Even more fucked when you consider these are the prices in the US with oil subsidies. It would be so much more expensive without them, and only gas-powered vehicles would be paying, and not all of us...
Except that all goods require shipping and most shipping is also done by gas powered vehicles. I wish there was a way to opt out but I don't see it being possible.
As of today, there isn't a place in the US where gas is below $4/gallon, according to GroundNews
A Gallon is 4 Liters right? I just checked the current Diesel price in my country and it's at 9.80USD/Gallon. I hate to agree with the Donald here, but those prices are actually peanuts.
I'm really tired of everyone comparing the US to countries with completely different fuel consumption profiles.
In 2024, 72% of all US freight was transported by trucks. For reference, the EU average was 25% road (sea was 67% with optimal fuel efficiency). Freight is also transported over much longer distances, making gas prices a larger part of operating costs. So already, high gas prices hit much harder in the USA than most places.
Secondly, population density and existing infrastructure require personal car use. There is almost never a rail or public transport option. Despite lower prices and higher average income, fuel spending is a larger percentage of household spending in the US than the EU (especially among the poorer population).
Yes you're right, I agree with you that the conditions are very different because of the reasons you mentioned and the other financial factors like food and rent are probably different too. I admit my original comment comes of very ignorant rereading it now a couple hours later, sorry about that
Well it's a bit more of a problem when pretty much no infrastructure exists for public transit or cycling for the vast majority of the US
We in the USA prepay to a degree for gasoline. Our taxes subsidize the at pump costs to a significant portion. We get charged twice if not more for what we are considering outrageous prices in the US.
I went from paying about 24 dollars a week to get to and from work, do errands and child care. Now I'm up to 70+ a week.
For your country what did diesel cost last year?
All of the gas around here is under $4...
It's under $4 here, it's 3.97.............................
Start putting these on the pumps:
Fairly certain my Trump “I did that” stickers come down the same day I put them up.
Glad I sprung for the 100 pack.
Cut them after you put them up. Like slice them so when they go to peel them off they have to peel off a bunch of bits of sticker and not the whole thing at once.
I bet anything the same bunch that were screaming "make comedy legal again!!111eleventy!" and slapping their knees at how hilarious those Biden "I did that" stickers were (even though he had quite literally nothing at all to do with gas prices OR inflation) are now squealing in agony and racing to tear those down when they see the highly accurate and very apropos Trump "I did that" stickers, though. 🤣
We are ruled by the dumbest dipshits on the planet.
They're dumb but they're also ruthless, they rape and kill children with their bare hands, don't underestimate them just because they're dumb.
I dunno how much longer Bobby John from Oklahoma can take filling up his RAM 3500 Dually lifted XTREME offRoad Pavement Princess Edition™ @ $150 a pop for much longer, Mr. Pedo. You're making your cult followers very angry!
Keep it up!
The baseline tank size for a ram 3500 is 32 gallons. Diesel is $5.74/gal on average in the Midwest. So a full fill up is ~$184/tank. You underestimated that, yikes.
For more fun, you can also upgrade to a 50 gallon tank, making it $287/tank.
These get a respectable ~18 mpg, so $0.32 per mile.
Just throwing money away
They get 18mpg when you drive them like a fucking baby on the highway. Your average idiot who floors it at every stoplight, and does 90 on the interstate gets half that.
Don't forget the ~~fucking idiots~~ totally cool and definitely not compensating intellectuals that "roll coal".
“Tuning” trucks to roll coal is also just turning up the fuel injector duration so they are also blowing extra diesel out basically unburned.
Cutting off your toes to make people pay attention to your semi-weekly pedicure.
I have a Subaru WRX and it requires 91+ octane. It was $5.64/gal for me a couple days ago square in the Midwest. $71 to fill up and my gas light wasn't even on. Right next to the 91 on the pump was 88 at < $4.50/gal. When I filled up 2 weeks ago it was $5.09 then 2 days later $5.39. Fuck Trump and his admin so hard.
I just perused approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.
But it's a lot. Independence and Democrats so much less so that his overall approval rating is like 38% last I checked, nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.
Remember towards the end of his first term he was around 40%, and Biden was at 40% for 3 years and did nothing to change that.
nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.
That’s what Fox News, AM radio and this lovely new crop of manosphere jerkoffs are all put on the air to do. Create this cult.
Propaganda works. Usually only in one direction, usually only on most people. Add some evil-science military psyop characteristics and yeah. You get that.
If our billionaire ‘free’ press could get to breaking that down, that’d be great kthx.
approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.
Let's just cut our losses and all agree the USA experiment is a failure. Just split it up.
The problem is, the split is largely rural vs. urban, which is scattered all over the country.
Lots of "peanuts" were burned up to fly a Boeing 747 or a chopper to a fucking golf course.
Just remember that the current UK equivalent is $8.30 for Diesel and $7.88 for gas/petrol
I'm sure you can do better
Maybe you should spend a trillion dollars a year on a military whose only purpose is to lower that number a few dollars per gallon
Americans have had cheap fuel since forever
They also seem to like stupid vehicles that are incredibly inefficient
I love my little electric car. I have solar at home and have never once charged at a station and paid for it
He's never filled his own gas tank. He has no idea what the fuck we are talking about.
You try filling up a helicopter to weekend at your ancestral home in Valley Forge, JFC !
You povvos have no idea.
FFS, you can't keep polo horses in Manhatten, the noise and pollution stresses them.
It's a peanut, Michael! How much could it cost?
This just shows how completely out of touch this asshat is.
What does a gallon of gas cost? $100?
also, peanuts now $29 a can.
I mean yeah, we are sacrificing so much, but the pain is temporary, and a small price to pay for giving Iran a massive strategic boost they couldn't have gotten any other way!
A station in Iowa had gas for $1.85...but I was down to less than $2/gallon
... isn't $1.85 under $2.00? I swear 1 came before 2 when I learned.
Let them eat cake...
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