(IBTimes) - We always hear that the most expensive gasoline at
the pump is in the UK, it is not, according to stats from
commercial car insurer Staveley Head, Britain is quite low on the
Top 10 rundown of the countries with the highest average price
for a litre of unleaded gasoline.
The research also looked at average monthly petrol
expenditure, compared to average monthly disposable income to
calculate what percentage of earnings drivers in each country
spend on fuel.
#10 Belgium - 140p per litre: Belgium comes in at number ten
with an average price of 140p per litre of unleaded. Disposable
income levels in the country are £1,936 per month - 8.7% of which
is, on average, spent on petrol.
#9 Eritrea - 141p per litre: The small country of Eritrea in
the Horn of Africa is the only non-European state to enter the
top ten with an average price of 141p per litre of unleaded.
#9 Sweden - 141p per litre: Sweden comes in joint ninth with
the same average price per litre as Eritrea - 141p - as well as
the same average monthly spend of £170. However residents in the
Scandinavian country have an average disposable income around 12
times the size of those in Eritrea, making the percentage figure
just 7.7%.
#7 UK - 142p per litre: Britain emerges as the seventh most
expensive country for petrol with the average price for a litre
of unleaded sat at 142p per litre. But this will rise again come
August, when a 3p per litre hike in fuel duty (confirmed in last
month's Budget) is pushed through.
#6 Denmark - 143p per litre: Average prices in Denmark are
pegged just above UK costs at 143p per litre of unleaded. However
the Dane's average monthly disposable income is higher than the
average Brit at £2,124, bringing the population's percentage
petrol spend down to 8.1%.
#5 Greece - 145p per litre: Greece's economy has had a rough
time of it lately, and the petrol sector is no exception. An
average litre of unleaded will set you back 145p. Disposable
income in the country is also one of the lowest across the top
ten chart, at £680. So with average petrol expenditure at £175,
Greeks on average spend a 25% of their income on fuel.
#4 Italy - 146p per litre: Italy comes in at four on the list.
It will cost you 146.5p on average for a litre of unleaded. The
percentage spend on petrol in the country is also relatively high
at just over 15%.
#3 Netherlands - 148p per litre: Another Northern European
country creeps onto the list. The Netherlands is at number three
with an average per litre price for unleaded of 148p. However the
Dutch have a fairly high level of disposable income, at £1,784 -
so with an average monthly petrol spend of £179, the percentage
figure works out at just over 10%.
#2 Turkey - 162p per litre: Petrol prices take a sharp upwards
turn when we reach Turkey. Average per litre prices for unleaded
are a huge 162p - a full 20p per litre higher than British costs,
on average. But Turkey actually has the second lowest level of
disposable income of the ten countries, at an average of £572. So
with an average monthly petrol spend of £196, the percentage
figure works out a huge 34%.
#1 Norway - 164p per litre: At the top of the charts: Norway.
Prices for unleaded in the Scandinavian nation are set at a huge
164p per litre on average. That's 80 times higher than the
average petrol prices found in the cheapest country for fuel
globally, Venezuela.
But this should be put in context. Norway also has, by some
stretch, the highest level of disposable income at a £2,681. That
puts average percentage spending on fuel at just over 7%.
High levels of taxation keep fuel expensive in Norway. On the
other side, fuel costs are kept low in Venezuela by the left-wing
government, at an estimated cost to the economy of £13 billion
more than double the education and health budgets.
Paul A. Ebeling, Jnr.
Paul A. Ebeling, Jnr. writes and publishes The Red
Roadmaster's Technical Report on the US Major Market Indices, a
weekly, highly-regarded financial market letter, read by opinion
makers, business leaders and organizations around the world.
Paul A. Ebeling, Jnr has studied the global financial and
stock markets since 1984, following a successful business career
that included investment banking, and market and business
analysis. He is a specialist in equities/commodities, and an
accomplished chart reader who advises technicians with regard to
Major Indices Resistance/Support Levels.
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