Gas prices from around the world (what each country is paying per gallon relative to the US dollar)

To anyone who is skeptical that high gases prices are not primarily being driven up by international events, here is a list of what other countries are paying for gas from around the world as of June 2022. In order to properly address the current problems the world is facing, it is imperative that we first understand what are the root causes of these problems


Australia $5.45
Belgium $8.10
Benin $3.73
Brazil $5.78
Canada $6.49
China $5.50
Denmark $10.02
France $8.06
Finland $9.64
Germany $8.80
Greece $9.29
Hong Kong $11.21
Iceland $9.47
India $5.09
Ireland $7.91
Israel $8.24
Italy $7.78
Japan $4.85
Jordan $6.30
Kuwait $1.30
Madagascar $3.84
Malawi $6,32
Mexico $4.55
Mozambique $4.59
Netherlands $9.20
Norway $10.70
Pakistan $3.43
Poland $6.52
Qatar $2.18
Russia $3.03
Saudi Arabia $2.35
Sierra Leone $4.34
Singapore $8.76
Sweden $9.05
Turkey $5.80
Ukraine $6.51
United Kingdom $8.17
United States $4.79
Zimbabwe $5.46

https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/shopping/cars/604410/gas-prices-around-the-world

 

What’s the difference between us and Saudi Arabia?

 

According to this metric, our sanctions against Russia are being payed by American and European consumers instead of Russians...

 

We refuse to nationalize our gas and oil on public land.

 

CA over here feeling like Poland

 

With Biden America is always last. He even gave our oil to China.


Stunning Amount Of Oil Released By Biden Found Its Way To China, Other Countries

Millions of barrels of oil President Joe Biden released from the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve found their way to European and Asian nations, including China, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters.

Biden has frequently touted the release of one million barrels of oil per day as an “unprecedented” move to “provide a historic amount of supply” as Americans face surging prices at the pumps. Indeed, the national average price of gas in the United States is currently $4.80 per gallon, according to AAA, with the national average temporarily surpassing $5.00 per gallon last month.
However, Reuters found through customs data that at least five million barrels of oil were exported to Europe and Asia last month as the strategic reserve drains to its lowest level since 1986. American oil refiner Phillips 66, for instance, shipped 470,000 barrels of sour crude from Texas to Trieste, Italy, while Atlantic Trading & Marketing (ATMI) — a division of French entity TotalEnergies — exported two cargoes of 560,000 barrels each.
Meanwhile, industry sources told the outlet that more crude oil was sent to China, India, and the Netherlands.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/stunning-amount-of-oil-released-by-biden-found-its-way-to-china-other-countries?fbclid=IwAR3vE6xDCqyNSkJnWigeBgyScxn2-w88JlnKnjjIAe_nFB51x9U39DZ2-2s

 

Kuwait it is then

 

So here we go again with the liberal one world talking point. America used to be an exceptional country that was superior to the rest of the world. Americans were superior and expected to be superior. Now, liberals no longer expect America to be superior and welcome the comeupance of America and celibrate being brought down to the level of the rest of the world.

The US is an energy producer. We could produce more. It is not the rest of the world that is responsible for the last refinery being built in the US since 1976. The policies of the US government policies have ensured there will be no new refineries built. Government policies have resulted in many US refineries being shut down to switch over to biofuel production. And it is the US government that inflated our currency by pumping millions of stimulus money into the economy that had a deminished production capacity due to covid. Keynes himself said a stimulus was only appropriate as a short term measure when there was EXCESS PRODUCTION CAPACITY.

Stop with the Biden is a victim excuses and tell us what solutions Biden offers to solve the problem. The Dems need better talking point before the midterms. Cause telling us what a great job Biden is doing is like pissing down someone's back and then telling them it is raining.

The Dems in action.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/13/gas-p...art-of-bidens-plan-to-eliminate-fossil-fuels/

 

Is oil a national security issue? It’s a yes or no question.

 

You wont get a yes or no answer.

 

Sure I think that’s fair to say

 

I know. He will mention a former president or a date in early January and end with a lol.

 

Oh my god, you just proved me to be wrong, that’s never happened before, it’s a first.

 

I’ve done it many times, this is just the first time you admitted it
Since it’s a national security issue, shouldn’t we nationalize it?

 

So would you advocate being a net importer over being a net exporter of oil, or would you advocate for nationalizing our oil production?

 

From the OP link..

Isn't that just what we have been trying to hammer home Domestic extraction is the hedge on price fluctuation, just as the OP has linked

 

NO, everything the Gov touches fails.. Learn to or return to a time we as a country supply the more critical products we rely on..

 

You forgot to mention that these people were paying super high gas prices way before our prices shot up.

 

What's the difference? Public land demonstrates the pitfalls of having the Government oversee it's use! The only reason we are not lined up at the pumps is because of PRIVATE extraction where the U.S. "BLM" has very limited authority on/over

 

Yeah, it's called capitalism and the free market. What is Biden supposed to do once the oil is released, take over the exporting companies? LOL! Your head would explode.

Why do you all claim to be capitalists when every time there is a problem, you want the government to solve it?

 

$2.24.

 

Bloody Hell.

 

Yep! They don’t realise how much more superior we Aussies are

 

Well for starters, the biggest oil company in Saudi Arabia that makes up the majority of their oil production is socialized. That is to say it is government run rather than being run by the private sector. Also, Saudi Arabia's overall local demand for oil is about 1/6th of the US's demand for oil. Thus Saudi Arabia is a bigger net exporter of oil, most of the oil they produce is owned by the government, and is sold to foreign countries

That's not necessarily true, it is true for some countries, but many of the countries listed had gas prices around the US's level before prices shot up. In fact, countries like Japan were known to have cheaper gas than the US before prices shot up.

 

A general logical principle before joining a discussion is to know what you are actually talking about. The OPEC countries referred to control their gas prices because their oil is mostly government run. The countries that are OPEC members are Algeria, Angola, Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

There's nothing factually inaccurate about the the part of your post that was pasted from the article, but before discussing this, it is important that you know what it actually means. It is also important to note that US oil production has hit its all time high in 2022. That is to say, we are producing more oil this year than any year in our country's entire history. We could theoretically nationalize our oil like the OPEC members, increase government spending on subsidies and production, and that would indeed decrease our gas prices.. but I'm not sure if that's what you are actually advocating for