Sweden

Price per gallon of premium gasoline: $8.14
Price change since last quarter: -9.3%
Most-expensive-gas rank: #8
Pain-at-the-pump rank: #48
<p>Sweden paid about $2.71 billion to subsidize oil in 2010. Amid declines in daily wages, the amount of time Swedes had to work in order to afford a gallon of gas climbed by 4.3 percent in the last quarter.</p><p>The average daily income in Sweden is $158. The share of a day's wages needed to buy a gallon of gas is 5.1 percent.</p><p>Read more energy & sustainability news.</p>