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Gas prices (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 120 points 5 months ago (9 children)

average euro prices of fuels would kill american on contact

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Canada is not much better. $1.70 to $2.05 (or more!) a litre. That works out to $4.75+ /gallon

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm just impressed you did both conversions.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Just as the average price in Hong Kong would kill a European on contact.

    The price per unit is less shocking than the percentage increase from February to now, which is more or less the same regardless of what continent you're on.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I mean yeah lol. I used to drive 80 (~128 km) miles a day to go to university. I would have been broke with European gas prices.

    And yes I would have loved to have taken public transit there, but it simply didn't exist

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    That's over 1h of driving, even without traffic, each way. Are you mental?

    Even with mass transit here, you don't do that commute every day for several years - you rent a room closer to the uni, and go back home only during weekends.

    Edit: sorry I just realised you said that's total per day. Still might be cheaper to rent...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not mental just poor. Stayed at home and went to the local uni because it was affordable.

    It was 1hr each way, but about 80 miles total. There was never really much traffic at least.

    I drove a fuel efficient car so this was definitely cheaper than renting plus utilities. Probably costed about $60 a week in gas. $240 was not enough to get a room, rooms went for about $400. Even then I'd still have to drive from the room to campus

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not mental just poor

    apparently rich enough to drive 80miles each day... in a car.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I mean I did the math for you.

    Not having a car where I'm from is abject poverty. The nearest store to me growing up was a gas station 3 miles away. Absolutely no public transport at all. You had to have a car to eat and to work or to do basically anything.

    My first 2 years of college I car pooled with a friend and worked by sharing a car with my parents. Eventually I saved up and could buy a used car that was a decade old

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm annoyed that we still even have gas. Where is my Solarpunk!?!

    I unironicaly contemplated breaking out of a bus and attacking a pipeline with whatever I could find during a trip to a monastery. Main reason I didn't was my family was with me.

    So, yeah, I was that close to just doing it.

    Imagine my glee when I heard Ukraine was blowing up pipelines, and America refineries.

    Perfect...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'm annoyed that we still even have gas. Where is my Solarpunk!?!

    mehhh we charge our ev and ebikes off solar on our roof.

    Alas we're Australian and our rail is 18th century and mostly closed down, rather then prolific and electrified because... well, we're fucking idiots.

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