Governments’ Power to Alter the Free Market

A simple look at gasoline prices per gallon around the world from Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine dramatically shows just how much havoc governments can cause when they interfere with the free market economy and how much tax policies, subsidies and additive and refining requirements can effect the prices citizens pay for fuel.

Turkey $11.18
Norway $10.16
Brazil $ 6.38
Uganda $ 6.19
US $ 3.96
Russia $ 3.90
China $ 3.40
Greenland $ 3.00
Angola $ 2.02
Iraq $ 1.44
Iran $ .41
Venezuela $ .12