• TheWorstMailman@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Fair. But isn’t complaining about gas prices America’s largest export?

      Just checked some other countries and it seems like Canada is the only one that breaks this general pattern, though it’s obviously not rigorous research

      Edit: Also, I don’t really care. I was just venting some frustration to The Internet

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        9 months ago

        You’ve got some of the cheapest gas prices in the US, so I’m not sure anyone needs to import your complaints…

        For reference, here in Germany, it currently costs around 1.70€ per liter, which is $6.97 per gallon.

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          The fed subsidizes the shit out of our fuel because the car industry is lobbying it to because the car industry knows that if Americans pay what the rest of the modern world does for gas, then chugga chugga choo choo motherfuckers, we’re finally building some goddamned trains.

          That, or they won’t get to sell their huge, overly marked up trucks to middle class suburbanites anymore.

          Either of those things would be good for everyone.

          I’d also support regulation that bans modifying the ride height of a vehicle. All bumpers should align as a factory spec. We made 70s cars ugly because they required 5 mph bumpers, but we won’t tell Cletus he can’t make his truck bumper sit at neck level so that he doesn’t wipe out a family of four in a Toyota Corolla when he blows through a red light? Horseshit.

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          9 months ago

          finland checking in at 1,9 €/L. which isn’t even that bad, half a year ago it was 2,3. that’s $9.43 per gallon.

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      9 months ago

      even then petrol isn’t actually very expensive in most places, sweden has “expensive” gas and it’s still not actually an issue if you aren’t an idiot who insists on living in the mountains and has to drive 3 hours to the closest store.

      just get an e-bike and use that whenever the weather’s nice.