This chart from this week's Economist deserves circulation.

You may call it gasoline or benzine instead of petrol, but the chart below shows just how much variety there is when it comes to auto fuel taxes within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD, known to some as the "rich country club," is mostly comprised of North American and European developed economies, but Japan, Australia, and Turkey all help give a global picture of how much motorists give to the government every time they fill up.

Increases in Turkey and Hungary are particularly noteworthy, as is the minuscule bar chart of the gas tax rate in the U.S.—the world's most voracious energy consumer.

-Sam Hopkins

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