Everyone is writing about this but I found this interesting article on CNN Money about the cost of gas worldwide and why gas is so cheap in the United States. It really threw me for a loop in terms of how good we have it here. The cost of gas in Europe averages over 8 dollars a gallon. Here are some most expensive and least expensive cities on the list.

Bosnia-Herzegovina $10.86 as gallon. This is of course if you are fortunate to survive one fill-up to the next. You can reload your AKA-47 for a 5 dollar surcharge…..

Caracas Venezuela: Not overseas but worthy of note at 12 cents a gallon. The only catch is that you have to live under a dictatorship and will probably be executed when you complain when it rises to 15 cents a gallon.

Moscow, Russia: .45 a gallon if and only if you run into one of the black market gasoline trucks that lurk in every dark underpass and pay a 100 dollar surcharge not to be mugged beaten and extorted.

Shanghai China: 1.48 a gallon, you won’t be executed for complaining of that rise to 1.49 but you and your entire family will be sent off to gasoline”re-education” camps and you’ll will certainly never gripe again no matter how high it goes. They are into the “long term” objectives…..

North Korea: Don’t know-It’s a state secret. They are still fueling their missiles with unleaded fuel and don’t want us to figure out how much it costs for them to fire one at us.

Nigeria: .38 cents a gallon. I did note that in addition to the 38 cents there is an optional 1000.00 dollar surcharge per gallon that goes to the deposed ruler of Zamunda who has One Million Dollars in a safe deposit box. He needs your grand to get the money out and will give you half if you immediately send him a money order. In the alternative you can leave your email address and it will be forwarded to all deposed Nigerian rulers who have secret money stashed away and need your grand to help them get it….

If you don’t want to travel to Nigeria you can call the U.S State Departments Nigeria 911 task force to get a list of deposed rulers who will take your grand to help them get their hidden millions….. In exchange for choosing a deposed ruler and sending him the money, in addition to your half of the millions you will get a 10 dollar free Nigerian gas voucher…

Saudi Arabia: 91 cents gallon-Women can only fill up on Mondays when there is a full moon between 1 and 1:30 am. If you’re caught filling up after that, its 5 dollars a gallon and 20 lashes with the gas hose…. There is however a free cup of Starbucks coffee with every fill-up to be drank with the unrelated female of your choice at any participating Saudi Starbucks…..

Netherlands : 6.48 a gallon but you get a free hash pipe and ten dollars off your next hooker.

France: 5.54 a gallon. It is10 dollars a gallon if you’re American just because they can….

Stockholm Sweden: 5.80 a gallon. 7.00 a gallon with a guided golf-cart tour of the city with Bill Murray.

Four Dollars a gallon suddenly is not looking quite so bad.

©2008 Brian Cuban