Hah, I found an almost mindless way to compare US pump prices to Malaysian pump prices.
- Go to gasbuddy.com to get a US pump price. For example, on the 28th of September, 2008, the average price was 2.624/gallon. BTW, the price one month ago was 3.619/gallon.
- Go to google.com, and type “convert 2.624 dollars per gallon to ringgit per liter,” or whatever the US gallon price is. In this case, the price is equivalent to about RM2.48/liter. This should work for any currency and volume, ex 7,434 Rupiah/liter. Haven’t tried out kolah and ‘tin minyak tanah’ yet.
- Compare to the Malaysian gas price of RM2.30/liter.
I guess someone will create a Java / AJAX script to link all this up, and alow me to make it an applet on my page?
Posted by Wata 
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 