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06-11-2008, 12:42 PM
|  | whirling dervisher | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Spin me
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| | | World gas prices
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.
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
Source: air-inc.com
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06-11-2008, 01:25 PM
| | whirling dervisher | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Spin me
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| | | How has your life changed? Obama promises change--so, is this the beginning to a new future? And how will you adapt to it?
This is how I prepared for change:
Firstly, I began searching for work closer to home.
I connected with my local community to see where I fit in.
I established a marketing concept based on searching for work locally.
I moved to a neighborhood that fulfills the needs of myself as well as my partner.
We have many hobbies and interests that we enjoy at home (including the internet).
We bought mountain bikes and can ride into town rather than going farther distances with the autos.
We own motorcycles which get over 45 mpg.
We keep our spending habits down to the minimum, so gasoline is budgeted.
I work from home 50% of the time.
We live more green.
--just a few ideas. How can you adapt to less driving?
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Marerophilia:
A depth of love that youth can seldom appreciate or communicate;
A love that never can die for it is a wild seed living inside us, and it is what it is;
Love: that which bonds the reality of one's being to the mystery of the unknown;
Wildflowers: evidence revealed."
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Last edited by Sophia_ : 06-11-2008 at 01:28 PM.
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06-11-2008, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Sophia_  Croatia Zagreb $4.81 | haha, this is fucking hilarious. 
TODAY, one liter of gas in croatia is between 9,20 HRK and 9,84 HRK.
that's between 7,49 $ and 8,02 $ for a gallon.
so, yeah, it's insane.  |
06-11-2008, 04:09 PM
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| | those prices are from march 2005. |
06-11-2008, 05:06 PM
|  | chanel meth pipe. | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 7th ring of hell?
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| | | i love how whenever sophia makes a thread that has potential for intelligent discussion its completely reduced to shambles when you realize she spawned the thread.
thanks sophia. now could you not suck so much? |
06-11-2008, 05:30 PM
| | whirling dervisher | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Spin me
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| | | Obama wants "Change".
What's our incentive to change? Why You Should Embrace $4 Gasoline Quote:
There's only one ultimate solution to the oil dilemma: to consume less oil.
Beyond the argument over who's to blame for $4 gas lies the reasoning that nothing will happen without higher prices getting us in gear. If gas were cheap, there would be no incentive to change. No one would care about developing new technologies, no one would bother driving more efficient cars, and no one would give a horse's patoot about conservation. If you can convince anyone that lower gas prices will entice people to cut back on consumption and give entrepreneurs an incentive to develop new technologies, you deserve the Ron Popeil award for ingenious sales skills. It just won't happen. Something as engrained in our culture as deeply as gasoline will cling to the "if-it-ain't-broke-why-fix-it" mentality until something, like higher prices, "breaks" it.
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Marerophilia:
A depth of love that youth can seldom appreciate or communicate;
A love that never can die for it is a wild seed living inside us, and it is what it is;
Love: that which bonds the reality of one's being to the mystery of the unknown;
Wildflowers: evidence revealed."
~~carefulcarpenter |
06-11-2008, 05:38 PM
| | whirling dervisher | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Spin me
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Originally Posted by shitty weave i love how whenever sophia makes a thread that has potential for intelligent discussion its completely reduced to shambles when you realize she spawned the thread.
thanks sophia. now could you not suck so much? | I'm not afraid to suck in the name of truth and knowledge. I accept people for who they are, but I don't have to believe their bs to feel validated.
There are valid reasons why gas is priced the way it is. Come on--Venezuela ($.17) ppg and $4.59 in California? Both are cheap compared to Europe.
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Marerophilia:
A depth of love that youth can seldom appreciate or communicate;
A love that never can die for it is a wild seed living inside us, and it is what it is;
Love: that which bonds the reality of one's being to the mystery of the unknown;
Wildflowers: evidence revealed."
~~carefulcarpenter |
06-11-2008, 05:53 PM
|  | Rhapsody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 100 Club
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| | | Maybe you should find current prices? |
06-11-2008, 05:56 PM
|  | be still, cody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port-au-patois
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Originally Posted by Sophia_ I'm not afraid to suck | that's the whole fucking problem
wasn't there a thread on this just now, and couldn't you have posted the list there?
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Last edited by kesh : 06-11-2008 at 06:02 PM.
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06-11-2008, 06:00 PM
| | whirling dervisher | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Spin me
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Originally Posted by onewaynotgrrl Maybe you should find current prices? | I googled world gas prices and this comparative list was at the top= most current. We can start our own.
What's the current price in your area?
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Marerophilia:
A depth of love that youth can seldom appreciate or communicate;
A love that never can die for it is a wild seed living inside us, and it is what it is;
Love: that which bonds the reality of one's being to the mystery of the unknown;
Wildflowers: evidence revealed."
~~carefulcarpenter |
06-11-2008, 06:04 PM
| | whirling dervisher | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Spin me
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Originally Posted by kesh that's the whole fucking problem | Personal growth requires one to accept that they suck--but "no" it isn't the "whole fucking problem". I'm not so attached to my own belief system or ego-consciousness that I worry about sucking. Now, if I did intentional harm to others, physically or spiritually, then I would go beyond sucking to other pathologies that engage in self-denial, repression, avoidance, misperception, hooliganism, etc. 
Increasing gas prices are far from evil intent or intentional spirit-breaking, control, lying, war, etc. We can choose to change or not, but we must face the personal responsibility of resistance to change(physical or spiritual).
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Marerophilia:
A depth of love that youth can seldom appreciate or communicate;
A love that never can die for it is a wild seed living inside us, and it is what it is;
Love: that which bonds the reality of one's being to the mystery of the unknown;
Wildflowers: evidence revealed."
~~carefulcarpenter
Last edited by Sophia_ : 06-11-2008 at 06:08 PM.
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06-11-2008, 06:39 PM
|  | gonna give it 35% | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: noodlebox
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Originally Posted by onewaynotgrrl Maybe you should find current prices? | i was about to say that. in 2005 we were still paying around $1, its about 60c mroe than that now.
well im going back to the real thread.
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