I don't have any context for whether this is expensive or not, but....
You're charged LESS for fuel if you let them wash your car? ...what?
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The car wash is an additional cost not listed.
The gas station has far higher marginal profit on a car wash than on gas. Also, most of the time you don't even break even on the supposed savings.
It's a trick to get people to spend more money in a way that is more advantageous for the gas station owner.
because the other two comments didn't make it entirely clear if you have no idea what this is about: the pump will ask you if you want to buy a car wash ticket as well. if you say yes, you get the lower fuel price
I love to see it because all the idiots in their gas guzzling, coal rolling trucks get hit way harder than I do.
Yeah, same here honestly
Lol
Finally, Americans see what Europeans live with.
Enjoy your Kia Piccantos 🤣
We can’t even do that…
This is kind of the problem. Most small cars aren’t even sold here. For another example, Ford sells the Mustang. Everything else is trucks, SUV’s, and commercial vans.
But soon you can buy a Xeinpeng Mighty Seagull with Android Prune Candy dispenser!
Don't they do a 1.6l Mustang these days?
Maybe in other countries but in the US the smallest displacement Mustang is a turbo 2.3L four cylinder.
Enjoy your Kia Piccantos
Americans will eat from dumpsters before they give up their V8 pickups.
My v8 pickup shuts four of it's cylinders off when it's not under load, but I still drive my EV to work.
If my conversion is correct, that would be aprox 1.45euro/L for Reguolar. Super close to prior-to-iran-war prices but would love to see them pay 2.50.
For US netizens, again if I am converting the right way, 2.50eur/L of Regular would be around $11 per gallon.
Who is paying 2.50 a litre for fuel?
That's insane.
The pump close by at the highway is at €2,579/liter here in The Netherlands.
Wow. That's alot. But Netherlands is so expensive. I love the country but it's unreal how much you guys pay for stuff.
Where I am at right now, 1L of Super E10/95 octane is 2.10euro while Diesel can go as high as 2.29. Outside of the city I have seen 2.29 for Super E10/95 octane.
Not 2.50 yet, and probably will go down since, allegedly, Iran/USA bombing is done for now. But I cant pass over the fact that it got from 1.60 to 2.20 in a span of one month. Fucking happy my car has 1.2L engine.
We are still at €1.50 here - feeling Lucky.
wow, that's actually more than here in Ontario after converting currency and volume units. $2.30 vs $1.60 when I filled up on the weekend
still quite cheap in the grand scheme of things for what it is
Where are my buddies: coal rollers? What happened to them?
Parked at home :)
619 dollars for one oil? I'm guessing it's 6.19/l (or maybe even gallon? Who knows with these) but wow these are awkward to read.
Gas prices in the US are in $/gal, so $6.19 per gallon. Some signs just don't include the decimal.
I understand your confusion... I went to Canada for the first time recently and their prices are cents per liter, but (much like American prices) that's not actually indicated anywhere.
But you can drive many football stadions with that much oil
they didn't bother with the decimal point just in case.
I buy my gas at Donny's Discount gas. 619 8/10ths
The period used to be permanent but then they had double digit gas so they had to remove it.
I always pump for 20 Swiss francs so i dont care.
Until ur car runs out of gas one time when driving to work, cos 20 bucks doesn't give u enough gas anymore to drive this far.
Oh, I wish we could have that cheap gas here, you lucky bastards.
We are currently dealing with 10 dollars the gallon in Europe so you have a little bit still to go. I can't imagine the mess this is making in countries that do not have the US or EU purchasing power.
Edit: disregard my math, I've rounded a gallon to 3 litters because I'm not familiar with freedom units.
Which country? I've checked the historical average in Spain and Gasoil was the most expensive with a 2€/l, gasoline 1.8€/l (tax included), the max I've personally seen is 1.78, in a rather expensive chain (Repsol)
Of course average means there will be a +-0.2€/l depending on the station.
It would seem that particular station is/was more expensive than most of the ones in Spain ever were.
Very volatile situation, but hopefully will lead to a reduction of reliance on Fossils (including Trump) in the near future.
1.8€/L is 8$/Gal for anyone wanting to convert back.
I looked it up and a gallon is 3,785 Liters. In France gazoil is 2.3€ in the Netherlands 2.6€ for example. The Eu average I can find is 2.115€ for gazoil and 1.880€ for SP95. So on average for the EU it is 8.01€ per gallon and 7,12€.
So than convert it to Dollars. Some countries (NL, DE, DK) are even aproaching the 10€ the gallon which is nealy 12$ the gallon.
Let me know when gas gets to $6.70
For context: San Jose is also in one of the least affordable regions in the country. It’s the largest city in the Bay Area with the best weather.
Oh no, americans have still cheap gas because their pedo leader needs to bomb children. I feel so bad.
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