Finally, Americans see what Europeans live with.
Enjoy your Kia Piccantos 🤣
If my conversion is correct, that would be aprox 1.45euro/L for Reguolar. Super close to prior-to-iran-war prices but would love to see them pay 2.50.
For US netizens, again if I am converting the right way, 2.50eur/L of Regular would be around $11 per gallon.
Who is paying 2.50 a litre for fuel?
That’s insane.
The pump close by at the highway is at €2,579/liter here in The Netherlands.
Wow. That’s alot. But Netherlands is so expensive. I love the country but it’s unreal how much you guys pay for stuff.
Where I am at right now, 1L of Super E10/95 octane is 2.10euro while Diesel can go as high as 2.29. Outside of the city I have seen 2.29 for Super E10/95 octane.
Not 2.50 yet, and probably will go down since, allegedly, Iran/USA bombing is done for now. But I cant pass over the fact that it got from 1.60 to 2.20 in a span of one month. Fucking happy my car has 1.2L engine.
We can’t even do that…
This is kind of the problem. Most small cars aren’t even sold here. For another example, Ford sells the Mustang. Everything else is trucks, SUV’s, and commercial vans.
Don’t they do a 1.6l Mustang these days?
But soon you can buy a Xeinpeng Mighty Seagull with Android Prune Candy dispenser!
Enjoy your Kia Piccantos
Americans will eat from dumpsters before they give up their V8 pickups.
The gas prices out here are bonkers. I changed my commute to VTA light rail + Caltrain and a lot of walking just to avoid filling up so much. Definitively makes the commute worse compared to driving, public transit is messy and inefficient here, but gas prices are close to double what they were pre-war (at cheap stations like Rotten Robbie at least).
'Murica - we need to CRUSH Iran 💪
Also 'murica - why is our gas so pricey? 😭😭😭
Is this some kind of empirical joke I’m too metric to understand?
I kid, I’m Canadian so I know off the top of my head a gallon is 3.81 litres.
*Imperial
Empiricism is a different thing entirely
US gallon is 3.8l, Imperial gallon is 4.54l.
A superior measurement system uses the same term for two different amounts of something.
I always pump for 20 Swiss francs so i dont care.
Until ur car runs out of gas one time when driving to work, cos 20 bucks doesn’t give u enough gas anymore to drive this far.
Where are my buddies: coal rollers? What happened to them?
Parked at home :)
Sucks that the US is so car-centric. If there was actual public transit (especially of the electric variety), people would struggle a little less.
The same thing happened during the pandemic. Cities are built with large zoned swaths for residential, business and commercial all divided. When you can get around easy, that can work. But then suddenly with the WFH shift, entire sections were greatly impacted (such as restaurants in business districts).
On the other hand, Asian and European cities that have dense mixed use zoning fared much better because the restaurants could serve people regardless if they were wfh or at an office.
that costco membership paid for itself in one tank
“With car wash”
What a racket. I haven’t lived in America for almost 15 years, and back then these stations were the disreputable ones you actively avoided unless you were coasting on empty. How good could a car wash “at the pump” even be?
How does the car wash price work, why is it cheaper than without? Is the implication that the car wash is a separate charge all together? If so, pretty disingenuous to waste so much space with lower prices than to say "Car wash $20 & save 20¢ per gallon
It’s actually not cheaper because they tack on $10 or $20 or whatever the charge is for the car wash to the bottom of your bill after charging you the “lower” price for gas. Usually they’re good for a week or two and they’re hoping you’ll forget about it altogether but even if you do use the car wash, what they have charged you is 1000% more than the car wash costs them. It’s scammy all the way around, very typically American, sadly.
Don’t think the wash is “at the pump”. The ones I’ve seen are like buy 6 gallons at the inflated price and you’ll get a code to enter at the drive through car wash around back. So you pay like $6 extra at the pump and you get a code for the $8-10 wash which isn’t horrible of you are fine with the drive through washes (personally think they do a horrible job and I end up doing I it a second time when I use them)
Is America already great?
I remember the MAGA trash putting stickers of Joe Biden on gas pumps when it was $2.60 a gallon. Scum pretty silent now.
Oh, they’re very loud when they see a Trump pointing meme stickered to the pumps now.
So, so great. Thanks for asking
It’s going to be emitting less carbon dioxide, at any rate.
I grew up in CA and left 35 years ago.
I miss easy access to the beach and mountains, but putting up with the high prices and people just wasn’t worth it.
FYI: At many of these stations (they make the same offer all over), you can just ignore the car wash price. First of all, the cost of the car wash is going to make the bill higher regardless. You won’t save enough on most vehicles to offset the price of the wash. At best, you have a gas guzzling van you filled up, and broke even… on getting your van wet. Those automated car wash garages aren’t actually washing shit. They’ll get some stuff off, but they won’t get most of it. And for most drivers, you’ll actually spend more money that way.
Another scam stations run is a “cash price.” It’s fine if you bring the cash, but if you don’t, they have an ATM that will charge you $5 to get the cash out, so you’re not actually saving money and for some drivers, you’re paying more and wasting your time. But if you know about how much gas you need and can do the math, or you just carry that much cash on the regular, it’s not so much of a scam.
But here’s the thing: on sites like GasBuddy, they’re going to list the cash price or the car wash price, not the actual price. They don’t have to stipulate that you have to spend money and/or time to get those prices. Your best bet is to simply not patronise stations that engage in deceptive pricing, even if it means spending a bit more per gallon down the street.
Another scam stations run is a “cash price.”
FWIW, if you use a debit card and run it as debit (bypassing Visa or Mastarcard or whatever) then you will get the cash price and don’t need to bring physical money. I’m sure some of the scam is to advertise lower prices when most people will use credit, but they’re also charged a 3% fee from the credit card companies, and they’re not going to eat that cost, so it gets passed to the consumer.
on sites like GasBuddy, they’re going to list the cash price or the car wash price, not the actual price.
Anyone can report the prices on GasBuddy. There is a shady Chevron like the one in the picture next to the station I use, I have rarely if ever seen the cash prices in GasBuddy.
8.199$/gallon, that’s 1.846 €/Liter Diesel. Meanwhile in Germany I had to fill up at 2.389 €/Liter, at times it’s over 2.50
I have seen it up to 2,7€/L here in France. The average price is 2,3€/L yet.
Diesel is equivalent to 2 €/Liter in Australia right now. Given that the country runs on diesel, its a nightmare. Even the few people who don’t own cars are hurting, because the ships that bring in food run on diesel, the trucks and trains that bring the food from the ports to the rest of the country run on diesel. The grain producers and cattle farms, some of which are the size of small countries, all run on diesel. The cost of diesel is hitting everyone.
brazil here, diesel is 6.49 BRL per liter here, that’s less than an euro, turns out all that sugar cane ethanol did help with something0
From what I’ve read, sugarcane is significantly better for making fuel than the corn we use. But the climate in the U.S. obviously not correct for it to be produced at the scale needed, except for possibly small areas in the most southern states.
yay for having some energy independence
Oh, I wish we could have that cheap gas here, you lucky bastards.
I love to see it because all the idiots in their gas guzzling, coal rolling trucks get hit way harder than I do.
Yeah, same here honestly
Lol
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