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Gasoline is $5. Diesel is $7.
Per gallon? Holy shit, no wonder everyone buys gas guzzlers over there. Germany is paying nine plus dollar per gallon for gasoline.
Its not hit $5/gallon once where I am at in rural Illinois. When I filled up a few days ago itnwas $4.09 I think. I mostlynremeber because I had used some Kroger points that made it $3.09 ($1 off).
Though I don't think I have ever had enough points to get a dollar off before, usually ita at most 20 cents.
3 ish bucks of what you pay a gallon is tax that goes to infustructure, in the US depending on the state we pay like maybe 20 cents a gallon in tax. Even California which has the highest gas tax it's only 76 cents
Where are you getting it that cheap?
Those prices are actually well above the national averages: https://gasprices.aaa.com/
But below what you pay in California now
Interesting perhaps, but a bit of a non sequitur.