Canada is not much better. $1.70 to $2.05 (or more!) a litre. That works out to $4.75+ /gallon
Track_Shovel 36 points 7 months ago
Eat_Your_Paisley 30 points 7 months ago
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
Remember_the_tooth 16 points 7 months ago
I'm just impressed you did both conversions.
Pissmidget 6 points 7 months ago
Maybe that's why they're always apologizing, feeling guilty due to their relationship with units!
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JoshuaFalken 6 points 7 months ago
While it's a significant jump over the last month, the United States and Canada are experiencing about the same price increase proportionally.
TheGoldenV 3 points 7 months ago
Now do rods to the hogs head!
WalrusDragonOnABike 1 point 7 months ago
Could you convert that to chain/butt for me?
JoshuaFalken 7 points 7 months ago
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.
fullsquare 7 points 7 months ago
perhaps, but only americans bitch about it so loud that you can hear it across the ocean
ChicoSuave 7 points 7 months ago
Americans don't learn metric precisely to not understand European fuel prices.
"What's a leetur?"
"How much is a You-Row?"
nightofmichelinstars 6 points 7 months ago
Why row when you can use an outboard motor
BiggestPiggest 4 points 7 months ago
Australia is 8.22 usd per gallon for diesel.
arrow74 4 points 7 months ago
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
ByteJunk 4 points 7 months ago
That's over 1h of driving, even without traffic, each way. Are you mental?
Even with mass transit here, you don't do that commute every day for several years - you rent a room closer to the uni, and go back home only during weekends.
Edit: sorry I just realised you said that's total per day. Still might be cheaper to rent...
arrow74 4 points 7 months ago
Not mental just poor. Stayed at home and went to the local uni because it was affordable.
It was 1hr each way, but about 80 miles total. There was never really much traffic at least.
I drove a fuel efficient car so this was definitely cheaper than renting plus utilities. Probably costed about $60 a week in gas. $240 was not enough to get a room, rooms went for about $400. Even then I'd still have to drive from the room to campus
WorldsDumbestMan 3 points 7 months ago
I'm annoyed that we still even have gas. Where is my Solarpunk!?!
I unironicaly contemplated breaking out of a bus and attacking a pipeline with whatever I could find during a trip to a monastery. Main reason I didn't was my family was with me.
So, yeah, I was that close to just doing it.
Imagine my glee when I heard Ukraine was blowing up pipelines, and America refineries.
Perfect...
hanrahan 2 points 7 months ago
I'm annoyed that we still even have gas. Where is my Solarpunk!?!
mehhh we charge our ev and ebikes off solar on our roof.
Alas we're Australian and our rail is 18th century and mostly closed down, rather then prolific and electrified because... well, we're fucking idiots.
stupidcasey 2 points 7 months ago
Shouda gone to war for it.
vivalapivo 17 points 7 months ago
BTW what's happening with coal rollers?
MintyFresh 28 points 7 months ago
Imma city bus driver. The other day I was pulled over picking someone up, and wouldn't you know it, some asshat in an obnoxious truck coal rolls me. And of course I had my window open because spring.
I gotta say the noise is worse than the smoke. Why anyone would spend money to make their vehicle sound that way will forever baffle me.
But anyways, to my joy the guy was immediately pulled over! I asked around and I guess the guy got nailed for: interfering with transit operations, illegal tint, and failure to obey traffic signals. About 350$'s worth of tickets.
Bustedknuckles 26 points 7 months ago
$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)
exasperation 3 points 7 months ago
There's a documentary series, "How To by John Wilson," that's on HBO (at least in the US), and it's basically a Nathan Fielder style absurdist look at the world, with a bunch of real world footage edited together, sometimes with a voiceover, for comedic effect.
But one of the episodes has him going out to figure out why people roll coal, and he interviews a guy who does it, who cannot string together any coherent thought behind it. It's amazing television.
eletes 6 points 7 months ago
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.
Aceticon 1 point 7 months ago
In an ICE car the part of the tailpipe which is wider (which I believe is also were the catalytic converter is) is tuned to change the engine noise (mostly to reduce it, but it can also be tuned to make it "purr" rather than "roar", like in sports cars)
Cut that out and the car becomes much louder (and if it's not diesel, I believe it's with the kind engine sound one associates with muscle cars).
boonhet 2 points 7 months ago
The catalytic converter is up front near the engine, but usually when people want to make noisy, they just cut off or empty out the back boxes. Previous owner of my car did it, actually makes the exhaust of my 3.0 TDi sound kinda sporty, not like a diesel. But it IS a bit loud, I try to keep it under 1500 RPM or ideally even 1200 RPM if driving home at nighttime because at low speeds the exhaust actually makes more noise than the tires. At highway speeds you're back to the tires being the noisiest part of the car unless you floor it.
boonhet 1 point 7 months ago
My car's had the back boxes cleared out by the previous owner. It's pretty loud at idle or when accelerating, but you don't notice it while cruising at a steady speed because at 50 km/h it's not significantly above tire noise anymore, and at 90 km/h you only really hear tire and wind noise, no exhaust.
Now if you cut out the resonators, that might cause significant highway drone that would be annoying as hell.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 7 months ago
You live in a place where it's warm enough to have spring weather in March (it's still around freezing here) but the city doesn't use busses with air conditioners?
boonhet 2 points 7 months ago
Fresh air straight from the window is nice sometimes. At low speeds it's nice to crack a window open in spring when it's like 10C or so. At high speeds an open window becomes annoying and creates drag (to the point that if you need cooling, AC wastes less fuel). Plus at high temps it won't do anything to cool you down anyway. But low speed, medium temperature - hell yeah I'm opening the window.
MintyFresh 1 point 7 months ago
It was like 40f, spring may be a strong word for what's happening. The snow is starting to melt. Tis glorious. And yes, we do have AC's that kinda sorta work on a good day.
BillyClark 22 points 7 months ago
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?
vivalapivo 1 point 7 months ago
Crypto bros who bought trump coin in previous January?
thanksforallthefish 1 point 7 months ago
Pretty sure the trump coin tanked so they lost all their money didnt it ?
vivalapivo 2 points 7 months ago
Of course it did
Thebeardedsinglemalt 1 point 7 months ago
Yeah, if only people would have learned their lesson in the 70s...or the peak oil concerns in the late aughts mixed with the Deepwater Disaster...
ohulancutash 8 points 7 months ago
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.
chiliedogg 6 points 7 months ago
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?
ohulancutash 1 point 7 months ago
At least tens of millions. 40 miles is not a long commute.
chiliedogg 3 points 7 months ago
40 miles with no option but to drive?
ohulancutash 2 points 7 months ago
Yup. You’re acting like everyone has a train station next door or something.
darthsundhaft 5 points 7 months ago
mating season? did I miss the memo?
zewm 8 points 7 months ago
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.
boonhet 2 points 7 months ago
Humans have mating season too, it's from January till December.
Or March till October if you live at a really high latitude and it gets so dark and depressing in the winter months that you just stay inside.
darthsundhaft 1 point 7 months ago
Thank you for explaining. 🙏
village604 2 points 7 months ago
I still see them rolling coal, but the prices haven't hit my state hard yet since we refine it.
boonhet 2 points 7 months ago
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.
pahlimur 1 point 7 months ago
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.
pahlimur 1 point 7 months ago
Wrong. No oxygen is left so it can't burn. It exits the exhaust as unburnt fuel exactly as you stated in your original comment.
Extra fuel in a diesel cycle is used as coolant just like in any of the gas cycles. Gas is see through when it vaporizes, diesel isn't. A turboed gas engine rolls coal too but it only smells bad if it lacks emissions systems.
stupidcasey 1 point 7 months ago
Same people who would say the lifted truck has no purpose.
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