What the article doesn't seem to mention is that we are actually paying a lot more for the actual gas bit. If you remove all the taxes, we are probably paying more than what most Europeans do. You'd think that gas would be subsidized a little bit for the world's largest consumer.

Btw, I'm not really sure where they're getting their stats for the middle east from. Last time I was there, gas was 70 halalah (SAR)/litre approx= 70 cents/gal