Just take the train
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Seeing the reactions here saying $6/gallon is expensive… here in the Netherlands we’re up to $9.92 per gallon (if my math maths right) 🥲. Happy to drive electric myself but my wife is not amused ‘cause she has a petrol car still.
Yeah Americans don't realize how relatively cheap gas is here. There seems to be an entitled attitude that they deserve to drive the biggest obnoxious vehicle they can get.
We're fully EV and the price of gas is no longer relevant to our daily lives. On the other hand, data centers keep driving up the price of electricity, but that can only change like twice a year and hasn't been as bad as this gas spike.
It will be relevant to your lives when it increases the price of food and everything else. The transportation industry doesn't have EVs, and they won't absorb the costs. I'm sure you know this, but you're not as insulated from this as you make it out to be.
And we can all turn to the nearest American when looking who to blame. They voted for this and actively support this.
most Americans did not, in fact, vote for this. most Americans do not, in fact, actively support this.
33% directly voted for him, and another 33% didn't vote at all. That's 66% of the country that either directly supports this, or doesn't think it's an issue at all. Only 33% of Americans are not okay with Trump (in varying degrees).
Yall just wait. I’ve lived through over $4 gas prices before. They ain’t done
$4??
$4 / gallon was our normal low price in California.
We're over $6 a gallon right now!
In the UK, it is normally $7 per US gallon. More than 50% of that is tax. The
Sniper offed you mid-sentence?
I don’t know what I was going to say there.
They survived!
In the UK, you have trains, trams, trolleys, and coaches...
American gallon or British gallon?
We pay per litre where I live. We, civilised people.
I did say US gallon. We also pay per litre.
Whats that crazy place in Menlo Park at now?
Menlo Park? Current gas prices ranging from $6 to $7.30/gallon
There was a gas station, I believe near downtown Menlo Park, that always had absurdly high gas prices. Used to see it posted all the time in r/bayarea, but I don't go to that site anymore.
It's probably the one currently at $7.30/gallon. And in that area there are probably plenty of people who earn so much that they don't even pay attention to prices.
It's like some people weren't alive in 2008...
laughs in bicycle
Electric or acoustic?
It is powered purely by rage and cake.
I bet you have a nice cake and big thighs to beat.
I'm so grateful my hybrid from over a decade ago still gets 45mpg. People thought me crazy to drop roughly $5k more on a car but who's laughing now?
Although, there were so few options back then and I really wanted an EV, even before we had places to charge it. If I just had a little more money I'd probably have had to get a Tesla. No way past me would have guessed the current state of things regarding that... I knew gas was gonna be a liability, but not that Elon was a lunatic, or even who he was. This was pre-Trump, even!
Saw $3.87 for regular today
$6.99 for diesel at Shell. I’ll laugh so much if it goes over $10.
All hail the FO phase
We're up like 20something yen/litre compared to February 1st (costco 132 -> 153 and it's 10-20 yen cheaper than local stations).
If local stations are 165/litre and 3.785412 l = 1 US gallon ~> 625 yen/ US gallon ~> $3.92 USD / USGal in my area of northern Japan using whatever my browser thinks is today's exchange rate (0.0063 yen per dollar). I suspect Tokyo is and the big cities are more expensive, though not by a ton.
It cost me damn near thirty bucks to fill up from 1/4 tank.
I drive a subcompact.
Normal EU pricing. Hopefully this shortage will cause people to seek alternative modes of transport.
I have been waiting for this moment...
...my whole life!
Goodbye, fossil industry.
Unless u are in the US where it is still dirt cheap lol. Even now they are paying less then Europeans did before the war.
America is the world's largest producer of oil. It should be cheap.
It's probably the biggest contribution against climate change from Trump. Just not what he wanted...
I shed a tear for those poor drivers every time I pass by a gas station on my bicycle. It's not like a lot of them have alternatives but refuse to do anything but pay more for a liquid that people are killed for. Countries are politically pressured, invaded or bombed. It encourages dictatorship, abuse and torture. It's slowly choking us and making the environment unlivable. And it has to be cheap or we shall invade, bomb, and kill more people so it stays cheap. More death and destruction, no alternatives. We need cheap gas!
How did you know?
Jokes on you, my full tank is $50. Australian dollars. I have a small car to compensate.
Ya well I have a truck to compensate for my medium sized wang
$5.83 a gallon in Vancouver Canada. Actually pretty fucking funny that it's cheaper than alot of places in the US now.
prices went up 24% on gasoline compared to normal. How bad is it for y'all?
Boomer humor
I paid 4.99 yesterday, that price is going to have to rise dramatically before I get concerned.
You're not the target audience so shut the fuck up for this post
Next time I’ll lobotomize myself and come here clutching my pearls so I can be just like you
I eat your Paisley am already lobotomized and can't clutch my pearls as the lobotomy removed my ability to use my hands and am now two broken hands.