I've been hearing a lot in the American news lately about the surge in gas prices. The prices have gone up in Germany, too:
Before you think that is cheap, those prices are per liter, not per gallon. What this means in "American" is this:
One liter is close to a quart, and there are four quarts in a gallon: 1.69 x 4 = 6.76 Euros a gallon
= 8.84 dollars a gallon...and that's the cheap gas.
It was the same in Turkey:
There, your regular gas is 3.85 Turkish Lira a liter, which is about $2.15, times that by 4, and a gallon of gas is about $8.60. I know it's different in the U.S., because in most places you really need a car to get around, but it makes $4 a gallon seem not nearly as bad.
