• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    4.18 in my town in Oklahoma. Fucking nuts. Thanks to Trump. Notice all my neighbors suddenly put away their Trump flags, but I already mark them. I know who you are.

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      2 months ago

      I drop a pin on Google Maps whenever I encounter a building flying a traitor’s flag. I wonder if that can be crowd sourced into a big Dammaz Kron of MAGA chuds.

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      I moved from Tulsa a couple years ago to Cali. When I got here it was a bit of sticker shock for things like gas. At the time it was about 3.60 now though it’s creeping towards 7.00 I’ve noticed the same with the trump idiots around my town. They should own it.

      Fucking nuts.

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    2 months ago

    Lower prices were mostly concentrated around the Southeast, with Georgia having the lowest average cost for a regular gallon of gas in the U.S. at about $4.01.

    In case you were wondering where the hell it’s $4.

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      2 months ago

      MAGA, they’ll pivot, throw some cabinet members undes the bus, adjust the fascism a little (focus on latam). See Tucker Carlson

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    2 months ago

    Doing some math, it’s over $12 per gallon where I live (€2.50-ish per liter).

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    2 months ago

    I keep seeing these articles about how cheap Americans get petrol for, but they’re framed as if it’s really expensive and I don’t really understand it tbh. You mean to tell me you’ve been paying less than a dollar a litre until now? Wtf?

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      2 months ago

      I agree, but see it like a 30%+ increase in ~80 days. On top of that, remember that most yankee cars are small pp behemoths that chug 50L/km or something

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    2 months ago

    In 2005 it went this high and I bought a diesel because I had to drive a lot. I’m sure many of you are not old enough to even remember 2005, but back then that some of the high fuel mileage vehicles got a big boost in sales. It lasted for a short time.

    This time we do have at least some electric large vehicle options and so for those who really think their Image depends on driving the biggest vehicle possible. There are options that are not just gas and we’ll see if those last. All electric trucks don’t seem to do well for people who actually NEED a truck, but that’s pretty rare.

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      2 months ago

      ah yes, the ‘it’s clean diesel so if you’re driving further distances it’s better’ bullshit that ushered in dieselgate.

      VW et al convinced fucktons of normally sensible people to pour yet more and worse shit into the atmosphere for over a decade.

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        Dieselgate was later. not that diesel was clean, but in 2005, my car met all emissions regulations at the time without cheating.