TheWorstMailman,

This is some boomer nonsense. I can’t find 2 sources that seem to agree on specific numbers, but several sources, and my personal experience, agree that gas prices peaked in 2008 after the one two punch of Katrina and the housing market collapse

I started driving in 2006 and bought my first car in 2008 and I can confidently say that I’m paying less for gas now than I was when I started driving and I’m not even talking about adjusting for inflation. Are prices too high? Yeah, probably. But this “then vs now” shit just ain’t true

sherlockholmez,

Mfw other contries exist

TheWorstMailman, (edited )

Fair. But isn’t complaining about gas prices America’s largest export?

Just checked some other countries and it seems like Canada is the only one that breaks this general pattern, though it’s obviously not rigorous research

Edit: Also, I don’t really care. I was just venting some frustration to The Internet

Ephera,

You’ve got some of the cheapest gas prices in the US, so I’m not sure anyone needs to import your complaints…

For reference, here in Germany, it currently costs around 1.70€ per liter, which is $6.97 per gallon.

kusivittula,

finland checking in at 1,9 €/L. which isn’t even that bad, half a year ago it was 2,3. that’s $9.43 per gallon.

spicytuna62, (edited )
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The fed subsidizes the shit out of our fuel because the car industry is lobbying it to because the car industry knows that if Americans pay what the rest of the modern world does for gas, then chugga chugga choo choo motherfuckers, we’re finally building some goddamned trains.

That, or they won’t get to sell their huge, overly marked up trucks to middle class suburbanites anymore.

Either of those things would be good for everyone.

I’d also support regulation that bans modifying the ride height of a vehicle. All bumpers should align as a factory spec. We made 70s cars ugly because they required 5 mph bumpers, but we won’t tell Cletus he can’t make his truck bumper sit at neck level so that he doesn’t wipe out a family of four in a Toyota Corolla when he blows through a red light? Horseshit.

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