Better get yourself a 50gal barrel before they start rationing fuel.
It’s the TP rush all over again but for gas!
Unites States of america, read carefully! Gas = liquefied petroleum gas(LPG) or similar gaseous state stuff. Petrol/Diesel (fuel) = what your cars need (liquid) not gas
LOL, all countries are like this because not everyone wants be an engineer.
I’m an engineer. I used to look at dynamic raster images on a phosphorus coated screen excited by accelerated electrons organized and guided in scan lines by a special electromagnetic steering mechanism while under vacuum. Other people watched TV.
You might not believe it, but liquefied petroleum gas is as technical a term as the word pizza. Everyone understands what it is to a certain level, but it is itself not an actual technical descriptor of what you got in your metal tank. You can have a 5 gallon tank of propane at 300PSIA and you’d have a scientific descriptor of what the stuff inside is.
Finally, gas, liquid or solid, they are all fuels. In America, the qoloquial term in the California, Oregon and Washington state areas (west coast) is gas, short for the trademark “gasoline” as opposed to referring to the fuel’s matter state. In other places people refer to it as petroleum, petrol, fuel. In Mexico there are various fuels for sale at the pump… There is petroleo, which is liquid but is neither gasoline nor diesel but something in between, there’s gasolina and disel. Gasoline in Mexico will have funny terms like magnazin…well WTF does that mean? Do they put magnesium in it? Is it synthetic? No clue, but there you are. If you want to, you can find out simply by searching for that information… Formally referred to as “googling it”, which is another non scientific, meaningless term. I’ve gone back to “searching the web” because Google is now an evil company.
NPR has a whole dedicated show on the various terms people use for gasoline around the country from what I recall, but I don’t have a link to it. It’s fascinating.
Big beautiful coal will save us.
C’mon! Letter go to Walmart!
C’mon! Go get the latest gadget at Wallgreens!
This photo by the way is just awesome.
This photo is fake. It is likely AI slop. The story is still true though and there are real photos. His, the wrester’s, name is Adrian Street.
Like a real life Zoolander
But a good one.
Cleeeeeen coal
And somehow, Europe pays much more for gas because of an american war.
You pay more at the pump, but we likely pay as much, just through constant oil subsidies. Without those, we’d be paying more per gallon at the pump. This way, even those who don’t drive still pay for oil! Capitalism!
This way, even those who don’t drive still pay for oil! Capitalism!
Yet when we suggest doing the same for healthcare it’s “socialism” and a bad thing
In Europe, the price is mostly paid by the consumer. In America, the government subsidizes the industry to the tune of billions per year, both at the federal and state levels. It makes gullible people think American fuel prices are lower, when in fact it socializes the cost of fuel onto all of society.
Counterpoint: I live in Europe and pay €0 for gas. I walk, bike, and take transit. That’s literally impossible in much of the US.
The trucks that bring your food to within walking distance use a fair bit of if fuel.
A lot less on a per capita served basis than it would take to drive all those people that are served by the truck to the place where the food comes from and back again
Most delivery trucks around here are electric. Most power generation is renewable, importing some nuclear. Some fossil fuels still in the mix, but if the government was smart they would phase it out.
2€ per litre for diesel here in France.
I fill up like 4 times a year though so personally I’m surviving, and it seems Van der Leyen & Co are pushing hard for EU energy independence helped by this, so that’s quite cool IMO.
4x a year? When work is busy, I might fill up four times in a week.
Ouch! We’re around $3.90 by my me. We were at $2.75 on the day the war started.
Thanks, Trump. We won’t forget.
My trick is syphoning from large trucks with Trump stickers. That’s socialism.
There’s only like 5 of those in this area (Seattle). The rest are Cyber trucks.
Look up gas prices in Europe and you’ll feel better. Be aware prices are in liters, not gallons and the Euro is worth more than the dollar. E.g. today in Germany in my region 2.27 Euro for a liter.
£1.40 a litre in the UK at the moment.
I think the difference here is that we aren’t fooled by right wing politicians who blame prices on their left wing counterparts.
Trump made petrol prices and inflation a key policy issue that he alone could fix. And now its worse.
Although the fact that he could be brought down by petrol prices and not him being a demented war-mongering kiddy fiddler is deeply saddening.
People don’t see him diddling kids. They do see the number on the gas pump though.
We’ve passed €2.5/l in Denmark. I suspect we’ll hit the infamous 20 DKK/l next week. I think it was during the full-scale invasion that gas stations rushed to replace their price counters since they could only go up to 19.99 and now we’re about to hit those prices twice in less than 5 years.
If my math is right, that comes out to roughly $10 USD per gallon. Ouch.
Most places in the world don’t subsidize oil and gas to this degree at national and state levels. USA is one of the outliers
If you’re using public transport in USA, you’re paying for the toll free Highway roads and subsidized fuel. In other countries the toll and high taxes ensure you pay for what you use.
Hello fellow Washingtonian.
Sincerely, the moths flying out of my wallet
You know, Moss and pine cones burn pretty good. If only one could frack that stuff cleanly.
Ahh yes! How could I forget! Singas that’s popular in Mexico. They use trash and corn I think.
To be honest, I always found that to be extremely interesting. Not very practical, but extremely interesting.
Oh nevermind, looks like Mexico is gonna Cuba soon:
Isn’t there like an additional 30 cent tax that Washingtonians voter for?
At least fuel is a lot harder to hoard than TP.
may i interest you in slightly sketchy development called using propane as fuel, it’s a fair bit cheaper
i read this neat thing about using biowaste to generate your own propane. with these plans i found there’s only like a 15% risk of blowing yourself up and that’s IF you have recent hazardous materials handling training (which i don’t, so like let’s up that to 45% for me) and they advise having a fair bit of land to build a small swamp on for some weird reason, but i can send you some diagrams if y’all want.
you can just pull up to gas station and fill dedicated lpg container which you get along with lpg conversion kit, no need to diy it
also that’s methane and it’s best to use up biogas immediately, there are small powerplants like this here and there, near landfills for example
I wish it was that dirt cheap here in Europe.
They’re technically paying about the same rate now. Gasoline is subsidized via taxes by the government in the USA. So Americans still pay for it, many just don’t know it. Even if you don’t use a car.
I dunno about Philip but Josh should be here soon
damn i paid just a dime under that about a day south of you last week (SF Bay Area, Costco, low to upper $5s for the prices across my city) and i could have sworn we had it bad.
I actually could bike 1hr to work and 1hr back. But with the helium industry fucked up and gasoline thru the roof, I think the business will be going under soon. I’ll take on carpentry and work from my basement.
Look at Mr fancy pants obey here with a basement 😆
Rusty Cage on YouTube has a guide on how to build a lemonade stand.
