A student needed to know current gasoline prices in various countries and articles about reasons for increases in gas prices. The latter was simple to find. To my surprise, the former wasn't easy to find at all. Euromonitor wasn't helpful. Nationmaster at http://www.nationmaster.com, a central data source for international data has a table of current gasoline prices, but not in currency (the table uses an index from the German Agency for Technical Cooperation). Using the Statistical Abstract of the U.S., I found the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Their web site has a lot of data, but not international gasoline prices. Using the database, SourceOECD Statistics, I found a publication called "Energy Prices and Taxes - Energy End-Use Prices." The abstract reads: "This table contains end-use prices and taxes for the OECD countries and selected non-OECD countries for industry, households and electricity generation in US dollars/unit, US dollars/toe and US dollars/unit using PPPs." Gas prices are included.
This is a serial publication, only available by subscription. Since we don't subscribe to it, I searched the NYPL catalog and found it to be available online at SIBL http://catnyp.nypl.org/record=b8857774/ The student headed over there to use it...I needed a nap!
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The Energy Information Administration is some branch of the govt that acts a clearinghouse for energy data. They have a ton of info there (navigating it can be an adventure to say the least):
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
Here's a page that deals specifically with intl petroleum prices:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/oilprice.html
There are a few different tables that show prices for motor fuel. There's one that shows the weekly price per gallon in US dollars for a handful of European countries:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html
There's also that German Report (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) on the page that has annual data for over 170 countries. I'm not sure if it's the exact same report that you looked at - this one provides prices for gasoline and diesel in US cents per liter. The EIA provides a conversion factor - (Note: To convert prices in U.S. cents per liter to U.S. dollars per gallon multiply by 0.03785412). It also has some nifty maps and charts:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/en-international-fuelprices-part2-2007.pdf
- Frank
For some reason most of the Energy Admin Links links that I previously posted are broken - but they are the right links. If you copy the url and paste it into the browser they do work.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/oilprice.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/en-international-fuelprices-part2-2007.pdf
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