Price of a tank of gas as a % of monthly salary

[packman]

[MineralMan]

1. What an interesting map!

[jimfields33]

2. Venezuelan population is so lucky.

Ours is too big regardless of percentage. The working people have to pay the price mostly.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. It's just gas...high or low has little to do with living lucky.

[doc03]

8. I wonder if people in Brazil can cross the border and buy gas in Venezuela nt

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. The green countries are such gas whiners, one in particular. Corporate Media made it that way.

[Tumbulu]

5. I wonder what salary the are using

As if you are in the workforce here in the US, the range of salaries is rather profound.

[Metaphorical]

6. Gas prices adjusted for inflation are remarkably stable

Something to consider. I remember paying about $3.50 a gallon in 2000 for gas. Adjusting for inflation, that same gallon of gas would now cost about $5.77. (Based upon https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/). Gas prices, when adjusted for inflation, have actually been getting cheaper, or put another way, less of people's budgets are going to paying for a tank of gas (the same gallon of gas, assuming a current price of about $4.15, would have been a bargain at about $2.55 a gallon twenty years ago).

I am driving less because of Covid, and because the car I have today is more energy efficient. For about 10% of the population, the cost of gasoline is simply not applicable, because they are driving EVs. The ones who are paying more (outside of truckers, different dynamic) are largely the same MAGATs that have the Humvees and supersized pickup trucks that are such a big part of the problem in the first place. Sure, buddy you have the freedom of buying the biggest gas hawg you can, but when gas goes up, oh, too bad, so sad.

[Sympthsical]

9. Gas prices were not $3.50 in 2000

It was about $1.50 average for the year.

I would've noticed $3.50/gal as a whippersnapper zooming around back then.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&f=m

With inflation, that comes out to about $2.47 today.

I just filled up at Costco for $5.37, so that was fun.

[heckles65]

11. Where do you live??

In Vermont it was $2.30-2.40 that year. I don't remember prices at $1.50 even during the 2008-2009 recession.

[Sympthsical]

14. 2000 was 22 years ago

I had a memory of it being something like $1.59, so I googled to check.

Multiple sources confirm around $1.50 on average that year.

[Croney]

7. If you have to fill up once a week, multiply accordingly.

I'm not complaining. We are fortunate.

Pakistan is 25.80%? They obviously can't fill up many times a month.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. This Map Lacks Context

Those really high numbers are in countries with very low incomes, but also far fewer personal vehicles.
There are 9 cars & personal trucks for every 11 people in the US.
In Pakistan, there about 6 people for every car.
In China, there is under 1 car for every 2 people. And, their percentage is not outrageous.
So, when a number is high it's a combination of income, gas prices, and the % of people who actually have a car.
It seems logical to proffer that those with cars in those countries make well above typical incomes. So, in Pakistan, that number might be far lower as dirt poor people with tiny incomes have no car. They spend zero % of income.
Not convinced we can conclude much from this map.

[Initech]

10. The difference is countries like France get stuff in return for high gas prices.

Us? We get oil company profits and speculation trading.

[dugog55]

13. Gas has been $5 a gallon (metric) in Europe since the 70's.

But, they have an excellent mass transit system and they use much smaller, fuel efficient cars. Also, they walk or bike as many place as they can. Sure, the big cities can be a traffic nightmare at times, but here in the states, any town with more than 10,000 people has traffic issues at certain times of the day.