By Steve Parker

Read it and weep. This was the scene at a Shell station on May 22, 2008, in Palm Desert, California. Diesel fuel at $5.19, 98 cents more than they are charging for the highest-octane gasoline they offer.

Any American who has ever visited Europe or Asia, especially Japan and Korea, are shocked at the price of  gasoline and diesel. In many European countries, it's over $8 a gallon. Japanese are paying somewhere north of $5.50 per gallon.

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