Gas hogs

We Americans prefer not to think about our casual use of gas -- after all, we have a lot bigger distances to cover than those puny European nations, right? But when you look at this chart of gas prices around the world it's hard not to notice that once again we're down among the third world countries. (Most of Europe pays 2-3-fold what we yell about here, and most of the nations paying less than we do are big oil producers.) If gas prices better reflected their costs of production and pollution, they might spell the end of more than the Hummers on our roads...

(via kottke)