• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    Sleepy Joe Biden did this!!!

    Even though he isn’t the president!!!

    He still did it because he is wearing a skin suit of Trump!!!

    Wake up Sheeple!!!

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      13 hours ago

      i mean, he did have access to the files, and he could have used it to have mango mussolini arrested but instead he handed the keys to the country and the nuclear codes to a man he himself called a fascist. so yes, Joe is indeed responsible for the situation the world is in. just because all republicans support pedophilia doesn’t mean Dems don’t help them.

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        Fuck Trump but Biden insisted on handing the US to fascists on a silver platter so I kind of hate him more even though he is less evil, at the very least I hope he knows deep down as he goes into the end of his life that he threw the futures of younger americans away with his grovelling, useless corporate centrism that could not see past the status quo. I hope that makes his last moments feel panicked and lonely.

        Oh yeah and Biden is a Zionist, for which he can burn in hell for enabling the Palestinian Genocide.

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      20 hours ago

      I actually saw $6.08 at my neighborhood gas station a few days ago. Been driving a Leaf since 2013 tho. <gloat>

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          13 hours ago

          A friend of mine loves his Volt. My wife and I just bought a 2023 Kia Niro. Feels a lot like a Leaf but with vastly longer range.

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        19 hours ago

        I could <gloat>? about something too but then someone else could top my gloat and then someone else would top it maybe let’s just not …gloat

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      18 hours ago

      FWIW, I learned to drive when it was ~$0.95/gal, and lived in the UK ~'05, so I feel keenly that a fairer comparison might be each region’s % of prol take-home avg that’s leeched by fuel costs. Is there an acronym for that?

      Let’s say that these two nations’ Unit Price and MPG/KPL avgs are:

      • US: $4.32/g | 26 mpg
      • UK: £1.59/L | 36 kpl

      Also, the nat’l avgs of “median wage worker” incomes are:

      • US: $50,153 (£37,276.47)
      • UK: £32,236 ($43,369.83)

      The fuel cost/yr as % of gross earnings, and minutes-of-work per fill unit would look like:

      • US: 2.12% | 7.4 mins/g (1.95/L) up 28% since 2019
      • UK: 1.01% | 4.5 mins/L (17.2/g) down 7% since 2019 (income rose 31%)

      Now, for some of us, the slice off the year’s top is image enough, but that "minutes of work per gallon/liter* punches low. 🤌🏼

      If you find yourself with a surplus of joy and need it gone, run your own numbers for minutes per gallon/liter * (2*commute fuel usage) = minutes paid to earn the rest. 😅

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      1 day ago

      According to the RAC it was earlier than 2010. But then I don’t get a lifetime of medical debt if I get injured so at least at have that going for us. Currently.

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      Never really bothered to do the conversions but now I’ve just realised how cheap gasoline was in the US. The cheapest I remember seeing pump prices in the uk was in late 90s where it was £0.65/L, which would make it around £2.46/gallon and therefore $4.15/gallon given the apparent exchange rate at the time.

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        In the late 90s (or maybe 2000) in the US Midwest, I remember paying $0.79 a gallon, or $0.21/L. With the exchange rate then, it works out to £0.13/L. So yeah, it was cheap. I filled my 15 gallon tank for the cost of 2 hours at my just above minimum wage job.

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      18 hours ago

      I recently bought petrol at $1.49AUD/L, which is roughly 75p and easily the cheapest I’ve bought it since the 90s.

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      17 hours ago
      • Buy all your gas from Russia

      • Get into a proxy war with Russia

      • Blow up the pipeline they use to sell you their oil

      • ???

      • Reform UK wins the next election

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      15 hours ago

      Damn. They got them prices represented with exponents now. Those must be the Europe prices. /s

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        13 hours ago

        9.15 USD per Liter seems unreasonable. That is roughly 461 cups per camel.

        Source:

        • 1 US Cup is 0.236588L
        • 1 Camel costs roughly 1kUSD (the cheap work camels)
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    21 hours ago

    There are two things Americans love the most: boasting how much democracy and freedom they have, and waiting for some misterious “them” to do something.

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      15 hours ago

      It sure never gets fucking old pointing out to you stupid dense fucks that the first group is the ones who voted in the tangerine menace and that the ones here aren’t those people, but ya sure keep asking us to die for your petrol prices or some shit

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        1 hour ago

        I’m glad we had enough freedom and democracy to vote for the candidate who had vastly less backing from corporations and billionaires. Proof that we still are a democracy and not just money that wins elections.

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        5 hours ago

        “Boo hoo, we didn’t vote, they elected a bad king for us, and now people on the internet ask us to do something about it. Can’t you see, they don’t let me to do anything, I’m just a small bean, boo hoo”.
        Hey, buddy, pick a line. Either you’re small bean who can’t do shit about fuck, in which case shut your face up and don’t lash out, or you’re strong capable American with pride and agency, in which case suck it up and go firebomb a whitehouse or some shit. Or do something more useful, up to you

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    1 day ago

    y’all are paying more than Canadians. last night it was $1.55/L

    damn you’re winning hard

    also, fuel in Canada should still be more expensive.

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      23 hours ago

      £1.92 a litre for diesel at my local petrol station the last time I went.
      A quick currency check says that’s 3.54 Canadian dollars.

      All because an orange child rapist is trying to distract everyone from all those decades of raping little girls.

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    13 hours ago

    Wrong, because you wouldn’t start a revolution. But hey, yo are no communists or anarchists right? Why fight when you can complain and pay 5 per gallon.

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      With current exchange rates, that’s 1.09 € per litre. In Germany we pay 1.90 € per litre ( for the cheap stuff). So in Germany it is ~9.60$ per gallon.

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        I’m not being shitty, but a real question. Do you have your own oil wells? We not only have our own oil, but we frack the shit out of our earth.

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          And it is not enough. To even begin to account for the externalized damages due to the total emissions car based transport, taxes need to be way higher still.

          Of course americans - land of the externalized costs - never gave a shit about that, and never will.

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    1 day ago

    It was down to $3.89 when I filled up yesterday.

    it was at a club store gas station, so I’m not sure how much they are actively suppressing the price to keep people spending in the store. Elsewhere I was seeing from around 4.29 to 4.50 on Saturday in PA.