Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Want to save 90 dollars fast? Become a gas smuggler.


Foreign Policy magazine has a pretty cool feature comparing different gas prices around the world. The low is Turkmenistan, where it costs $1.06 to fill up a Honda Civic. The high is Turkey, where you'd be paying $93.98 to fill up that same Civic. In the U.S. it costs around $31.42 .

There's also an interesting map that highlights the biggest differential between gas prices in neighboring countries. If, for example, someone from Turkey were to drive into their neighbor Iran to gets gas, they would be saving $89.49 each time they filled up the tank. (Iran $4.49 vs. Turkey $93.98).

The U.S., by the way, consumes more oil than the next highest 20 countries combined. Wow. The next five are Japan, China, Canada, Russia, Germany.

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