Now that gas prices have dropped so dramatically in the US, have they come down in Europe as well? We'll be in France and Italy for the next 2 weeks. What are the current prices?

This will give you some idea.

http://www.angelfire.com/ri/EuroDelivery/gas.html

Here's a website that compiles average prices every two weeks.

http://www.iru.org/Services/Fuel/Welcome.E.html

As it is in the States, in general, prices are less off the main highways. Yesterday there was an 8 cent/liter difference between an Autobahn station and a atation a kilometer off the highway. That's about a 30 eurocent difference per gallon!

And in a reminder France to buy gas at supermarkets rather than gas stations - virtually every large supermarket sells gas, usually 10-15 centimes per litre cheaper.

If you intend to buy gas in a sumpermarket, do this during week days : on sundays, supermarket gas pumps are not manned and US credit cards won't work in the automatic pumps.

"on sundays, supermarket gas pumps are not manned"

Eh?

On Sundays round here you can't get to most supermarket petrol pumps for the queues.

Mind you, we haven't seen "manned" petrol pumps since about 1900.

also, when buyng at some hyper/mega supermarkets, if you purchase over 30 euros or so, they will give you a discount ticket for your next gas purchase at their pumps.

Flanneruk's remak makes me think i was not clear (not native english speaker here) i meant "completely unmanned" : 99% of the french pumps are automatic but in most cases you can PAY at a manned booth (but the super/hypermarkets pumps work with a chip/pin system when there is no employee present)

the underlying assumption of this question is that prices in europe dramatically increased as they did in the US. generally, tax is the reason for high petrol prices in europe. tax is a constant and the variable part of the price accounts for a much smaller portion of the price as compared to the US. prices did increase somewhat in europe but the average user hardly noticed - increases were about 5-10% maybe 15% over about 3 years ago (depends on the country). i believe that america experienced about 75% to 100% increase over the last few years?

to answer your question, no they really have not peeled back much (if at all) from the relatively modest increases of the last couple years.

Here in Dublin the current price €1.08 per ltr

Budman, when I used your link the page said "surveyed in October"..how recent is that or am I doing something wrong?

In Germany, gas is taxed at 65ct per liter plus a 16% tax is added to the final price including that tax. So actually, you pay tax on tax!

I just got that link off of google. sardog10's link is the one I was looking for but couldn't find the bookmark.