• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    $3.99 for E0 gas is a fucking steal. Normally you pay more for E0, this is below the country average right now.

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          4 months ago

          Yeah - prices vary a lot. Especially with state gas taxes. Texas hasn’t increased its tax on gas in over 30 years, for instance. As a percentage, they’re barely a quarter today what they were when I was first driving.

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    4 months ago

    I spent 2k to replace the radiator in my hybrid just before this started, mofo’s gonna pay for itself

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    4 months ago

    Gas Price per Gallon atm in Austria: 8 Dollar

    Befor this Bullshit it was at around 4,50 Dollar

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    4 months ago

    Unleaded 88, wtf ? Does the US have gasoline with such a low octane ? or is it the price in inch pounds per linear whatsadoodle ?

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      4 months ago

      The US uses a slightly different Octane rating system that averages slightly lower than the more common RON. The system they use averages RON with MON which is measured under different engine conditions. The pump is labeled with (R+M)/2 to indicate this in the image. According to Wikipedia, 88 is equivalent to 95 RON.

      No idea why they feel the need to be different.

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        4 months ago

        I still don’t understand, can you compare that to something completely arbitrary like bourbon, Coke or football ovals?

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    4 months ago

    Sad thing is he absolutely did do that. Unlike Biden who was blamed for the chaos that came from the pandemic.

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      4 months ago

      *war in Ukraine

      Edit: You people are insane with these downvotes. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Look at a graph of gas prices and see what happened right after that. The war in Ukraine was directly responsible for the gas price spike in 2022

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        4 months ago

        Both, supply issues causes by economy restarting from covid as well as was in Ukraine that putin started.

        Ironically that also supposed to be very quick as the one with Iran.

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          4 months ago

          The sudden spike in prices that immediately followed Russia invading Ukraine had almost nothing to do with the economy

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            4 months ago

            I didn’t down vote you but, want to address your edit. You are absolutely right that war in Ukraine contributed to the price. And you are right that this spike had not much to do with the economy, but keep in mind that the restrictions were lifted I think in February as well pretty much simultaneously in all countries.

            During restrictions people traveled less, so the demand for oil was lower, so in 2020 oil fields reduced output.

            Now restrictions were lifted so demand increased, sanctions on Russia were imposed so demand on Persian Gulf also increased.

            It takes few months to restart production from oil wells that were shut down, and then there’s also few weeks delay as the tankers are transporting the oil.

            I think both contributed to the spike.

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      Well, Biden did blow up a pipe line that supplied Russian gas to Europe. He also did nothing to improve the horrible situation in Venezuela that Trump started. He actually just doubled down on it.

      Not on the level of what Trump has done. But every US president is consistently working to ensure US oligarchs have control of the oil supply. And that doesn’t always mean literally stealing oil. It’s more about control.

      Sometimes that brings domestic gas prices down. Sometimes it makes them go up. Sometimes that means blowing up pipelines. Sometimes that means kidnapping a countries elected leader.

      The president WANTS domestic gas prices to be low. It helps their approval ratings and party elections. But, the president is subject to the wishes of the oil and war oligarchs. And they are fucking thirsty right now.

      Edit: I’ve broken through with a positive upvote (for now) making a comment about Democrats and Bidens failures to combat Trump. I have faith in you Lemmy.

      Edit2: Had to brag. Reminded people to downvote.

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        The price spike under Biden was more the orange kid-diddler’s doing. Threatening to without military funding for Saudi Arabi unless they cut down on oil output during COVID. Which when supply chains were firing back up under Biden they had t ramped production back up yet. Biden got blamed for some he had nothing to do with. Aka the repugnican method.

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          Bidens biggest failures were not undoing a lot of the things Trump did in his first term.

          I think it was a false belief in that the US should remain consistent and not back peddle on bad policies. So, instead of working with Iran to restore the JCPoA (that they continued to abide by via the UN) he continued to push sanctions. Similar situation with Venezuela. Hell, he even kept a lot of Trump’s awful border policy. He absolutely failed in restoring faith in America, on the world stage, after Trump’s first term. He needed to push hard in the opposite direction and have actual material changes that Trump (or any Republican) could not undo again.

          Now, one could say this is because they didn’t think they would lose again to Trump. But, that, in itself, was also a major failure for Biden/Harris. They had no major material improvements to point to as an achievement.

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      See comment by Random Stickman, different standard systems give different octane numbers for the same fuel. Edit: according to the Wikipedia chart, the RON of that “Regular Unleaded” would be 91-92. That 87 on the pump is the RON minus the MON, divided by 2 to give the AKI.

      The RON of US Premium is 96-98, is that closer to your European number?

      Here’s the explanatory link they posted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

      As for prices, I live in California where Regular is currently $6.50 near me. Some of the difference from OP’s prices is state and local taxes that go towards things that benefit me, some is because our gas has to be formulated to reduce smog. Which also benefits me.

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      4 months ago

      Good job vandalizing the gas station of someone that just trying to run a business and has to clean up after your safe rebellion. You’re really sticking it to the man there.

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          4 months ago

          Yes. It’s all vandalism. It doesn’t matter whose face is on the sticker.

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        4 months ago

        They could just leave it there as it’s not hurting their business and is also true.

        And remember, property destruction as a form of protest has a long a storied history that generally works far more effectively than marches or rallies and is part of the escalation of the protest process if The People are ignored. It gets far worse so they should take it seriously and listen/act on the concerns of the protestors. They wouldn’t like what comes next.