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Pastimes : Gasoline Prices Worldwide -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (63)	10/28/2007 5:32:51 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 126

You're discussing gasoline prices a lot, but you are forgetting that this is just about taxing, and when talking taxation, you need to look at the whole package. Where I live, a person could spend his wage this way: 45% Tax 22% Place to live 10% Car 0% Health insurance less than 1% Other kinds of insurances 2% Telephony, internet 15% Food 5% For the rest =100% Total Of the car costs, only a third is gasoline, since the price of the car itself is taxed about 225% and service is expensive because of high labor wages. The biggest expenses in our lives are: Our house, our car, children, in that order. But we don't spend money on insurances. Other countries do this in much different ways. For instance, some countries have less tax on wage and more tax on employers. Some countries, like Switzerland, have health insurances that you need to pay for. I know, that a lower tax on gasoline would mean a higher tax somewhere else, so I don't complain about the tax on gasoline - I usually just complain about having to pay tax :)

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (63)	11/25/2007 7:02:42 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Respond to of 126

Germany (CEE), latest check after 4 Months: For the 98 gasoline, the price reached $2.26 per litre. (E1.525*1.485). This makes $8.55 per gallon (US, liquid). This is nearly the same as in the UK, with $8.60 pg. In Norway with so much crude nearby, gas is a little bit more expensive: Its price: $9.18 per gallon.

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (63)	2/23/2008 6:01:47 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 126

Netherlands and Norway (Europe): For the 98 gasoline, the price reached $2.37 per litre. (E1.61.485). This equals $9 per gallon (US, liquid).* In the other areas (Belgium Germany Italy...) prices are generally over $8, around 8.15 to 8.25 pg It is remarkable that in most Eastern Countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Czechia, Hungary), prices crossed 1E/L, averaging 1.2E, or $6.75 pg Russia is the only exception: Price remains stable at $4 pg