The folks at GOOD collected a sample of gas prices from throughout the industrialized Western world in this infographic:
Here are some more countries, via the Gasoline-Germany site:
- Afghanistan: $8.04
- Bolivia: $2.26
- Brazil: $5.99
- China: $4.47
- Greenland: $7.14
- Hong Kong: $7.67
- India: $4.57 (for 91 octane, on July 14, 2010)
- Iran: $1.47
- Iraq: $1.44
- Israel: $6.51 (on June 13, 2010)
- Russia: $3.68
- South Africa: $4.78
- Venezuela: $2.62 (for 91 octane)
And here’s a chart from The Economist in February, 2011 that shows the portion of gasoline prices attributable to duties and taxes in each nation:
Back to GOOD for an infographic on how a gallon of gas compares in price to a gallon of other liquids.
