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

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.

Americans don't learn metric precisely to not understand European fuel prices.

"What's a leetur?"

"How much is a You-Row?"

Australia is 8.22 usd per gallon for diesel.

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

I've been seeing the news for weeks now, but only last week did I actually check what EUR/l those values were and I nearly died laughing...

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...

Shouda gone to war for it.

Imma city bus driver. The other day I was pulled over picking someone up, and wouldn't you know it, some asshat in an obnoxious truck coal rolls me. And of course I had my window open because spring.

I gotta say the noise is worse than the smoke. Why anyone would spend money to make their vehicle sound that way will forever baffle me.

But anyways, to my joy the guy was immediately pulled over! I asked around and I guess the guy got nailed for: interfering with transit operations, illegal tint, and failure to obey traffic signals. About 350$'s worth of tickets.

I was next to a truck the other day, and the driver looked like he was in severe distress. He must have been thinking, "I really want people to know what an irredeemable unrepentant asshole I am, but there are a few people out there who can't figure it out just by looking at my large, shiny pickup truck that has obviously never been used to haul anything. Even though that's a 100% guarantee. If only I could afford to roll coal again! This is all Joe Biden's fault."

I'm just kidding. Who can afford to drive these days?

It affects me because we have no public transit infrastructure, and housing in the city is so fucking expensive I have to live in a mobile home park 40 miles away from my office.

While Europeans have more expensive gas, how many of them need to drive 80 miles a day?

It’s a joke about animals that try to attract the opposite sex by being loud and obnoxious (like a peacock) to try to lure a partner in during their mating season. It’s a biological trait in most species.

If they roll coal, they really shouldn't be complaining about fuel prices anyway since the "coal" is purposefully unburnt fuel that doesn't give the truck any extra power or anything. One could easily improve fuel economy by undoing the crappy coal-rolling tune. Hell, just run a tune that doesn't run overly rich and you can have more power than stock and better fuel economy than either the coal rollers OR the stock folks.