When I get a chance I'll do the analysis again without taxes incorperated into the prices. As it looks to me, the US pays more per gallon of gasoline than all the countries I listed above, except for the netherlands. We aren't catching up to the rest of the world, because we aren't taxing gasoline 200%. Our taxes haven't changed and neither have yours.
Now that I think about it again. The correct way to look at it would be to look at the non-tax price of gasoline, since if the taxes remain constant they shouldn't be incorperated into the percentage increase in the cost. I have a feeling if I look at the numbers again, less the taxes, they might be closer together.
My original point still stands though, supply and demand is not what is driving Crude oil prices. If it was, you would be saying the demand for crude oil has more than doubled in 2 years.
