[OC] Inspite of possessing much decreased wages, Mexicans have been spending much more than People in america to fill up their tanks for decades, until finally now.
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[OC] Despite owning significantly decreased wages, Mexicans have been paying additional than Us citizens to fill up their tanks for years, right until now.
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**Sources:** CRE Mexico ([xlsx](http://transparenciacre.westcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/PNT/73/III/E/PL/Precios_promedio_diarios_y_mensuales_en_estaciones_de_servicio.xlsx) file), [EIA](https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/).
**Tools:** Sheets, Rawgraphs, Affinity Designer
For price/L its really cheap. Since 2 years we pay more than 1,40€/L in germany. Today’s Price 2,02€/L.
I know, this statistics show how’s the price gap between usa to mexico, but i felt like tell you that.
Taking purchasing power into account, mexican gas is about what, six times more expensive than the states.
1.7cad/l where I live.
Americans need to stfu about gas prices.
They should easily be able to afford it anyway with the amount they save on taxes and not having to pay for universal health care.
Crying in CAD gas prices of $1.90/Litre
Americans just need to learn to save more and eat less avocado toast
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*laughs in mexican*
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Im not even mexican, but i know how to laugh in Mexican
I thought whataboutism wasn’t a valid argument?
Welcome to the jungle, down here we’re used to high prices and low incomes. Gringos llorones.
I live in a country where 1,7€/litre and the wage is close to 646€/month. I love to see how the Americans crying if they earn a waaaaay more and the gas prices are cheaper lol
Should learn what developed and developing countries have been doing to reduce their reliance on gas.
Public transportations.
Of course they pay more. Mexico is a poor country with a corrupt government, rating a [33/100](https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/mexico) on Trasparency.org’s corruption perceptions index. That means their government steals/wastes/misuses more of the funds drawn from taxes, and fuel taxes are very inexpensive to levy, and virtually impossible to avoid.
I had a male gasoline and a female gasoline and they mated and made a litter of gasoline for free
We pay more than double. You call this high i call it a steal.
I’d imagine it’s because the US government pays all the subsidies to oil companies to keep prices low
Is a litter an actual unit of gasoline or is that supposed to say liter?
People complain about 1$/l ? In europe its double that..
Americans don’t know how good they have it. Look at the purchasing power of the average latin American, and consider that they usually also need to pay huge import duties and tariffs on most manufactured products… An iphone in the US costs $1000, the same phone in Colombia at least 50% more. I’ve heard the import duties in Brazil are insane.
Just wait until you find out the price in Scandinavia
It’s because state-controlled Pemex (90%+ of Mexican oil production) is a horribly run enterprise and Mexico has been trying to cut off foreign investment in favor of internal oil and gas development. Unfortunately they never tackled the corruption within Pemex first.
Every project they touch turns into cost overruns and missed deadlines.
Mexico’s government is a intermittent quasi narco-state. Why would this data encourage anyone? Misery loves company?
That’s so cute from a German perspective 🤣🤣🤣
Ofc it’s has been cheap in the US. Thats how subsidies work.
A lot of cities in Mexico are more compact and walkable. For example, Mexico City has an extensive subway system, and even then a lot of places are walkeable, unlike in many US cities with suburban sprawl. Not saying that it is relatively cheaper in Mexico, but one can get around easily without a car, and even with a car, driving distances aren’t too far in general
making the comparison in dollars is rather useless, the correct way to approach this issue is comparing gas price vs the median wage in each country
Fellow Americans, I have done the Google on our behalf:
1 gallon = ~3.8 liters
$.60/liter = $2.27/gallon
$1.10/liter = $4.16/gallon
In Spain it’s about 2 USD the liter
I’m so confused by the point of this data and the comments. Is America just supposed to accept their inflation and falling economy because the rest of the world is already like this? Who would want that for themselves or their country?
For everyone pointing out the prices of gas in their countries, minimum wage in Mexico is at 8.7$ USD (7.99€) per day. Around 160€ monthly after taxes. But in average, people make 450€ after taxes so please take Mexican wages into consideration when making comparisons. Costs of living are obviously variable between countries but salaries in Mexico are a joke.
lmao Americans complaining about 1.10 per litre, meanwhile Europe paying double that
American here, how many BigMacs in a litre? Is that like 1/100th of a giraffe? That’s metric right?
And now we need to feel sorry? The normal gas prices in Europe before the pandemic were higher then your highest price right now.. Now we pay like $2.20 a liter
Weird I remember gas being super cheap in Mexico. But then again I was comparing it to Canadian prices
Gas is $8CDN a gallon in British Columbia ($6.37US a gallon)
Find a chart with British Columbia Canada as the comparison. I’m curious.
UK fuel prices are 9.50-10 USD/gallon atm fml 🙁
Isn’t this true for remaining 90% of world that does NOT sit on oil deposits?
Or Canadians, which is funny, considering 61% of ‘American’ oil comes from Canada.