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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ALBundy" data-source="post: 189076" data-attributes="member: 15">USA is a huge country, it all depends on where you live.  Certain states that are located nearer to the refineries will have cheaper petrol. In oklahoma (i just checked), petrol or gas as they called it is about USD 2.00. So that works out to be RM 1.88 per liter. This issue was already brought up to the recent Parliment sitting and the reply was the government needed to recover earlier subsidies incurred. Please check the hansard. Anytime when crude oil prices dip below USD 60 a barrel, we are more or less paying ""real"" fuel prices. Likewise, please do similar calculation when gas prices was less than 1 USD per gallon, but it was RM 1.09 in Malaysia, with exchange rate 1USD=RM2.46 (in the early 90s). That was during my time in the states and wasnt all of us aware that US has one of the cheapest oil prices there and hence all the big engine capacity cars? Why did we pay double back then when crude oil prices were hovering around USD 15/barrel?? Heads I win, tails you lose.  Its true, personal tax is higher there, but at least there is no toll, cheaper cars, cheaper houses (dollar to dollar basis), cheaper food, cheaper electrical appliances, plenty of free public amenities and etc. At the end of the day, there is more disposable income for the family. How many here could afford a holiday in the summer like the majority of the Americans?</blockquote>