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Luckily work paid for this tank full... (lemmy.wtf)
submitted 2 days ago by rosco385@lemmy.wtf to c/australia@aussie.zone
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The first servo I stopped at had run out of diesel. A tank normally costs me $100 less.

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

It’s just under 40km, each way. 3/4 of the time (and like >90% of the distance) is on the Monash Freeway.

Our biggest problem here is that we spent over a century building our cities ‘out’ rather than up - though given we have about as much landmass as all of continental Europe, it probably made sense at the time.

Now we are paying for our hubris through massively prolonged commutes to work and elsewhere.