Pain at the Gas Pump.

1. Steve
   May 18th, 2006 at 6:36 am

   Much has been made recently of Venezuela's prices. "Gas is cheaper than water". Here in Canada it's $.98 per liter. A bottle of water at 7/11 is $1.25 for .5 liter.

2. darkbluedrew
   May 18th, 2006 at 8:26 am

   Living in South Florida, $2.59 would be a dream come true. The cheapest I gas I saw yesterday was $2.94, with the average at $2.99 right now.

3. pld
   May 18th, 2006 at 8:54 am

   In Norway, gas prices (regular) are about 7.45 dollars/gallon. So yeah, this cartoon really doesn't make sense for europeans.

4. Janedoh
   May 18th, 2006 at 10:02 am

   Ahhh the good old days when gas was cheap..er.
   I live in the Pacific Northwest and I just paid $3.20 for regular. My SUV friends used to tease me, they said my Subaru was 'so small' and 'cute'. 30mpg compared to 15mpg...it is cute isn't it.

5. Bank Locater
   May 18th, 2006 at 10:21 am

   I just paid $3.50 for regular in Central California.

6. Corblimeylimey
   May 18th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

   In England it's about $6.97 a gallon!

7. Amy
   May 18th, 2006 at 1:13 pm

   While the gasoline in Europe is more expensive per gallon, Americans also drive very far to work. I put in a little over 100 miles a day for a round trip just to go to work. Sitting in traffic for two hours just to travel 15 miles doesn't help either. With my compact, I fill up about 5 times every 2 weeks. At $3.55/gallon (Southern California) that's $100/week.

   And my commute isn't even that far compared to many of my friends' commutes!

   If gas were to cost as much as it did in Europe, some people would be paying more for gas than they did for rent!

8. Alex
   May 18th, 2006 at 3:06 pm

   The cartoon is a little out of date in terms of prices, but it's dead on in terms of sentiment.

   I think gas price will play a big role in the upcoming election in the US.

   I agree with Amy: the lack of viable public transportation in places like Southern California plus the long drive to work more than made up for the lower gas prices in the US as compared to Europe.

9. NyaR
   May 18th, 2006 at 3:10 pm

   in the sanfrancisco bay area we get 3.29 a gallon of regular unleaded.. 3.50 for supreme i believe

10. Emo1313
    May 19th, 2006 at 12:41 am

    Comes out to 3.62/gal in Canada, I put in 20$ today in Dallas Tx at 2.98... Guess living in Tx has some benifiets... And the public transport is completely unusable here...

11. intelnm
    March 20th, 2007 at 11:31 am

    gas here in the southwest is 2.45... i remember see it one time at 82 cent a gallon but it was gone the next day

12. pol x
    April 15th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    Hmm, I like that americans get their pants in a fankle about the CRAZY privce of petrol...huge cars, fuel kept low to keep lazy yanks happy.

    I can't imagine how this global warming lark happened!

13. Madisonnnnn
    October 6th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    WOW! Thats cheapp mannn!

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