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How much for gas? Worldwide, pain is felt at the pump

(UPDATED) COLOGNE, Germany: At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany airport, Bernd Mueller watches the digits quickly climb on the pump: 22 euros ($23), 23 euros, 24 euros. The numbers showing how much gasoline he's getting rise, too. But much more slowly. Painfully slowly.

'I'm getting rid of my car this October, November,' Mueller, 80, said.