• Gerudo@lemmy.zip
      53·
      13 天前

      Someone online posted that the reason things are all expensive, is the Rs are trying to fix all the problems caused by Democrats.

      I can’t understand the mental gymnastics needed to come up with, and believe that statement.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
      7·
      13 天前

      Wouldnt want an unstable woman in charge of things now, would we?

      /s for those with glacial mental faculties

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      13 天前

      The difference in gas prices between California and red states is still bigger than the difference between before and after Trump attacked Iran.

      • fake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        13 天前

        Its up about the same percentage as Texas.

        Texas $3.23 pre war, $5.81 current. California $4.66 pre war, $8.14 current.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        1·
        12 天前

        California has a history of importing fuel from Asia. Difficulty related to crossing the rockies on trucking. Though I’m surprised there isn’t a rail option. Prices are much higher in Asia.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
    45·
    13 天前

    It’s inevitable. Obviously this is caused by a political disruption, but oil is a finite resource. People are eventually going to be economically forced to switch to electric, and putting it off for ethnocentrism reasons is just poor policy.

    • Fishnoodle@lemmy.world
      231·
      13 天前

      One COVID like event could collapse demand in a matter of weeks, like it did last time and gas dropped to 1.85 a gallon where I live. No one was going anywhere. Air quality improved, and really nothing changed. Same self hating dipshit pedo/closet gay/rape ape president.

      Almost like he’s setup his whole 1st term to benefit the middle east oil subsidies his family has invested in. Like how the Liv golf foundation was just a way to funnel money to right wing Assholes

      • droans@lemmy.world
        3·
        12 天前

        That’s not that fair to say.

        He’s also set up his second term to enrich himself and his inner circle at our expense, too!

    • teslekova@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      12 天前

      Ha! You fool! You think there’s infinite electrons to put in your dastardly e-buckets???!!!?

    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
      23·
      13 天前

      California has higher than average gas prices for a myriad of complications reasons, not the least of which being a largely independent Petro industry.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    423·
    12 天前

    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.

    • mobyduck648@lemmy.world
      7·
      12 天前

      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.

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
      32·
      12 天前

      It isnt, most european countries usually have much lower prices. Even with the current situation the median is arround 8usd/gallon.

      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        12 天前

        You must live where it’s cheaper. I gassed up this morning in Scandinavia and it was over 2.4€ per liter for diesel.

          • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            12 天前

            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 🙂

        • MBech@feddit.dk
          2·
          12 天前

          I just saw €2,56 diesel on my way home today. (For the americans, that’d be around $11,2 per us gallon.

          • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            12 天前

            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.

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    13 天前

    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.

  • teslekova@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    12 天前

    Don’t worry, they’ll fix the machines soon, and they will be able to go above 10. All is well.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      12 天前

      Kinda surprised this hasn’t happened. They wouldn’t need to upgrade the sign, and it would fool a lot of people. At least for a minute.

      • jdr@lemmy.ml
        1·
        12 天前

        You can’t fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool most of your customers until the end of the next reporting period.

  • Linda R@nord.pubEnglish
    11·
    12 天前

    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

    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml
      3·
      12 天前

      So you telling me the US will start using metric because it’ll be cheaper than replacing/upgrading every pump to display another digit…

      • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        12 天前

        I remember when they started selling gasoline by the 1/2 gallon - because the price went over $1.00/gal and the pumps didn’t have a dollar position to program into them. I said then they should go up to at least two dollar digits per gallon, but no one listened to me - just like today.

        Gosh I must be old.

    • MBech@feddit.dk
      12·
      12 天前

      The difference is that the rest of the world isn’t directly to blame for the current prices (except for Russia and Israel who are absolutely part of the blame). The rest of the world are just victims of USA’s retarded decisions.

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    12 天前

    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)