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[–] 3 points 20 hours ago

Too bad the train infrastructure in the USA is so abysmal.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    "...for a long list of goods."

    You mean like anything that traveled a mile on a truck?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Goods? Expensive

    Workers rights? Removed

    Environment? Fucked

    Libs? Owned

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Datacentres run on diesel generators when the grid cannot provide enough power.

    This is why diesel is so expensive.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Also. Also the war and insider trading - you know the regular capitalism stuff.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    There is nothing “regular” about the current unregulated capitalism going on in the US at the moment.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    So the shitty trading and deals are your pet peeve but not the attack on foreign oil producers.

    The great pumpkin SANK 3 tankers last week. Not hijacked or shot at. But sank. Huge ecological disasters. This is all voluntary.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    $4.43 per gallon is still only ⅔ of the price as in Northern Europe right now lol. But I guess we're better off to pay for it? Less dependent on it? I dunno. I have an EV so it's whatever for me, personally.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Ah, I went by the image. Okay, $5.85 is still about ¾ of the price. 😄

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Hasn't been that cheap in months in California. Diesel has been $7 a gallon since February

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (4 children)

    Still less than 75 % of the maximum price of gasoline here during the pandemic in combination with the Ukraine war. 😅

    Diesel is $8.30/gallon here now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    20 min bike ride. Also I don't use gasoline or diesel, I have an EV.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    So your commute is a fraction of a commute in the US.

    Here it might be a 30-45 minute ride in a car. One way. Do you see why $5 fuel would be a much larger problem here?

    I have an EV

    Good for you. So do I.

    Everything you own and eat involves a diesel engine somewhere. That is the real problem. People with EV's have to eat still.

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  • [–] 0 points 23 hours ago

    So your commute is a fraction of a commute in the US.

    lol what. My commute is that long. Lots of people have longer commutes than 30–45 minutes here too. I'm one person. An anecdote. 😆

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Their goal is to make life nearly unlivable by elections so they can do something drastic.

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  • Which could have been mitigated if the big railroad monopolies had electrified their rail like other large freight railroads but noooo no investment only squeezing profits.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    I'm sure plenty of diesel users in America voted for trump, so fuck em

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Winning looks so good

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  • Make all the things great, price tags, national debt, his book of crimes and general assholery is great enough to be split into volumes by now...

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    That's nothing, a gallon here would be $31. However in the bland UK, we use litres. Our price is about £1.90 a litre for diesel

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    What math are you using lmao.

    The Pound is not that much more than the Dollar (£1 is $1.35), and a liter is not that much smaller than a gallon (1 gallon is 3.79 liter).

    1 US gallon in the UK would be £7.20 which is $9.73

    To be the equivalent of $31 per gallon, it would need to be £6.05 per liter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Just as Chris Wright, Secretary for Energy says that all we need to do is drive less.......

    https://www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-labor-day-iran-war-driving-chris-wright-energy-2026-9

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