U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Vehicle Technologies Program

Fact #27: April 21, 1997
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Prices for Selected Countries: 1996

Graph showing gasoline and diesel fuel prices for selected countries

Note: All prices include taxes. Prices are from the first quarter of 1996, except for prices for Lithuania and Saudi Arabia — those prices were from 1995.

Supporting Information

  Premium
Gasoline		 Diesel
Fuel
Canada $1.80 $1.43
United States $1.28 $1.15
France $4.41 $3.10
Italy $4.24 $3.40
United Kingdom $3.47 $3.26
Germany $4.32 $3.02
Lithuania $0.71 $0.52
Saudi Arabia $0.60 $0.37
Australia $2.07 $1.95
Japan $3.77 $2.51

Source: Energy Information Agency, International Energy Annual 1995, DOE/EIA-0219(95), December 1996, pp. 102-3.

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