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.

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

/s for those with glacial mental faculties

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

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

Oh shit yeah I remember that as a kid. What was the hike caused by? 9/11?

Print out 1s to stick next to the sign display

Or maybe they will finally use the international system of measurements. Nah, they will fix the machines.

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.

Every time the price of gas spikes, people ask me about my ebike, a coworker was asking about it yesterday lol.

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

You are but the americans seem to think every thing is a competition.

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.

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.

I rented minivans to move my kids into their dorms, and they had outstanding mileage. That was my “truck” requirement

Or... Just stick a 1 in front of the number?

Or start selling by the liter quart.

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!

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.

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.

That would confuse the hell out of Americans :)

Change from gallons to liters and the sky is the limit!

If I remember right its about 15 MPG for most diesel us trucks. So 15 miles, in real numbers about 24 kms. That is not enough to get me to the nearest city from my house. Like 30 kms to even a tim hortens. That is $10 (usd so more here) just to go to town....

I asked a co-worker about his mileage in his 2023 GMC diesel truck, and he was getting around 20 mpg highway.

I had a Ford F150 with a gasoline engine, and it wa good for maybe 17 mpg highway. The nearest gas station that can sell me gas that isn't old or full of water (hooray for rural living) is about 8 miles away. I think that is $1.83 to drive it to the gas station, based on the $3.89 price I saw this morning.

Of course I have to be smug and point out that I get around 4.5 miles per kwh now.

So, I currently have a Chevy Silverado 6.0 liter gas truck. 4 full doors, long bed. I tow a 37ft bumper pull rv with it full time, around 9000lbs loaded. Truck bed is full, maybe another 1200lbs.

I get 7mpg average, and that’s across the country a few times. Unloaded maybe 10mpg. I run up to about 80mph when towing where possible.

My Dodge Ram before it with a 12v Cummins diesel got 14mpg loaded similarly, and about 18-20mpg unloaded (I kept about 500lbs of wood in the bed all the time so it was never really empty).

It’s about $130 to fill up my Chevy right now with current gas prices. We had to do it about six times to move up north this summer for work.

Meanwhile EVs are costing that much per 250 miles or so...