Correct. The average Egyptian makes about $1600 per year, or about $5-6 per day, if you assume about 280 working days.

Gas is priced, taxed, and marketed different everywhere. Fortunately, or unfortunately, our society in the US has much higher salary rates, and therefore higher costs of goods. If we only made $1600 per year, THEN we could complain about it.

The higher gas prices were probably inevitable. In some ways they are better higher, because they force, and make possible, conservation and the use of alternative sources of energy.