Iran's Gas Prices

We were discussing gas prices at work yesterday and the fact that Iranians are paying only 34 cents per gallon of gas came up. This seems like a gross injustice to Americans until I read an article online today that describes why the Iranians pay so little. Part of what it said was "Iran offers the highest subsidies for gasoline in the region, buying foreign gasoline for slightly more than $2 a gallon, according to official figures, and offering it for 34 cents a gallon." So we too could have really cheap gas, if we allowed our government to tax us more and then pay even higher subsidies to the gas companies.