Boohooo
Gas is about 1 EURO/Litre over here (that's about 1.24$/0.26gal coming down to about 4.7$/gal)
So consider yourselves lucky.
(You know I'm just joking, as I sure hate it myself when people tell me to stop whining because others got it even worse, what matters is the deterioration)
What strikes me the most over here is our low inflation rate. Inflation allegedly was about 20% (cumulative) since 1990 but gas prices have doubled (even back then it was more than 2$/gal over here), and prices for groceries, power, ... have gone up more than 50%. They keep explaining the low inflation rate with falling prices for cellphones, computers,... but - come on - who cares about the price for a new PentiumIV when he (like me) is earning 400$/month. I LOVE computers, but they don't make up my main spendings which are groceries and power.
Guess what, we've been cheated!