Well, I’ve seen gas prices go up as high as $3.79 a gallon this week! It’s funny to think that it wasn’t that long ago that $2.79 would have looked horrendous. Now it would be hugely welcome!

And even at that high of a price, we’re still better off than much of the rest of the world. Considering how little of the raw materials we actually get from our own land, that IS pretty amazing.

According to a CNN/Money story, the cost in US Dollars for a gallon of gas in Amsterdam is $6.48!

Maybe you’d rather live in Cairo, where it’s only 65 CENTS per gallon! Wow!

Apparently much of Europe taxes their gasoline pretty heavily; sometimes it’s up to 75% of the cost of the fuel! It seems that the U.S. is somewhere in the middle pricewise worldwide. Maybe it’s not so bad, just that we’re not used to it. Click the link above to read more about gas prices around the world and what affects them.

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