hurting individually as Americans and the other side says, ‘Do nothing. Don’t even debate the issue,’ ” complained Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
    “Average citizens are scratching their heads and saying, what’s wrong with Washington,” said Schumer.
    GOP opponents argued that little was to be gained by imposing new taxes on the five U.S. oil giants: Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Shell Oil Co., BP America Inc. and ConocoPhilips Co.
    While these companies may be huge, they don’t set world oil prices and raising their taxes would discourage domestic oil production, the Republicans said of the Democrats’ plan.
    “In the middle of what some are calling the biggest energy shock in a generation . . . they proposed as a solution, of all things, a windfall profits tax,” Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky chided the Democrats. He called their proposal “a gimmick” that would not lower gasoline prices and only hold back domestic oil production.
    “The American people are clamoring for relief at the pump,” agreed Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., but “they will get exactly what they don’t want” under the Democrats’ plan — higher prices and an increase in oil imports.
    The bill’s supporters argued that their proposal was different from the windfall profits taxes of the early 1980s that thwarted domestic production and led to a rise in imports. The oil companies could avoid the tax by using their “windfall” to push alternative energy programs or refinery expansions, they said.
    Shortly after the oil tax vote, Republicans blocked a second proposal that would extend tax breaks that have either expired or are scheduled to end this year for wind, solar and other alternative energy development, and for the promotion of energy efficiency and conservation.
    Again Democrats couldn’t get the 60 votes to overcome a GOP filibuster.
    Neither Republican presidential candidate John McCain nor his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, were in Washington to cast votes on the energy issue on Tuesday.
    Obama, in a statement, said Republicans had “turned a blind eye to the plight of America’s working families” by refusing to take up the energy legislation. Obama has supported additional taxes on the oil companies. McCain is opposed to such taxes and has proposed across-the-aboard tax reductions for industry as a way to help the economy.

I noticed at the Cumberland Farms on Duanesburg Road, yesterday gas was $4.19 and Ethanol was $3.05. Today gas was $4.11 and Ethanol was $3.06. Ethanol was $2.89 when it was first available.

Last night's news said to expect gas prices to be $5.00/gal by July 4th.

Is the $3.05 ethanol the new 85% ethanol that some stations are putting in?

In the Northwest Airlines inflight magazine the CEO said the 747-400 jet flying Minniapolis to Tokyo/Narita Japan burns 44,000 gallons of jet fuel ONE WAY- How much is jet fuel ?
They are removing ovens that arent needed- adding lightweight beverage carts basicly reducing weight-

American Airlines points out that by polishing the metal skin- instead of using paint saves about 1000 lbs.

Most of us use a 3500 lb car to haul our 200 lb a$$ around-
Has anyone Googled " how to get better gas milage ? " Well wade though the list a DO SOMETHING-
Maybe just take the junk out of your trunk might be a good start-keep air in your tires-  buy a turbinater- lets hear what your doing-  beside complaining.

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Is the $3.05 ethanol the new 85% ethanol that some stations are putting in?

Yes.

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GOP opponents argued that little was to be gained by imposing new taxes on the five U.S. oil giants: Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Shell Oil Co., BP America Inc. and ConocoPhilips Co.

The unions are invested into these companies for their pensions too.......not to mention those loners.....

No land tax cap and billions in revenue from big oil and war effort and subprime=prices going up

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Gas prices expected to level off Gov’t predicts $4 a gallon for most of 2009
BY H. JOSEF HEBERT The Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Gasoline prices should peak at $4.15 a gallon this summer, the government says — finally an encouraging word for motorists who might be thinking the cost of a fill-up will just keep climbing.
    But wait: The predicted relief is pretty modest. Prices at the pump are likely to stay around $4 a gallon much of next year, according to Wednesday’s projections by the Energy Department’s statistical agency.
    Oh, and the government tends to err on the optimistic side.
    Guy Caruso, head of the federal Energy Information Administration, delivered the sober news at a congressional hearing on energy prices and the future of oil.
    Even as he spoke, oil prices jumped again, edging for a time above $138 a barrel and putting yet more upward pressure on gasoline prices. By the end of the day the market seemed ready to set new records above $140 a barrel.
    A drop in gasoline inventories, concerns about hurricanes that could disrupt Gulf of Mexico supplies and, most importantly, the high oil prices all have contributed to a belief that the upward spiral of gasoline costs will continue at least for a few months, according to Caruso as well as private energy experts.
    Motorists are paying $4.05 a gallon on average nationwide and considerably more in some parts of the country, according to a survey of gas stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. That’s an increase of nearly $1 a gallon since January.
    And little relief is in sight.
    Prices are likely to remain close to or above $4 for the rest of the year and average $3.92 a gallon in 2009, the Energy Department agency forecast.
    Crude oil prices are expected to average $126 a barrel in 2009, or $4 a barrel higher than this year, as oil supplies and demand will remain tight, Caruso told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
    “The consensus view,” said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., the committee’s chairman, “is that oil above $100 a barrel is going to be with us for some time.” The Energy Department’s statistical agency projects oil prices declining to $86 a barrel in 2010 but then increasing to $107 by 2015. Markey said he doubted those numbers and noted that EIA projections in the past have been overly optimistic.

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(CNN) -- Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren't profitable enough even with gasoline selling at $4 per gallon.


The 2,220 stations make up about 1/5 of the Exxon and Mobil stations in the United States.

The nation's largest oil company, which earned nearly $41 billion last year, says it will sell more than 2,000 stations over the next few years.

"The fuels marketing sector is a very challenging market," ExxonMobil spokesperson Prem Nair said, adding that the company is feeling particular pressure from hypermarkets like Wal-Mart that sell gasoline.

ExxonMobil plans to sell 820 owned and operated stations as well as 1,400 stations leased to dealers. The 2,220 stations make up about 1/5 of the Exxon and Mobil stations in the United States. The company says the stations to be sold will continue to sell ExxonMobil product.

"As the highly competitive fuels marketing business in the U.S. continues to evolve, we believe this transition is the best way for ExxonMobil to compete and grow in the future," said Ben Soraci, U.S. director of retail sales for ExxonMobil.

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The states with the largest number of ExxonMobil-owned stations are California and New York, each with more than 200. ExxonMobil also has a large concentration of stations in Texas, Florida, Maryland, Tennessee and Virginia.