$55 Per Gallon of Premium Gasoline in Fliderstadt! Look at These Insane Gas Prices In Germany and Other European Nations

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:07

In Germany in the town of Filderstadt, customers could not believe their eyes at one Esso gas station. After all, there was a reason: the price was Euro 9.99 per liter for premium gasoline or a staggering $55 per gallon.

The Filderstadt price per liter of 9.99 Euros of premium gasoline was a special circumstance. Because the tank holding the gasoline was very close to empty, the service station owner wanted to discourage people from using the premium gasoline so he raised the price exorbitantly high while the lesser grade was Euro 1.51 per liter which is the equivalent of about $8.20 a gallon

The average price per gallon of gasoline in Germany and the Netherlands is now more than $9.00 per gallon and prices also exceed $8.00 per gallon in other European nations.

Source} kurier.at

In Germany the "super" gasoline (gasolina premium) rose from 1.46 euro per liter in January to 1.55 euro per liter in April, for an increase of 6%. In the same time, diesel rose from 1.30 euro per liter (Jan-2011) to 1.42 euro per liter in April for an increase of 9%. (source: gasoline-germany.com - Recent years' prices superbenzin2011)

European gasoline prices are reaching new record highs.

The table shows the average price per gallon in dollars including taxes per gallon for unleaded gasoline on April 11, 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.

Belgium	France	Germany	Italy	Netherlands	UK	US
8.62	8.36	9.10	8.46	9.21	8.26	4.03

Source:U.S. Energy Information Agency. www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.xls (This is a Microsoft Excel chart)

The following table ranks the price of gasoline per liter from the highest to the lowest as of April 2011 for 141 nations, according to Nation Master. Some of the prices in the table below are dated and may be as old as 2002.

Energy Statistics > Gasoline prices (most recent) by country

1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters To determine the price per gallon multiply the liter price by 3.78.

Showing latest available data.

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	Uruguay:	1.95
# 2	United Kingdom:	1.92
# 3	Israel:	1.87
# 4	Argentina:	1.75
= 5	Japan:	1.74
= 5	Finland:	1.74
# 7	Iceland:	1.72
# 8	Netherlands:	1.69
= 9	Denmark:	1.66
= 9	Burundi:	1.66
# 11	Zambia:	1.64
= 12	Central African Republic:	1.62
= 12	France:	1.62
# 14	Italy:	1.59
# 15	Belgium:	1.57
# 16	Sweden:	1.54
= 17	Brazil:	1.51
= 17	Korea, South:	1.51
# 19	Germany:	1.49
= 20	Korea, North:	1.46
= 20	Rwanda:	1.46
# 22	Turkey:	1.44
# 23	Uganda:	1.41
= 24	Zimbabwe:	1.39
= 24	Guinea:	1.39
= 26	Austria:	1.34
= 26	Morocco:	1.34
= 26	Sierra Leone:	1.34
# 29	Hungary:	1.33
= 30	Bolivia:	1.31
= 30	Peru:	1.31
# 32	Switzerland:	1.28
= 33	Czech Republic:	1.26
= 33	Portugal:	1.26
= 35	Madagascar:	1.25
= 35	Croatia:	1.25
= 35	Poland:	1.25
= 35	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:	1.25
= 35	Cote d'Ivoire:	1.25
# 40	Tanzania:	1.23
# 41	Norway:	1.21
= 42	Senegal:	1.2
= 42	Spain:	1.2
= 44	Paraguay:	1.18
= 44	Ireland:	1.18
= 44	Greece:	1.18
= 47	Kenya:	1.16
= 47	Dominica:	1.16
= 49	Bulgaria:	1.15
= 49	Mali:	1.15
= 51	Slovakia:	1.13
= 51	Malawi:	1.13
= 53	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	1.11
= 53	Chad:	1.11
= 53	Burkina Faso:	1.11
= 53	Niger:	1.11
= 57	Mauritania:	1.1
= 57	El Salvador:	1.1
= 57	Latvia:	1.1
= 60	Sri Lanka:	1.08
= 60	Lithuania:	1.08
# 62	Costa Rica:	1.07
# 63	Burma:	1.06
= 64	Gambia, The:	1.05
= 64	Guinea-Bissau:	1.05
= 64	Haiti:	1.05
= 64	Chile:	1.05
= 68	Nepal:	1.03
= 68	Slovenia:	1.03
= 70	Honduras:	1.02
= 70	Nicaragua:	1.02
= 70	Jamaica:	1.02
= 73	Cambodia:	1
= 73	Cuba:	1
= 73	Mexico:	1
# 76	Somalia:	0.99
= 77	Estonia:	0.98
= 77	India:	0.98
= 79	Canada:	0.95
= 79	Bhutan:	0.95
= 81	Australia:	0.93
= 81	Albania:	0.93
= 83	Cameroon:	0.92
= 83	Mozambique:	0.92
= 83	Liberia:	0.92
= 83	Azerbaijan:	0.92
# 87	Armenia:	0.9
= 88	Congo, Democratic Republic of the:	0.87
= 88	Pakistan:	0.87
= 88	Gabon:	0.87
= 88	Lebanon:	0.87
= 88	Papua New Guinea:	0.87
= 88	Panama:	0.87
= 88	Guatemala:	0.87
# 95	South Africa:	0.82
= 96	Colombia:	0.8
= 96	Tunisia:	0.8
= 98	New Zealand:	0.79
= 98	Benin:	0.79
= 98	Togo:	0.79
= 101	Namibia:	0.77
= 101	United States:	0.77
= 103	Bangladesh:	0.75
= 103	Ethiopia:	0.75
= 103	Romania:	0.75
= 106	Jordan:	0.74
= 106	Tajikistan:	0.74
= 106	Moldova:	0.74
= 109	Kyrgyzstan:	0.72
= 109	Syria:	0.72
# 111	Uzbekistan:	0.7
# 112	Botswana:	0.69
# 113	Belarus:	0.68
# 114	Laos:	0.67
# 115	China:	0.66
= 116	Thailand:	0.64
= 116	Trinidad and Tobago:	0.64
= 118	Mongolia:	0.62
= 118	Vietnam:	0.62
= 120	Philippines:	0.61
= 120	Ukraine:	0.61
# 122	Kazakhstan:	0.59
# 123	Russia:	0.54
= 124	Ecuador:	0.51
= 124	Oman:	0.51
# 126	Angola:	0.49
= 127	Malaysia:	0.46
= 127	Sudan:	0.46
= 129	Nigeria:	0.44
= 129	Algeria:	0.44
# 131	Egypt:	0.43
= 132	Libya:	0.41
= 132	United Arab Emirates:	0.41
# 134	Saudi Arabia:	0.39
# 135	Kuwait:	0.34
# 136	Ghana:	0.33
# 137	Indonesia:	0.28
# 138	Venezuela:	0.2
# 139	Iran:	0.08
# 140	Iraq:	0.05
# 141	Turkmenistan:	0.03
	Weighted average:	1.0

DEFINITION: Ratio of premium gasoline price to world average

Units: Ratio of Gasoline Price to World Average
Units: Pump price for super gasoline (US$ per liter): Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of gasoline. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars, and the ratio of the gas price to the world average in the same time period was used in order to normalize the data. For more information, see World Development Indicators, Table 3.12.

SOURCE: German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Fuel Prices and Taxation (1999) and the electronic update for2000. Available from World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002, WDI table 3.12. via ciesin.org

Steven