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He did mean developed country. The US pays about two-thirds what Australians do for petrol, who in turn pay about two-third what Europeans do for petrol.

The panic that the US gets itself into when discussing fuel prices is amusing to watch. Australia is a big country with spread out cities like the US (or even more than the US) and similar wage levels, yet we don't have problems with post-paying cash for our fuel. In six weeks of driving around the US west a couple of years ago, I never found a single place where I could post-pay with cash - they were all too afraid of drive-offs. Weird.

Also, you've mangled the statistics - for example, you've used Vietnam's price per litre against the US's price per gallon.



I never found a single place where I could post-pay with cash - they were all too afraid of drive-offs.

Many municipalities in the US have made post-pay illegal, so even if gas stations wanted to offer it they couldn't.


Excuse my ignorance, but what does "post-pay" mean?


Paying for the gasoline after you put it in the vehicle. At most gas stations in the US, if you want to pay with cash, you park your vehicle at a pump, go inside and prepay a certain amount, fill up your vehicle, and then go back inside to collect any money you didn't spend.


Thanks for the correction on Vietnam - I double checked and wasn't able to find another instance of mangling, but since you said "for example", I imagine there are others I missed.




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