As oil wealth dwindles, Saudi Arabia faces change | GulfNews.com:
"At a petrol station in Saudi Arabia’s second largest city of Jeddah, drivers are fuelling up their cars at just 45 cents a gallon — four times less than the price of water.
To make that possible, the kingdom spends up to $10.7 billion per year on gasoline subsidies. It also offers a range of perks and welfare support to its citizens such as free health care and education, including thousands of scholarships to expensive Western universities.
Such largesse, however, is likely to be rolled back as the world’s largest oil exporter looks to curb spending for the first time in years due to a plunge in the price of crude, which accounts for 90 per cent of government revenue."
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