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World's cheapest gas: Top 10 countries

While Americans and Europeans bemoan the cost of gasoline at the pumps, people in some other parts of the world enjoy filling up their tanks cheaply thanks to subsidies provided by wealthy, oil-rich governments. But fuel subsidies tend to benefit the rich (who own motor vehicles) more than the poor. The IMF estimated that 65 percent of the fuel subsidies in Africa benefit the richest 40 percent of households (2010). Only 8 percent of the $410 billion in government fuel subsidies worldwide went to the poorest 20 percent of the population (International Energy Agency - estimates, 2010).
The British insurance firm Staveley Head has released the latest list of the world’s gas pump prices. Here are the 10 cheapest countries on Earth to fill a gas tank.

- Michail Vafeiadis, Contributor, Girish Gupta, Contributor, Leigh Montgomery, Staff

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A $5 per gallon price is posted at a gas station in Belmont, Calif., in March, 2011. (Paul Sakuma/AP)



1. Venezuela- $0.18 per gallon ($0.05 per liter)

With elections looming in October 2012, President Hugo Chávez knows that raising gasoline and diesel prices would be a risky move politically. His presidency is already threatened by his deteriorating health, providing a unique opportunity for the opposition’s candidate, the telegenic Henrique Capriles Radonski, to replace the ailing leader. The last time the government attempted to raise gasoline prices in 1989,l riots ensued, and hundreds of people died. Venezuelans are likely to continue paying less for fuel than bottled water for years to come.

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[floadaVonfoli]

+1 point for forcing users to click through 10 times to view the article thereby driving up ad revenue by roughly 10X (assuming readers stick through all the captain obvious once the initial shock of such low gas prices wears off the previously unaware readers)

-1 point for making a top ten countdown list and putting the lowest price at number 10, really dumb move dumb guy.

Net score: 0

[ArraryTauTDew]

Money is not uniform ... different places, different prices.

At one time I could get a bagel and cream cheese at a Hardys in the quad cities for $.59. At Galesburg the price was $1.09. At Peoria the price was $1.59. All in the space of a 2 1/2 hour drive.

At Peoria a skilled tradesman could earn $100,000 easily. Merchants knew there was money in the local economy. They do sensitivity studies all the time.