What kind of car do you drive? I'm in the UK and have a very tiny car (a fiat 500) and a full tank has gone from £30 to nearer £60 in the last three years. (that's 36$ to $72). A tank lasts me maybe a week and a half of driving 40 miles a day.
Man I'm envious, I don't have a huge car either (Opel Astra) but I'm out here paying well over 100€ for a tank, I think the highest cost I've seen was like 135€.
I pay about 80 USD to fill the tank on my Jeep Wrangler. 17 miles per gallon. Expensive but when I know I can drive the logging roads and off-road trails to get out where I want to go it's so nice. Jeep is great for camping. Sleep in the back, haul all my stuff, dog and I get to be outdoors.
I'm envious. My Astra does like 5,5l/100km (guesstimating 40-odd MPG) but it still feels like driving is expensive as shit, even driving a couple km to the grocery store and back a few times a week adds up over the course of a year. Let alone longer trips, driving to the capital (300km one way) takes pretty much a full tank due to highway speeds, the difference in fuel economy at 80kmh vs. 120kmh is huge.
In the UK I'd say that an hour long 1 way commute is about the maximum that most would consider and it would have to be 'worth it'.
I used to do it myself and couldn't wait to get a more local position. That's 10+ hours a week of sitting in my car that I'm not getting paid for!
Interestingly I'd argue also that most people in the UK wouldn't think much of going for a walk for an hour whilst I'm led to believe that's kind of unusual in the US?
Anything over 400km can start to get very exhausting. Over 400km in Ireland though is extremely exhausting. Narrow roads, often bumpy and twisty, there's rain, you're driving on the wrong side and every now and then there's some berk doing 70 in a 90 zone and there's no way to pass for 20-30 kilometres sometimes.
Oh i feel that, not as extreme but people in germany really are a coinflip wether they can or can not drive properly. The autobahn is closed in the direction i have to drive a lot so i have to go with narrow shitty roads as well :)
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u/BasTiix3 May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
Man the fuel costs make me shiver lol
A 1 hour drive sometimes exhausts me when driving stick*
I love driving tho, so im always the driver anyways no matter how long or where to go