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Dweezil Dwarftosser wrote:

John Mullen wrote:

Here in Scotland diesel is currently going for 81.9p per litre.
That is about $5.50 a USg. Just thought you might be interested.

I'm more interested in why the price of European gas
hasn't doubled in price since 1985, like it has in the
US.

Actually, in steady dollars, gas prices in the US right now are pretty
much the same as they were in 1985. The only difference is inflation
for nineteen years.

Between 1975-85, gas in Germany ran about $4 per US gallon
- while back home it was a little more than a dollar.

In 1985, gas prices were fairly much in line between Germany and the US,
once you allowed for the much higher gas taxes in Germany.

If you're concerned with price differentials, I'd suggest complaining to
the German authorities, who are making about 10% of their tax revenues
off of gas and diesel taxes (versus 3% in the US).

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