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I never expected to see $10/gallon
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Now you know why gasoline is sold by the liter in Europe: you can multiply the price another 3.5x.
$10 / gal is quite typical in Europe.
Welcome to the reality of fossil fuel scarcity and the consequences of stupid wars. It's high time Americans felt what happens when they do stupid shit in a world of dwindling cheap energy resources.
Amusingly it's a different gallon in the UK, while it's mostly obsolete it's the volume of ten pounds of water or about 4.5 litres.
Fuel has been sold by the litre for many years, but it was deemed too expensive to send someone round changing all the road signs to km/h and kilometres. Fair enough in my view but we then made the absolutely daft decision to keep measure fuel efficiency in miles to the gallon, not miles to the litre or even litres / 100 miles. Confusing to Britons who don't use gallons for anything else, confusing to other Europeans who've been entirely metric for generations, and confusing to Americans who use a different gallon.
This will be the tipping point that causes the US to switch to metric.
It isnt, most european countries usually have much lower prices. Even with the current situation the median is arround 8usd/gallon.
You must live where it's cheaper. I gassed up this morning in Scandinavia and it was over 2.4€ per liter for diesel.
I just saw €2,56 diesel on my way home today. (For the americans, that'd be around $11,2 per us gallon.
Which is only 8.4€ per galloun.
Where is it $10 per galloun in Europe?
Your math is off though.
€2.40 per Liter is actually €9.08 per gallon, which would be $10.47 per gallon US.
There’s 3.785L to a gallon. 2.40x3.785 is 9.08.
In France I'm seeing 2.1€ per liter of 95-E10
Which is why I, as a Norwegian, have never looked back after switching to a BEV
Well, it's not really an option for me: I don't drive nearly enough in a year for the expense to make financial sense, and I don't want a modern car with all the surveillance equipment built in. I fill up maybe 3 or 4 times a year, but that doesn't mean I don't feel the pain when I do 🙂