Africa Faces Another Rising Expense: Fuel

In the United States, where the median household income is about $48,000, $4-a-gallon gas is painful.

In Nigeria, most of whose 140 million citizens live on less than $2 a day despite their country’s status as the world’s eighth largest oil exporter, $5.50-a-gallon diesel is excruciating.

If your entire home ran off a diesel generator, how much energy would you use?