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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!
Would be funny if this was what finally got us to switch to metric. Could happen, too, when combined with shrinkflation generally. Because nothing pushes social change like business profits.
This is because DEMOCRATS!
-Republican Voters UNIRONICALLY!
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.
I think it goes beyond mental gymnastics into mental contortionism.
Tell them to name one problem, and show their work that Dems caused it, Repubs are trying to fix it, and how that caused diesel prices to spike.
Spoiler, they can’t.
“I was told there would not be fact checking”
Racism brings out the creative side in people, who would’a thunk it?
Wouldnt want an unstable woman in charge of things now, would we?
/s for those with glacial mental faculties
Instead we have a demented queen.
The difference in gas prices between California and red states is still bigger than the difference between before and after Trump attacked Iran.
Its up about the same percentage as Texas.
Texas $3.23 pre war, $5.81 current. California $4.66 pre war, $8.14 current.
Would like to see proof of that.
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.
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.
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
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!
Ha! You fool! You think there’s infinite electrons to put in your dastardly e-buckets???!!!?
Imagine running out of electrons, having to walk miles to the nearest facility to fill up your bucket, then walk all the way back with electrons sloshing out all over the place
Please can you spare an ion?
This is the future liberals want!
Do you think energy for your car just falls from the sky?
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.
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.
This will be the tipping point that causes the US to switch to metric.
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.
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 🙂
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.
In France I’m seeing 2.1€ per liter of 95-E10
I just saw €2,56 diesel on my way home today. (For the americans, that’d be around $11,2 per us gallon.
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?
Hmm. I think I got the year wrong. I was still in university in 2001. It was probably 2003. So, not 9/11.
Now you can change to selling by litres
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.
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.
Don’t worry, they’ll fix the machines soon, and they will be able to go above 10. All is well.
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)
Or maybe they will finally use the international system of measurements. Nah, they will fix the machines.
excellent news, I also see Calvin’s dads wish has come true.
Every time the price of gas spikes, people ask me about my ebike, a coworker was asking about it yesterday lol.
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 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.
Just charge per liter.
That would confuse the hell out of Americans :)
Teehee
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
Americans are quite familiar with liters: it’s the size Coca Cola comes in.
I mean, this was the goal
It’s a great big club and you and me ain’t in it.
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!
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.
