Wednesday, 27. June 2007
Topic: NEWS english - on June 27, 2007 at 10:04:00 AM CEST
The Price of Gas Around the World
The next time you pull into the station for a fill-up, keep this in mind before you curse the prices: people elsewhere have it a lot worse than we do in America (and we tend to gripe about it the most, it seems!) Take Asia for instance -- Hong Kong averages a whopping $6.30 per gallon, with Seoul, South Korea not too far behind. Europe also pays well above what we do in America. London, Berlin, Oslo, and Paris are all well above $6 a gallon. On the low end of the spectrum, places in the Middle East like Kuwait City and Tehran, Iran pay under $0.50 for their gas. Big surprise there.
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