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Show UNITED STATES HAS CHEAPEST GASOLINE While no exact comparison can be made, domestic gasoline prices are both relatively and actually much lower than prevail generally gen-erally in other parts of the world, it is shown by a department of commerce tabulation of retail gasoline and kerosene prices in vari- ous countries throughout the world on or about April 1, 1926. Factors Fac-tors making for inequalities in prices include distance from sources of supply, quantity consumed, transportation costs, import duties, excise taxes, distribution and marketing costs, quality of gasoline sold, and many others. Foreign prices a gallon range from 1 5 cents in Bucharest, Roumania, to 98 cents in British South Africa. Average of tank wagon prices in 30 representative American cities on April 10 was 1 7 cents a gallon, with taxes in various states ranging from one to five cents; and service station prices two to four cents a gallon above the tank wagon price, plus taxes, where levied. |