Anyone who owns a car, or a newspaper for that matter, knows that gas prices are a hot topic of conversation these days. England has had its share of petrol panic lately, with motorists running to fill up their tanks and fighting over gasoline. The latest figures coming from petrolprices.com has the litre price at 142p at the moment.
This is Money, together with commercial insurance specialist Staveley Head recently took a look at the top ten most expensive places in the world for gasoline. They also took a look at average monthly salaries in each of these places and analyzed just how much of a normal monthly salary goes to petrol.
Here’s the top ten list of places where you don’t want to be buying your gas.
10. Belgium: one litre of unleaded in pence is 140.8p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 8.7%.
9. Eritrea: one litre of unleaded in pence is 141p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 61.1%.
8. Sweden: one litre of unleaded in pence is 141.3p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 7.7%.
7. Britain: one litre of unleaded in pence is 142p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 10.3%.
6. Denmark: one litre of unleaded in pence is 143p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 8.1%.
5. Greece: one litre of unleaded in pence is 145p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 25.4%.
4. Italy: one litre of unleaded in pence is 146p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 10%.
3. Netherlands: one litre of unleaded in pence is 148p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 10%.
2. Turkey: one litre of unleaded in pence is 162p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 34.2%.
1. Norway: one litre of unleaded in pence is 164p and the percentage of income spent on petrol is 7.4%.
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