Gas prices
Gas prices
During COVID I was paying about $9 per gallon for gas and right about $10 for diesel. Right now my daughter is paying $9.80 a gallon.
This was Germany
While it’s a significant jump over the last month, the United States and Canada are experiencing about the same price increase proportionally.
Graph: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?”
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
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.
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
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…