{"id":891978,"date":"2026-03-26T01:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/?p=891978"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:05:12","slug":"petrol-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/blogs\/mannerisms\/markets\/petrol-prices-2026-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row margin-bottom-15\">\n<div class=\"width70 padding-right-15\">\n<div id=\"infographicDescriptionLong\" class=\"article__contentText responsiveText responsiveText--underlinedLinks\">\n<p>At $4.29 per gallon on average, Americans are still paying less for petrol than many people.<\/p><div class=\"elect-content\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-101355487\"><div id=\"x02\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() <= 768) { googletag.display('x02'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Australians and Canadians, <a rel=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalpetrolprices.com\/gasoline_prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to website Global Petrol Prices, <\/a>\u00a0are paying between $5.47 and $5.91 for a gallon.<\/p><div class=\"elect-test\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-1562946704\"><div id=\"DFP-EW-InRead1\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() > 768) { googletag.display('DFP-EW-InRead1'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<BR>\r\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/12653\/gasoline-and-diesel-market-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Europe has some of the highest gasoline prices <\/a>in the world. Most of Western Europe was paying upwards of $7.00 for a gallon of \u00a0petrol as of March 23, with some of the highest prices being charged in Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands.<\/p><div class=\"elect-post-content-2\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"elect-1197876449\"><div id=\"DFP-EW-InRead1-Mobile\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if ($(window).width() <= 768) { googletag.display('DFP-EW-InRead1-Mobile'); } <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Germany was the most expensive major European economy in terms of gas prices most recently, as a gallon was going for $9.07.<\/p>\n<p>Norway is an outlier among oil producing countries as it taxes gasoline at a premium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-891979\" src=\"https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735-70x70.webp 70w, https:\/\/static.electronicsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25171249\/IMG_1735.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other oil producers have gone the opposite route, offering petrol to its citizens for less than the price of bottled water.<\/p>\n<p>The most drastic examples for this are Venezuela, Libya and Iran itself, where petrol only costs a couple of cents per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive gallon of petrol included in the ranking, however, was being sold in Hong Kong at $15.37, which would typically cause filling up even a small car to break the $100 barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Asia was the priciest part of the world for gas petrol after Europe, with prices high in China, South Korea, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand \u2013 all of which are major oil consumers, but not producers.<\/p>\n<p>Deep pockets are also needed in a few countries where weak government or trade structures have led to a hike in prices, like in the Central African Republic, Zimbabwe and Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>World regions with cheap gas prices included North Africa and the Middle East as well as in Central Asia and Russia. In Algeria, for example, gas costs only around $1.34 per gallon, while in Russia, the price was approximately $3.16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At $4.29 per gallon on average, Americans are still paying less for petrol than many people. 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