Gasoline Prices

Here in the US the average family pays about $3,000 per year for
gasoline. Or about 900 gallons per year.
If you lived in Venezula you would be paying about $252 for your
family's yearly gasoline bill for your car.
If you lived in the Netherlands your bill would be about $8,500.
Or doing the numbers a different way we find that the average miles driven by people in the US is 15,000 miles. Lets assume 18mpg. That translates to 833 gallons per year. The costs in each country would be:
Venezula $234
US $2,900
Netherlands $7,800
As you can see both ways of estimating the costs give similar figures.
And now three questions:
The first question is "Why do these countries have such widely differing prices for gasoline?"
Next is what is the "Right price" we should be paying?
And third, "What would be the effect on the US economy if we had gas prices the same as Venezuela? The Netherlands?

Re: High curbs in Augusta

This is good!  Part of it is a total fabrication, but what makes it so good is that it was made to look like a newspaper clipping that had been scanned in.  I have only run into this a couple of times before and did some background research on this kind of thing.  There is actually a website that lets you do some simple things and make something that looks like a 'clipping'.

I have observed that when I get nailed with a hoax it is generally when I agree with the sentiments of the hoax.  For example I was recently nailed by one of the many Social Security hoaxes.  It was close to the truth and had some things that I knew to be factual (step one in getting you to forward a hoax) and it agreed with my thoughts on the SS program (step two in getting you to forward a hoax, it has to be something you agree with or like.)  And lastly, it should be seen as being from a credible source. This one looks like a newspaper clipping and we all know if it is in the paper it has been checked out by the editorial staff.

It is a tricky world.  We all get nailed occasionally.