Actually, damn. Right here it's $1.12 per liter. Will wonders never cease? Funny thing is I can walk to an oil well, and I ride my bike past a refinery multiple times per week.
On the positive side, due to high fuel prices, public transport is a really viable option. It's about the same price per kilometer, but not having to pay off a vehicle and pay insurance makes it an economically more viable option. And money from the fuel tax can be poured into public transportation, which drives more people into trains and buses.
Public transport is actually stupid cheap in most of the US, too... it's just slllllllllowwwwwwwwww. I used to take the bus to college. If the price of the bus pass wasn't rolled into my tuition, it would have been three bucks a day for sixteen miles. On that route, it took about as long as driving and had the distinct advantage of dropping me off in campus, as opposed to the $8/day parking a quarter mile away. Same bus route went to a club I mixed at, too. Even followed the same route. Difference being the bus got there in an hour and a half. I could drive it in 20 minutes. Things get really stupid in LA - if you're on one of the subway lines you're golden. I could make it the six miles from North Hollywood to Hollywood and Vine faster than I could in a goddamn helicopter for $1.75. And while I could make it from the Long Beach Airport to NoHo for $4... it'd take three and a half hours.