tracys2cents

Have the gasoline/petrol prices doubled in the past two years in your country?

mikemo

Not in Mexico - a producer.
Natural gas and LP are imported and increasing quickly.
However, with the left leaning aspects of Central and South America...
M

suze

You might get more replies if you post this question on Europe, Asia, Latin America boards since you are wanting responses from people "overseas".

Statia

The prices have definitely gone up here in the West Indies, but they haven't quite doubled. Thank goodness I can't drive anywhere over 8 square miles or I'd probably be broke since the prices were quite high here to begin with.

More so than the prices is my recent problem of trying to conserve when the gas station runs out of gas for a week or more at a time.

hsv

tracy,

over here in Germany, I would think so, yes.
One litre of super unleaded retails for around € 1.15 nowadays, equalling about US$ 5.20 per gallon.
As I am not aware that there was a tax increase over the last two years on gas (more than 80 % of the price are taxes anyway), there must have been a substantial increase in the price of the product.
Whether it has actually doubled over the last two years is hard to say, as I don't recall exact prices from then. But I should think increases have been at least 50 %.

This, BTW, doesn't come as much of a surprise given the situation on the world markets, partly due to some political and factual action taken by some nations in one of the oil producing regions...

tracys2cents

Thanks suze - I guess you don't realize that people overseas DO travel to the United States, and read the U.S. forum!

suze

Of course I realize that.

Believe me, more Europeans are on the Europe board than are on the United States board on a regular basis. A lot more.