Are U. S. Gasoline Prices Really All that Bad?

With U.S. retail gasoline prices “going through the roof”, would it help if we took a minute to look at gas prices in a few other countries? These are the latest average prices I could find for Premium gasoline as of May 14, 2007.**

France $6.72 per gallon

Italy $6.73 per gallon

Belgium $6.77 per gallon

Germany $7.08 per gallon

United Kingdom $7.12 per gallon

Netherlands $7.75 per gallon

U.S. $3.28 per gallon

Feeling better yet? Not really, huh? OK, to perhaps help put our current U.S. gasoline prices in perspective, here are the prices we are paying (as of 5/22/07) per gallon for various products available in our local Wal-Mart…

V8 Vegetable Juice

1.36 L for $2.04 $5.68 per gallon

Minute Maid Premium Orange Juice

One-half gallon for $2.98 $5.96 per gallon

Tropicana Cranberry Cocktail

1.75 L for $3.14 $6.80 per gallon

Nesquik Chocolate Milk

1 pt for $1.14 $9.12 per gallon

Kingsford Charcoal Lighter

2 qt for $5.47 $10.94 per gallon

Windex Glass Cleaner

1 qt for $2.92 $11.68 per gallon

Schweppes Tonic Water

1 L for $3.75 $14.21 per gallon

Wish-Bone Italian Dressing

709 ml for $2.88 $15.39 per gallon

Listerine Mouthwash

1.5 L for $7.32 $18.49 per gallon

Bertolli Extra Light Olive Oil

500 ml for $6.68 $50.61 per gallon

Vicks NyQuil

295 ml for $5.87 $75.35 per gallon

Old English Scratch Cover

236 ml for $4.81 $77.21 per gallon

Off! Deep Woods Insect Repellant

266 ml for $6.62 $94.30 per gallon

Absolut Vodka

750 ml for $18.75 $94.70 per gallon

Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey

750 ml for $21.67 $109.44 per gallon

Banana Boat Tanning Oil

236 ml for $ 6.89 $110.59 per gallon

Bic Wite-Out

22 ml for $1.37 $236.21 per gallon

Drakkar Noir “Natural Spray” (masculine fragrance by Guy Laroche)

100 ml for $41.96 $1,589.39 per gallon

Feeling MUCH better now? Nah, me neither. Of course, I can remember when gasoline was 23.9 cents a gallon. And yes, that does make me really, really old. Let’s just forget I ever mentioned it…

**Fuel prices taken from the Energy Information Administration at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html

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