Dang the summer blend fuel is gonna be north of $6 gallon then.
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BUT I THIUGHT BUDEN DID THAT?!?!’mj
This is just the beginning. We are all paying Netanyahu's war tax.
Nobody forced the whole west to support israel
The Media: "Dear Leader gets tough with Iran! Victory is coming. But first the latest Taylor Swift news, and MARCH MADNESS!"
Profit margins must be maintained.
Pretty glad I drive an electric car right now.
Only half joking, but all of the new data centers raising energy prices are unfortunately coming for you too. Still way cheaper than the gas equivalent though.
Jokes on you, I've got an electric car and solar panels. Fuck the grid!
Man I wish I could do that, but I'd be fucked come winter.
I currently have a fixed price deal. The price is not ideal, but it's bearable year-round and I don't use that much electricity in the summer when the market rate is cheaper.
If I had solar panels and wanted it to be connected to the grid (so I wouldn't have to run them on a separate circuit and could also sell back the excess), I'd be forced to the market rate package. Which in the winter can get ridiculously expensive. And it's not like there's a lot of sunshine here in the winter. 6 hours from sunrise to sunset and it's cloudy most days - and if it's not cloudy, it gets super cold and electricity demand goes up even more.
Our household has solar panels, two EVs, and a heat pump located in the Midwest. We still have 1:1 net metering so its nearly the ideal conditions as far as energy harvest and economic landscape. I know this won't last, but I'm enjoying for the years that I can.
We also have a separate deductive meter where we can get about 25% discount on electricity that charges the cars. We only use it during the cold months because car electricity is free during the rest of the year from solar.
We have a small electricity bill in November, then big beefy electricity bills and for when the our location on Earth its tilted away the sun for the very cold months of Dec Jan, and Feb. March we get a bill but its about 1/10 of the cold months, and then usually electric bill until November again.
With the installation of our heat pump we cut off our natural gas connection. So the only energy bill we have is electricity during the cold months. No natural gas bill, no gasoline bill.
Hot damn I wish I could do that. We recently had our first semi serious look into solar for our place. Maybe someday.
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What does the truck that delivers your food run on?
No idea, but I feel it a lot more when commuting goes up 50% than when food goes up 20%.
Also, if I can have just one of those, instead of both, why wouldn’t I want that??
You're still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.
You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.
Also, Californians pay 3x the national average for electricity too.
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Us$5 a gallon? That's almost Canadian prices. Just a little higher and that's our day-to-day.
US gallon is 3.8 litres. Before Iran, we were paying $CDN 4.70, or $US3.10.
Now it's $CDN5.70, or $US3.76.
US$5 would be CDN$1.75 a liter.
So no. Why are Canadians so stupid about gas prices?
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Ha. Try 2.40/litre ($11/gallon) in Norway.
US gallon is 3.78L. $9/gallon.
Ah, you're right. My goodness, couldn't the Americans even agree with the rest of the world on make-believe silly-units?
"While we can agree that a gallon should be the nice, round sum of 32 gills, I find it ludicrous that you define it as five fluid ounces. I'm putting my foot down. In the United States, it will be the much more manageable four ounces, which will be a different size to your ounces. Nyyyaanyyaanyanyanyaaa!"
You haven't had decades of anti-public-transit propaganda in Norway, I bet.
Don't need the propaganda, we just need a completely Oslo-centric government that will happily spend money on public transit, as long as it's in Oslo. Pretty much all the governments have been like that for most of my life.
True, but density, public transportation, social services, and electrification are very different in much of the US. Fuel prices hit differently depending on where you live in the world.
Fuel prices hit hard of you're a Norwegian living outside of the cities (which is the majority of Norwegians). You really need to have a car in the countryside, as both buses and trains are few and far between. There's still plenty of fossil-fueled vehicles out here. People keep them because they either can't afford to make the jump over to electric, don't trust the EV's to handle winter well enough, or because they're worried about the technological hurdle (Norway is an aging population).
True. Almost all new vehicles are EVs, but 70% of the existing vehicles on the road are ICE. Super impressive, but that tank of fuel is extra painful if you’re in the countryside.
Maybe the US needs $11/gallon as medicine.
My hope is that the price of fuel goes so crazy that people can't afford to drive to work, causing a general strike.
Yeah probably
True, our fuel prices are way higher here in Europe, but we have a solid public transportation network, we have walkable cities and in countries like Norway the EVs are the majority.
From everything I've seen about US cities and American friends I talk to, for most people, if you don't have a car you can't get to work. That is a thought that is hard to process for Europeans.
If you don't have a car you can't get to work
This is it. This is the difference. Along with everything being spread out, and fuel efficient cars being a distinct minority. "Just ride a bike" is something I'd love to do, but I'd get killed by some monster-fueled purposefully stupid prick in a truck. And that person might get a ticket. The very idea of taking a bus or train to work is pure fantasy where I live.
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Allowing for currency conversion it's USD8.23 / gallon here in Victoria, Australia.
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Something you may have glossed over if you don’t live in California: March is when the state begins to the switch to “Summer-blend” (a mix of spealized petroleum with 10.5% to 15% ethanol) which is required to be available by April 1 and until October 31. The price of gas was going to increase regardless.
That is a brutal price to see. Wow.
Give it a couple days, its $5....so far....
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