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average euro prices of fuels would kill american on contact
Canada is not much better. $1.70 to $2.05 (or more!) a litre. That works out to $4.75+ /gallon
During COVID I was paying about $9 per gallon for gas and right about $10 for diesel. Right now my daughter is paying $9.80 a gallon for diesel.
This was Germany
I'm just impressed you did both conversions.
I think that's a Canadian superpower due to the ungodly mix of imperial and metric units that's going on there.
While it's a significant jump over the last month, the United States and Canada are experiencing about the same price increase proportionally.
Graph:
Australia is 8.22 usd per gallon for diesel.
Just as the average price in Hong Kong would kill a European on contact.
The price per unit is less shocking than the percentage increase from February to now, which is more or less the same regardless of what continent you're on.
perhaps, but only americans bitch about it so loud that you can hear it across the ocean
I mean yeah lol. I used to drive 80 (~128 km) miles a day to go to university. I would have been broke with European gas prices.
And yes I would have loved to have taken public transit there, but it simply didn't exist
I'm annoyed that we still even have gas. Where is my Solarpunk!?!
I unironicaly contemplated breaking out of a bus and attacking a pipeline with whatever I could find during a trip to a monastery. Main reason I didn't was my family was with me.
So, yeah, I was that close to just doing it.
Imagine my glee when I heard Ukraine was blowing up pipelines, and America refineries.
Perfect...
I'm annoyed that we still even have gas. Where is my Solarpunk!?!
mehhh we charge our ev and ebikes off solar on our roof.
Alas we're Australian and our rail is 18th century and mostly closed down, rather then prolific and electrified because... well, we're fucking idiots.
Americans don't learn metric precisely to not understand European fuel prices.
"What's a leetur?"
"How much is a You-Row?"
They just keep beating their foreheads against the steering wheel an saying, "IloveTrump, IloveTrump," over and over again.
BTW what's happening with coal rollers?
Imma city bus driver. The other day I was pulled over picking someone up, and wouldn't you know it, some asshat in an obnoxious truck coal rolls me. And of course I had my window open because spring.
I gotta say the noise is worse than the smoke. Why anyone would spend money to make their vehicle sound that way will forever baffle me.
But anyways, to my joy the guy was immediately pulled over! I asked around and I guess the guy got nailed for: interfering with transit operations, illegal tint, and failure to obey traffic signals. About 350$'s worth of tickets.
$350 not enough. Coal rolling is objectively bad for everything including the driver. It's a great metaphor for certain Americans (and maybe us as a whole)
I've always wanted to try a really loud car. Same goes for those loud motorcycles.I can't imagine the constant loud noise everywhere you go. You can't sneak home when it's late. Going out to just pick up some groceries? Well looks like your breaking the sound barrier doing it.
remove your vehicle’s catalytic converter to achieve amazing jet engine sound effects!
I was next to a truck the other day, and the driver looked like he was in severe distress. He must have been thinking, "I really want people to know what an irredeemable unrepentant asshole I am, but there are a few people out there who can't figure it out just by looking at my large, shiny pickup truck that has obviously never been used to haul anything. Even though that's a 100% guarantee. If only I could afford to roll coal again! This is all Joe Biden's fault."
I'm just kidding. Who can afford to drive these days?
mating season? did I miss the memo?
It’s a joke about animals that try to attract the opposite sex by being loud and obnoxious (like a peacock) to try to lure a partner in during their mating season. It’s a biological trait in most species.
What’s ridiculous is all the yanks whining about their criminally underpriced fuel prices just because their domestic car manufacturers never learned how to build a decent engine and the cost has gone up a tiny bit because their shithole country decided to bomb a major oil producer.
It affects me because we have no public transit infrastructure, and housing in the city is so fucking expensive I have to live in a mobile home park 40 miles away from my office.
While Europeans have more expensive gas, how many of them need to drive 80 miles a day?
At least tens of millions. 40 miles is not a long commute.
40 miles with no option but to drive?
Yup. You’re acting like everyone has a train station next door or something.
I still see them rolling coal, but the prices haven't hit my state hard yet since we refine it.
If they roll coal, they really shouldn't be complaining about fuel prices anyway since the "coal" is purposefully unburnt fuel that doesn't give the truck any extra power or anything. One could easily improve fuel economy by undoing the crappy coal-rolling tune. Hell, just run a tune that doesn't run overly rich and you can have more power than stock and better fuel economy than either the coal rollers OR the stock folks.
I hate rolling coal but running rich is used to protect an engine under high power output conditions. Mostly in forced induction setups. Extra fuel lowers cylinder and exhaust temperatures because it vaporizes without combusting, pulling heat out of the air fuel mixture during the compression stroke. Leaning out too much is death to an engine.
Untrue for diesel EGTs where a very rich mixture will in fact cause high temps as it will still be doing some burning while it's out of the cylinder already.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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