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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (4 children)

Who the fuck buys gas multiple times a week??

I buy gas about once a month, maybe twice if I go on a trip.

I’d be happiest if gas was $10/gal or more, maybe it would rip this fucking driving fetish out of some folks minds.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If you drive every day, you're probably going to buy gas at least twice a week, especially if you don't like being too low. Plus, traffic is terrible where I live, and you burn a LOT of gas just sitting.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Most vehicles have a fuel tank capacity to give about 300-400 miles range.

    Who is driving 600-800 miles every week? That is insane.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It's common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.

    I live at the southern tip of my population area. It's 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.

    If you own a home, and you get a new job that's in the same region, but even farther away, you don't buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.

    Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that's why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.

    And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.

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