sanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoUS diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goodsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down11
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minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoStill less than 75 % of the maximum price of gasoline here during the pandemic in combination with the Ukraine war. 😅 Diesel is $8.30/gallon here now.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months ago20 min bike ride. Also I don’t use gasoline or diesel, I have an EV.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSo your commute is a fraction of a commute in the US. Here it might be a 30-45 minute ride in a car. One way. Do you see why $5 fuel would be a much larger problem here? I have an EV Good for you. So do I. Everything you own and eat involves a diesel engine somewhere. That is the real problem. People with EV’s have to eat still.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months ago So your commute is a fraction of a commute in the US. lol what. My commute is that long. Lots of people have longer commutes than 30–45 minutes here too. I’m one person. An anecdote. 😆
Still less than 75 % of the maximum price of gasoline here during the pandemic in combination with the Ukraine war. 😅
Diesel is $8.30/gallon here now.
How long is your commute
20 min bike ride. Also I don’t use gasoline or diesel, I have an EV.
So your commute is a fraction of a commute in the US.
Here it might be a 30-45 minute ride in a car. One way. Do you see why $5 fuel would be a much larger problem here?
Good for you. So do I.
Everything you own and eat involves a diesel engine somewhere. That is the real problem. People with EV’s have to eat still.
lol what. My commute is that long. Lots of people have longer commutes than 30–45 minutes here too. I’m one person. An anecdote. 😆