• bridgeburner@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    4·
    6 hours ago

    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!

  • Nexz@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • cymbal_king@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
          3·
          7 hours ago

          And we can all turn to the nearest American when looking who to blame. They voted for this and actively support this.

          • braxy29@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 hours ago

            most Americans did not, in fact, vote for this. most Americans do not, in fact, actively support this.

  • trolololol@lemmy.world
    2·
    23 hours ago

    How did you know?

    Jokes on you, my full tank is $50. Australian dollars. I have a small car to compensate.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    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!

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.