Good points, thanks. Writing competently is something I do struggle with. “Worse” is a bad choice to describe drivers, as opposed to policies, which is what I am discussing.

You have to adjust for people being poorer than in the U.S. Using

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita

Saudi Arabia: (47 123 / 23 742) * 0.45 = 0.893157695

Kuwait: (47 123 / 38 293) * 0.85 = 1.04600188

UAE: 1.57 hits the average UAE citizen as hard as:
(47 123 / 36 973) * 1.57 = 2.00100371 (PPP)

Still less than the U.S. but not as extreme looking for Saudi Arabia
and for Kuwait, at roughly $1 (what we in the US paid only 12 years
ago in some parts of the country)

And UAE? Just about $2/gallon, what the US paid even more recently,
and not THAT much lower.

But the larger point is don’t call individual drivers “the worst”

Call policies bad, call middle east US-taxpayer funded dictatorships
in countries bad, call decisions bad, but don’t bash individual
citizens as a singular “whole”.

By the way if you do the conversion for other countries, like South
America, or Africa, they are much poorer than the above three countries so the conversion factors for them are much larger, they don’t make 24,000 to 38,000 per capita compared to the US $47,000 per capita, they make
much less