Am I allowed to talk about his? Its just that I have been watching on the TV lots of riots, demonstrations and so on all over the world in frustration for fuel prices. I feel that the ability of people to adjust their lifestyles and driving habits, shuffle routines and re-prioritize expenditures seems to be about exhausted. Many people must be at their limit, they obviously just cannot pay any more or change any more either.

I wonder where this can lead?

Anyway, as this is truly a global community or friends here I just thought it would be interesting if we could avoid the politics and so on; convert our various currencies to US dollars; and if we work in liters (like the rest of the world does) multiply by 4.5 to come up with out local price for petrol per gallon (US.) (OK I know, its near enough anyway.)

Wanna join me on this? I'm very interested. I'll start:

In Australia we are paying $7.65 US/gallon.