WTF is up with gas prices?, How much are you paying? Options

[chosen1]

In Chicago, gas just spiked 20 cents. The cheapest I've seen is $2.45 for reg, $2.55 for super (which is what I put in my car) and $2.65 for premium. And usually, I drive 15 minutes to Indiana and pay 20 cents less, but now it's only 3 cents cheaper. It's not even worth burning the gas to drive there anymore. On top of that, I drive a truck for a living and the price of diesel is $2.65 which makes it almost impossible to make any money so all the employees at my company are going on strike on Monday so that we can get paid more for delivering loads. This is crazy!!! It's only the beginning of spring and prices are getting higher. What's going to happen by mid-summer? I heard in Cali they are already paying close to $3.50.

[darksecret]

I know that the minimum wage here is $5.15 per hour where in Australia it's over $7 per hour. Gas prices in America are around $2.30 per gallon where in Australia I think it's around $1.10 per litre. If you do the math that would mean that 1 US gallon is equal to 3.78 litres. That means that Australians pay around $4.15 AUD per gallon or $3.19 US per gallon. Take the minimum wage of say $7.25 AUD and that is around $5.60 US. So yes Australia pays more for petrol than we do but they make a little more also. I haven't researched the UK but the economy is similar to Australia. For those of you that don't believe my research I have an Australian standing here next to me that said that sounds about right. She did say that in the Adelaide area it's about $1.20 AUD per litre.