What a gallon costs
What a gallon of gasoline costs in the latest week across the U.S. and the EU, in dollars, and how much of the EU price is tax.
Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices and Gasoline Pump Components History (public domain). European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (© European Commission; the notice in its workbook says reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged). European Central Bank, euro reference rates (free use with the ECB cited as the source). Dollar-per-gallon figures for the EU are data.here's own conversion and are not published by the Commission or the ECB. EU tax shares are calculated from the Commission's prices with and without taxes. Prices are not adjusted for inflation. Both prices include taxes. U.S. regular and Euro-super 95 are different grades. The Commission says comparisons between countries "shall be carefully made" and are "of limited validity" because of differences in product quality, marketing and market structure.
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