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LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO! Now we have to buy displays with more digits? That’s going to mean higher gas prices for you. You just don’t learn, do you?
Change from gallons to liters and the sky is the limit!
I did and 5 years ago, I purchased an EV as a precaution.
If anyone is counting on the O&G crew to give you a break, I’ve got an orphan well to sell you.
Is it just the big signs that can’t understand $10+ print (fixed with some cardboard), or are the pump programming incapable of calculating higher price? Y2k 2.0
Well, it’s just starting. We didn’t see it earlier because it was the weekend.
Well, it’s just starting.
Costco is now rationing motor oil. And US crops will have no fertilizer this spring. Good thing you guys are winning the war!
As a comparison: The cheapest diesel available in Finland right now on September the 14th is 2.222 € per litre. That translates to 9.71 USD per gallon. The most expensive available today is 2.611 €/l, translating to 11.41 $/gallon
So you telling me the US will start using metric because it’ll be cheaper than replacing/upgrading every pump to display another digit…
I had a Car Crisis back in '04 and the only car on the market I could afford was a beat up 86 Suburban that couldn’t have gotten more than 12mpg.
I think gas was hovering around $2.50 a gallon at that time and shit was dire, I can only imagine how rough it is for the poor souls nowadays that Need A Truck.
I rented minivans to move my kids into their dorms, and they had outstanding mileage. That was my “truck” requirement
The thing is, it seems like there are two primary groups of diesel truck owners. One, actually does truck stuff, they tow, they haul, they use it for work.
The others just really wish they were blue collar and so wants to be like the first group. They include a very diverse group of people who are insecure guys that don’t actually do anything terribly useful. They bought the truck but it only goes to an office, a costco, a school pickup line; their poorer brethren are similar, but just go to places like walmart, their ex-wife’s house, and a gas station (to buy cigarettes and put $10 of fuel in).
I feel bad for the people who actually need to use those things. For the goobers who want to cosplay as a laborer, I could not be happier.
Plenty of folks are actually blue collar but don’t need it. You see a lot of trucks in factory parking lots
You just explained my MAGA coworker. GMC 3500 super duty diesel and it’s always super clean, and he mainly uses it for going to the office. Any chance he gets to use his newly purchased trailer, he will, even if it would fit in the bed. He’s really lame.
They’ll append the sign with a tiny 9/10ths of $10 sticker and roll the display back over to $ 1.10. (Forgive me if my math is off, I’m a dreamer, not a do-er)
Or… Just stick a 1 in front of the number?
Or start selling by the
literquart.
Now you know why gasoline is sold by the liter in Europe: you can multiply the price another 3.5x.
$10 / gal is quite typical in Europe.
Welcome to the reality of fossil fuel scarcity and the consequences of stupid wars. It’s high time Americans felt what happens when they do stupid shit in a world of dwindling cheap energy resources.
This will be the tipping point that causes the US to switch to metric.
Amusingly it’s a different gallon in the UK, while it’s mostly obsolete it’s the volume of ten pounds of water or about 4.5 litres.
Fuel has been sold by the litre for many years, but it was deemed too expensive to send someone round changing all the road signs to km/h and kilometres. Fair enough in my view but we then made the absolutely daft decision to keep measure fuel efficiency in miles to the gallon, not miles to the litre or even litres / 100 miles. Confusing to Britons who don’t use gallons for anything else, confusing to other Europeans who’ve been entirely metric for generations, and confusing to Americans who use a different gallon.
It isnt, most european countries usually have much lower prices. Even with the current situation the median is arround 8usd/gallon.
You must live where it’s cheaper. I gassed up this morning in Scandinavia and it was over 2.4€ per liter for diesel.
I just saw €2,56 diesel on my way home today. (For the americans, that’d be around $11,2 per us gallon)
Which is only 8.4€ per galloun.
Where is it $10 per galloun in Europe?
Your math is off though.
€2.40 per Liter is actually €9.08 per gallon, which would be $10.47 per gallon US.
There’s 3.785L to a gallon. 2.40x3.785 is 9.08.
Which is why I, as a Norwegian, have never looked back after switching to a BEV
Well, it’s not really an option for me: I don’t drive nearly enough in a year for the expense to make financial sense, and I don’t want a modern car with all the surveillance equipment built in. I fill up maybe 3 or 4 times a year, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel the pain when I do 🙂
Don’t worry, they’ll fix the machines soon, and they will be able to go above 10. All is well.
Or maybe they will finally use the international system of measurements. Nah, they will fix the machines.
Print out 1s to stick next to the sign display
I remember this happening:
Genius! Promotion! Hire this legend!
(meant in a totally positive way btw, not a being a dick way)
Just charge per liter.
That would confuse the hell out of Americans :)
Teehee
Americans are quite familiar with liters: it’s the size Coca Cola comes in.
We could switch to Big Gulp sizing?
You may be into something, but we’re going to lose a lot of folks to accidental ingestion
I’m fine with that. Maybe a little Darwinism will help raise our average iQ
NGL, if you can. start to holmes out the most locally produced food vendors and farms you can find. Shit’s gonna get expensive very quickly. I’m already looking to start to lay up fresh frozen and canned food now, before the cost rises.
I worked in a gas station in Canada back in 2001 when the price of a liter first broke $1.00. We had to physically stick a 1 up on the electronic sign.
Oh shit yeah I remember that as a kid. What was the hike caused by? 9/11?
https://www.fuel-prices.eu/live/ 3countrys are already past 10 dollars
If we’re gonna use the European sticker price, the US will also need to include the cost of decades of war in the Middle East.
While you are right, prices in the countries listed were never cheap to begin with because fuels in Europe are highly taxed.
Also, for the same reason, most European cars are leagues above US ones in terms of fuel efficiency. Fuel was always expensive here, so we started making and purchasing cars that were smaller and more efficient in order to save.
In the US, efficiency was never the goal because with cheap fuel prices, nobody cared if their truck was huge and drank several times what an European car drank to make the same distance.
It’s about time we got slapped in the face with reality
In short, “womp womp”.
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