I can hear it in his voice
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I actually saw $6.08 at my neighborhood gas station a few days ago. Been driving a Leaf since 2013 tho.
Been driving a Leaf since 2013 tho.
Flipped over to a Volt in 2019 and I've never been happier
A friend of mine loves his Volt. My wife and I just bought a 2023 Kia Niro. Feels a lot like a Leaf but with vastly longer range.
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$5 per US gallon would be 98p (GBP) per litre. I don't think fuel has been that cheap here in the last 10 years.
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.
I think I ended up on the same chart - link for future people: https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
I am one of the future people and appreciate the kink
Not that kind of pump.
I ran a pump and dump scheme with your mother last night, Trebek.
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.
In the late 90s (or maybe 2000) in the US Midwest, I remember paying $0.79 a gallon, or $0.21/L. With the exchange rate then, it works out to £0.13/L. So yeah, it was cheap. I filled my 15 gallon tank for the cost of 2 hours at my just above minimum wage job.
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Sleepy Joe Biden did this!!!!
Even though he isn’t the president!!!
He still did it because he is wearing a skin suit of Trump!!!!
Wake up Sheeple!!!!
Kamala Harris did pledge to start a war with Iran to defend Israel or prevent them from gaining nuclear weapons, and also called trump a pussy for not bombing Iran enough. So we were getting this one no matter what.
i mean, he did have access to the files, and he could have used it to have mango mussolini arrested but instead he handed the keys to the country and the nuclear codes to a man he himself called a fascist. so yes, Joe is indeed responsible for the situation the world is in. just because all republicans support pedophilia doesn't mean Dems don't help them.
Fuck Trump but Biden insisted on handing the US to fascists on a silver platter so I kind of hate him more even though he is less evil, at the very least I hope he knows deep down as he goes into the end of his life that he threw the futures of younger americans away with his grovelling, useless corporate centrism that could not see past the status quo. I hope that makes his last moments feel panicked and lonely.
Oh yeah and Biden is a Zionist, for which he can burn in hell for enabling the Palestinian Genocide.
REGULAR - 5^29^
PREMIUM - 5^73^
EPSTEIN - 6^08^
Damn. They got them prices represented with exponents now. Those must be the Europe prices. /s
Me paying 9.15 USD per gallon, just because I live in Europe
I would be paying by the Liter in Europe and get the discount
9.15 USD per Liter seems unreasonable. That is roughly 461 cups per camel.
Source:
- 1 US Cup is 0.236588L
- 1 Camel costs roughly 1kUSD (the cheap work camels)
Diesel here is 2€40 a litre.
Cheers!
Edit: France
How many football fields is that?
How many gallons is a euro, in Fahrenheit?
The proper unit is Eagle talons per rifle caliber
Is this the tsi awd talon or are we going cheap?
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So roughly 9.10€ per gallon. ~$10.60
y'all are paying more than Canadians. last night it was $1.55/L
damn you're winning hard
also, fuel in Canada should still be more expensive.
£1.92 a litre for diesel at my local petrol station the last time I went.
A quick currency check says that's 3.54 Canadian dollars.
All because an orange child rapist is trying to distract everyone from all those decades of raping little girls.
I paid $5.77 in West Virginia yesterday
With current exchange rates, that's 1.09 € per litre. In Germany we pay 1.90 € per litre ( for the cheap stuff). So in Germany it is ~9.60$ per gallon.
I'm not being shitty, but a real question. Do you have your own oil wells? We not only have our own oil, but we frack the shit out of our earth.
Germany doesn't have its own oil wells, that's one of the reasons it invaded the USSR in WW2: to get to the oil wells in Chechnya.
But the real reason is economic redistribution. Germany has a 19% value added tax and a €0.65/L excise tax, without which that €1.90/L gasoline comes out to €1.05 per litre - cheaper than in West Virginia.
All those taxes are invested by the government into other stuff, much of which makes life cheaper for Germans. People don't pay out their asses for the German healthcare system because they already paid when buying gasoline. And the same goes for public transit and urban infrastructure and everything else.
Some states have those taxes too. Not every state is evil about healthcare, but most are.
Doesn’t matter if you supply your own oil, it’s traded on world markets that determines the price.
I don't know about where you're sourcing your info, and I don't know enough about it to check this source, lol.
Regardless, they seem confident?:
By contrast, the United States is supposedly relatively well-off since we are largely self-sufficient and in fact a net exporter of natural gas.
While the point about the US having large oil and gas production is important, it distorts the impact in important ways. The simplest way to think about the surge in oil and natural gas prices is as a big tax on consumers of these products.
When people pay $3.50 at the pumps, instead of the $2.80 we paid a month ago, this would be the same thing to consumers as if the government imposed a 70 cent a gallon gas tax. There would be a similar story with higher prices for home heating oil or natural gas. From the standpoint of consumers, the price increases are the same as if they just got hit with a big tax increase.
The difference is that instead of the money going to the government, as it would with a tax, it’s going to the oil and gas industry, Donald Trump’s campaign contributors. In principle, for a country like the United States, which is largely self-sufficient in oil and gas, if we could just rebate the money people paid in higher prices back to consumers, all would be fine.
https://cepr.net/publications/the-winning-and-losing-countries-from-high-oil-prices/
“Because American refineries require specific crude blends (and to maximize global market efficiency), the U.S. exports a significant amount of its crude and refined products, while concurrently importing crude oil.”
The US exports a majority of its oil as they don’t have the refining capacity for the type of oil (light sweet crude) it produces. They import heavy crude (mainly from Canada) that they use for domestic use as refineries are designed to refine heavy crude, and US heavy crude production has nearly run dry, mainly from California.
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There are two things Americans love the most: boasting how much democracy and freedom they have, and waiting for some misterious "them" to do something.
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Wrong, because you wouldn't start a revolution. But hey, yo are no communists or anarchists right? Why fight when you can complain and pay 5 per gallon.
I don’t really know whether that’s bad or good on account of gallon being a measurement unit for hats.
It was down to $3.89 when I filled up yesterday.
it was at a club store gas station, so I'm not sure how much they are actively suppressing the price to keep people spending in the store. Elsewhere I was seeing from around 4.29 to 4.50 on Saturday in PA.
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