Political Memes

FWIW, I learned to drive when it was ~$0.95/gal, and lived in the UK ~'05, so I feel keenly that a fairer comparison might be each region's % of prol take-home avg that's leeched by fuel costs. Is there an acronym for that?

Let's say that these two nations' Unit Price and MPG/KPL avgs are:

• US: $4.32/g | 26 mpg
• UK: £1.59/L | 36 kpl

Also, the nat'l avgs of "median wage worker" incomes are:

• US: $50,153 (£37,276.47)
• UK: £32,236 ($43,369.83)

The fuel cost/yr as % of gross earnings, and minutes-of-work per fill unit would look like:

• US: 2.12% | 7.4 mins/g (1.95/L) up 28% since 2019
• UK: 1.01% | 4.5 mins/L (17.2/g) down 7% since 2019 (income rose 31%)

Now, for some of us, the slice off the year's top is image enough, but that "minutes of work per gallon/liter* punches low. 🤌🏼

If you find yourself with a surplus of joy and need it gone, run your own numbers for minutes per gallon/liter * (2*commute fuel usage) = minutes paid to earn the rest. 😅

According to the RAC it was earlier than 2010. But then I don't get a lifetime of medical debt if I get injured so at least at have that going for us. Currently.

Never really bothered to do the conversions but now I've just realised how cheap gasoline was in the US. The cheapest I remember seeing pump prices in the uk was in late 90s where it was £0.65/L, which would make it around £2.46/gallon and therefore $4.15/gallon given the apparent exchange rate at the time.

• Buy all your gas from Russia

• Get into a proxy war with Russia

• Blow up the pipeline they use to sell you their oil

• ???

• Reform UK wins the next election