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US average fuel price passes $4 a gallon for first time in four years amid Iran war (www.theguardian.com)

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National average hit $4.02, according to AAA data, capping an extraordinary rise from $2.98 just a month ago

Average US fuel prices have crossed $4 a gallon for the first time in four years, piling pressure on drivers as Donald Trump’s war on Iran continues to boost oil markets.

The nationwide average climbed to almost $4.02 on Tuesday, according to AAA data, capping an extraordinary rise from $2.98 just a month ago. The fuel price last reached this high in August 2022.

On the west coast, many drivers filling up cars and trucks are grappling with prices far higher than the US average. In California, the average is $5.89 a gallon; in Washington state, the average is $5.35.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Think about this for one second. The fact that people have to spend an extra dollar per gallon of gas and it is that impactful to their finances should be the bigger story. How fucked are most people they can’t absorb an extra $50 or so per month for gas increases?

It’s not the gas prices, it’s how strapped the American people are. That’s the story.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Nearly $7 here in Washington state

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

And this is 100% on Donvict.

Any "i did that!" stickers are entirely appropriate in this case....get ready for buttmad donvict dead-enders...

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

These fucks will complain about it but never blame trump. They're incapable.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He's just breaking our dependence on oil, he's a green party infiltrator.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If we look at the long term effect, assuming the United States is still standing, yeah probably. If we look at his intentions, lol couldn't be more opposed to reduced reliance on oil

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Except donnie dumbass has been waging war on EV, solar, and wind, too.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Yeah but sending the world into a global recession... all because its reliance on oil... only really says hey maybe this whole oil thing is stupid to the normal people of the world...

We can get basically free energy from the sun and other technologies? Why are we doing this again...

But then I remember covid... and yeah people are just dumb

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Yo dawg we are winning so hard bro I hope we keep winning and win harder!!!

[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 42 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Where are the "I did that" Trump stickers?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

My FIL has been putting them up all over. He also uses super glue to affix them.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I love this.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 7 hours ago

He puts them on the back of road signs too. It's great.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

someone will have to remove it, regardless of their political opinions, and it won't be the president

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Well, they don't have to remove them.

Also, lots of redcap dumbasses will get to LOOK at them first. :)

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

working on it

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They passed out a ton of them at the No Kings protest in San Diego. I only took one, after the first, I told the people that I have an ebike and an EV, so I haven't been to the pump in years.

I would assume they were mass distributed, just like the 3D printed whistles they were handing out.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

put it next to some really terrible graffiti like a snake that's drawn drawn all crooked

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Quick someone find the sticker

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

In four years? What happened before four years ago??? What changed in that time in-between???!!! Must have been the Olympics.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

2022 when the Russia hit the fan in Ukraine

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Last thing you should be worried about as America massacres children, keep showing this but keep in mind how low in priority it is.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 13 hours ago

This is how you get the masses to actually care about something.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Still ⅔ of the price of gas in Sweden. 🙃 Leasing an EV via work feels pretty safe right now.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 10 hours ago

no I would drink the gas instead

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Oh no the poor Americans, how will they survive paying slightly above a third what we pay here? Denmark and I suppose most of Europe, except the countries where it's more expensive and Americans pay less than a third.
USA is an immoral country, that has failed to tax fossil fuels since the 70's to limit the use of them.
Americans should be ashamed of themselves for the level of CO2 per capita USA is producing. Which is twice than what it is for EU and China.

I hope a lot of Americans fail payments on their gas guzzling SUV over this.

[–] kjetil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I chuckled a bit when seeing this headline. "Really? 4usd per usg? So cheap. That's what all this fuel crisis is about?"

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 30 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

In the US gas companies are subsidized to keep prices down. We pay in tax dollars in other ways, whether we drive or not. This impacts regular gas, but also groceries and other goods traveling across the country bigger than the entirety of Europe.

Also outside of a few cities, there's very little public transit.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Part of the reason that there's little public transport is that gas is subsidized

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 18 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Not really. If gas subsidies stopped, public transit isn't going to just pop up. It would require a complete overhaul of the entire geographic placement of buildings and zoning rules.

Trillions of dollars over many years would have to be spent to make the US like the EU. Not just on infrastructure but also on businesses. There'd have to be incentives to open a grocery store in walking distance when box stores still exist. Thousands of people would be required to open a small business or manage a store.

In reality, if gas subsidies stopped the cost of everything would just increase astronomically. The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It's too far gone.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. Doesn't matter what you do to gas, the US seems to hate public transportation. We each need our own bus to drive around. It's infuriating. I would love to take public transportation. But it simply doesn't exist in most of this country. We have to have a vehicle to get around, and I'm sick of it.

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

I reslly like that framing device, "we each need our own bus to drive around", going to adopt that line in my arguments against car brained people

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It's too far gone.

This is misinformation. US cities were built with extensive streetcar networks, so much so that the first suburbs were called "streetcar suburbs." They were ripped out because of the misguided notion that they needed to be profitable (a double standard that only applied to rails and not roads, BTW).

They also had vibrant, dense, walkable downtowns, which were demolished circa the 1970s to "make room" for parking lots for car commuters.

Do not try to pretend that that was inevitable or irreparable, because it's not. European cities, like Amsterdam, were also demolished in the middle of the 20^th^ century, and guess what, they were rebuilt for the car too! But unlike us, the folks in the Netherlands realized their mistake and demolished and rebuilt again to put back the the infrastructure you see there today.

We can fix car dependency.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 4 points 20 hours ago

Im not saying turning them off would suddenly create a walkable paradise. But they do continue to create inertia from pushing for change.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

bigger than the entirety of Europe.

That's completely irrelevant, yet Americans keep using that argument.
USA consist of 50 states, the distance of transport is determined by whether it's profitable, with higher gas prices, the longer transportation would increase prices on groceries from further away, and stimulate more local production.
Building more train transportation would also lower CO2, but USA is doing none of the things that could help.
In Europe Sweden has probably the longest transports in Europe, yet their CO2 is almost half (3.43) the average of EU (6.276), with USA (21.03) at more than triple the EU average!!

Europe has worked way harder than USA since the 70's to reduce unsustainable use of fossil fuels, the enormous difference now is because of half a century of failed policies of USA to do the same.
For instance on solar USA has less than EU, despite USA has way better conditions for solar than EU has.

Why are Americans keeping making excuses for the inexcusable?
USA is a shit country endangering the entire globe with their irresponsible CO2 emissions.

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

Its easy to not be car centric when you have proper public transportation infrastructure and multiple countries are within 30 minutes of driving to one another. Here some people drive 2 hours everyday just to get to work.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

This. It's not like the individuals often have much of a choice. If you want to eat, you need a job. If you want a job, you typically need a car.

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Americans should be ashamed of themselves for the level of CO2 per capita USA is producing. Which is twice than what it is for EU and China.

It is nearly tripple that of the EU. The gap is growing in both directions by the way.

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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 16 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Meanwhile the UK at $7.10 per US gallon

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

This is how much it is about in my state in the US

[–] remon@ani.social 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

$10.37 in Switzerland.

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

$ 10,17 / US gallon in the Netherlands (€ 2,336 / L)

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Just filled our diesel for 2,38 €/litre somewhere in Finland.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

that last time was a pretty short spike to when nobody knew what would happen and just a lot of reactionary things with covid. this is much more like the iraq war thing.

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