Price of gas
I don’t know about where you live but the price of gasoline in Taiwan has gotten out of hand!
I checked the price today - liters to gallons, then NT$ to US$ - and found that we are paying $3.75 per gallon of 92 octane gasoline. Compare that to the year I graduated high school . . . .
May 2, 1968 prices
Bread: $0.22/loaf
Milk: $1.21/gal
Eggs: $1.12/doz
Car: $2,450
Gas: $0.34/gal
House: $26,600
Stamp: $0.06/ea
Avg Income: $9,670/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 944
Stop the presses - right after I hit the publish button I found a price chart for what other countries are paying for their go juice. Check out this chart that is 3 years old (go to the chart for a list of 37 countries)
I’ll stop whining now.
Filed in General, Taiwan 2 Comments so far
Shannon on 02 May 2008 at 11:51 pm #
I will whine for you. Gas is killing me. I paid $3.41 yesterday in OKLAHOMA, one of the places where gas comes from. It was $45 to fill up my tank and I fill it up once a week. I am glad I don’t have a large SUV, but still gas has to go down!
Travis on 04 May 2008 at 10:01 pm #
That’s another thing I’m loving about living in the UK right now. I’m not having to pay for gas since I don’t have a car. Over the 6 months I’m here, I’ll save around $650…IF the prices stay where they are now.