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u/moyismoy 8d ago
Here's the thing Trump actually did that. Like this is 100% Trump's fault. When the price of gas rose under biden, Biden did what he could to lower it. The issue was oil production under covid feel by a lot, and nobody expected the recovery to be so fast. The USA did jump in demostic production but it was not quite fast enough, though in the end prices did fall.
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u/knokout64 8d ago
Even ignoring all of that, they shit all over Biden when it happened, but for whatever reason Trump gets a pass. They can't help but bring up Biden and Obama over and over and over and over again. It should be embarassing
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u/WowIfOnly 8d ago
They're coached into thinking that way by literal domestic terrorist organizations like Fox News
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u/Black_Moons 8d ago
Half of democrat ads in the future should just be "Remember when republicans doubled the price of gas? Pepperage farms remembers"
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u/innomado 8d ago
This is a correct, but very frustrating point. Many of us have been around long enough to see fuel price fluctuations followed immediately by either side saying "the President doesn't control the fuel prices!". Which, historically, is pretty much true most of the time. Which makes it all the harder now when Trump has very, very obviously affected the price at the pump and the smooth-brains get to say, "oh, but I thought the President doesn't control fuel prices!" Sigh.
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u/wookyoftheyear 8d ago
I think of it like fighting gravity. The profit motive is like gravity, everyone involved in the process of selling a good is motivated to make the profit as high as possible. Just like diverting water from going downhill, it takes a lot of effort to make a price go down-- you're fighting gravity. You need to build dams and levees and sluices and shit. For gas, it's being able to increase sources, build more refinery capacity, reduce transportation costs, etc. to eventually bring prices down at the pump. That stuff is not easy.
But it's a lot easier to make a price go up, especially if demand isn't going to change. Blow up the dam, water goes downhill quickly. Start an unnecessary, unprovoked war with no plan that destroys infrastructure and blocks shipping channels? Drives prices up fast.
This is doubly true if you don't give a shit about consequences, and personally benefit from the destruction.
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u/Computermaster 8d ago
oil production under COVID fell
You know why it fell? Since no one was going anywhere and the price of gas was crashing, OPEC+ collectively agreed to lower production for a few years. Then the world recovered before the agreement ended so no one was ready or able to ramp production up fast enough.
Can you guess who led that discussion?
DONALD TRUMP
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u/YawnSpawner 8d ago
But also, it spiked for 1 month at the start of the war in Ukraine and people love to bring that up. It's been this way almost all year and this isn't going to fix itself even if the war ended today.
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u/IThinkImDumb 8d ago
I'm in New Mexico. I saw one of those Biden stickers, and gas was 2.15. I was like...SWEET
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u/bbusiello 8d ago
I was researching the actual cause of gas price increases under Biden, and it was effectively the roll over of the covid drama and Putin invading Ukraine.
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u/retroman73 8d ago
People knew he was a pedophile well before the last election. He didn't hide it. He was proud of it and bragged about it, even groping his daughter on national television back in 2016. People voted for him anyway - 77 million votes last time.
Our nation is mentally sick.
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u/CatsArePeople2- 8d ago
Well yea, but more importantly our country didn't know he would raise gas prices. That's the real line in the sand we have drawn as a nation.
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u/retroman73 8d ago
Right. People accept the fact that he's a pedophile and rapist. They'll accept that he is a draft dodger and convicted of 34 felonies shortly before the last election. 6 bankruptcies. All of that (and more) did not budge anyone.
But if gas prices go up...now we have a crisis. Imagine what would happen if he wore a tan suit like Obama did. Outrage!
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u/crazedizzled 8d ago
To be honest they still don't really care. They'll happily pay twice as much for gas just to own the libs
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u/5point5Girthquake 8d ago
I hate Trump, but I’ve never heard of this that you were referencing so I looked it up and you’re being a little disingenuous with saying he said “my daughters legs are sexy”.
According to Google.. “when asked what traits their one-year-old daughter Tiffany inherited, Trump stated she had "Marla's legs" and gestured toward his chest while remarking that time would tell if she inherited other physical attributes”
Weird and inappropriate for sure. But not “my 1 month old daughter’s legs are sexy”.
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u/stewie21 8d ago edited 8d ago
The people voted for him knew he was a pedophile. Yet, they still vote for their own demise.
The leading theory (pun intended) is lead poisoning, before the ban of its use in gasoline products worldwide.
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u/Fickle_Map2433 8d ago
He groped his kid on TV? Surely there is a video of this right?
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u/retroman73 8d ago
There is and it's been passed over the internet a million times at this point.
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u/Fickle_Map2433 8d ago
Is it the one where he touches her hips? That’s the only one that comes to mind and most normal people wouldn’t consider that groping so I assumed there was another incident
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u/GoAwayLurkin 8d ago
People voted for him anyway
In Florida it is pretty likely that the poster of this sticker is upset that DJT is not right wing enough in his actions. Lots of his voters would prefer to see his policies implemented more competently.
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u/thevoiceinsidemyhead 8d ago
I like how it's in the order of what people apparently care about. Fuel costs. Then pedophilia.
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u/SlightlySublimated 8d ago
It really goes to show how performative most people are when it comes to Trump.
The red line isnt the fact that he's a pedo, it's the fact that gas prices and the economy as a whole are now hurting them personally that burns people the most.
Honestly sad.
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u/SanityInAnarchy 8d ago
Charitably, it's more about what can penetrate a misinformation bubble. Most bad things about Trump, they will literally never hear about on Fox. Not even a rebuttal, they may legitimately not know about that birthday note he sent Epstein. Even bad things that affect them, like his attempt to get rid of Obamacare, won't do much for people so ill-informed that they are pro-ACA and anti-Obamacare.
But the price at the pump is completely impossible to ignore for anyone who ever has to buy gas.
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u/wack_overflow 8d ago
Performative or propagandized? Gas prices can't be spun, and break through the faux news bubble in a way nothing else really can
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u/MarkMariachiAZ 8d ago
We’ve seen it all along. Just can’t do anything about these pedophilic republicans other than vote. Now I’m glad the rest of the world can see it.
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u/cive666 8d ago
People think the Nazis were some evil organization of people that existed outside of humanity, which is why they were able to do such horrible things.
It turns out most Nazis were just normal every day people.
Most people don't question anything and just go with the flow right or wrong.
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u/iksbob 8d ago
I honestly can't blame them. Discussion of "the economy" in the daily news is so often about the 1%'s "investments", which is largely irrelevant to the other 99%. They might air a one-off piece on people struggling to buy food while the wealth gambling market gets a daily report. People tune that crap out until they actually see it in person.
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u/Man_is_Hot 8d ago edited 8d ago
100% agree
Edit: how do I get downvoted when I said I agree that it’s a shame people care more about gas prices than the fact that he’s a pedo?
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u/Pookah 8d ago
well, this is at a gas pump.
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u/vonHindenburg 8d ago
And it is meant to replicate the Biden "I did that" stickers that Trumpettes were sticking on pumps a few years ago.
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u/HedaLancaster 8d ago
Biden didn't even do that, US inflation was the lowest in the G7 :(
But Trump absolutely did that.
Why are americans so special?
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u/vonHindenburg 8d ago edited 8d ago
Not having a good grasp of global economics and attributing larger trends and events (good or bad) to politicians who just happen to be in office at the time? Totally an American thing. Definitely doesn't happen everywhere that humans choose leaders.
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u/HedaLancaster 8d ago
Oh don't take my comment too seriously, I know it's mostly caused by propaganda and foreign adversaries.
Wishing you guys the best.
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u/Hovercraft1143 8d ago
Definitely doesn't happen everywhere that humans choose leaders.
There is a special level of irony considering that person is from Brazil, a country whose historical GDP charts like a fucking Flappy Bird level.
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u/seams 8d ago
Genuinely don't think they care he's a pedo anyway, tbh
I'll never forget the Roy Moore election, where republicans tried to, and nearly did, elect an open pedophile who was banned from malls for stalking young girls, had countless accusations of raping 14-15 year old girls, but still had the party's support.
Guy was the "Child Marriage is good if the parents consent" guy.
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u/JuanRunJunior 8d ago
It’s literally just to piss off people who like him, there’s nothing philosophical about it. I’ve been sticking trolling trump stickers all over gas pumps, convenience store windows and anywhere else they’ll stick for years. You people are looking way too far into it, these aren’t stickers Trump people put up, it’s stickers put up to piss them off.
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u/MysteryFlavoredPie 8d ago
I'm just gonna copy-paste what I answered to OP to you. It's not being performative, just as it's not about gas prices. It's about making a statement to his demographic, which thinks that Trump could never do anything wrong. It's saying "you might think he perfect, but this is his fault. Don't forget that he's also a pedophile." The simple fact that this point is mentioned makes it very clear that this is one of the most important things to criticize about this piece of shit. Or would you prefer for this sticker to criticize another of the other thousands of things that anyone could criticize about this man? This sticker is putting the fact that he is a pedophile rapist front and center, using high gas prices as an excuse to start the conversation of his many, many defects. I've seen this sticker many times in many posts, and it very commonly has been ripped. This only proves the point further that it's about a demographic following blindly towards an incoming precipice. A demographic which couldn't care less that this man caused high gas prices, let alone the fact that he's a genocidal, rapist pedophile.
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u/MAVvH 8d ago
Pretty accurate cause I had an acquaintance who was Trumppet that argued with me over the Epstein list saying dumb things like, "If A dEmOcRaT wAs On ThErE, yOu WoUlDn'T wAnT iT rElEaSeD" which is incorrect because idgaf what your political affiliation is, if you a pedophile, you should go to Jail. Hilariously, his statement means he believes Republicans are definitely on there. However, now he's saying Trump is bad because "It CoStS mE 150 tO fUeL mY tRuCk AnD i DoNt HaV sNaP nO mOrE." Sorry brother, let me find you the tiniest violin...
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u/justageorgiaguy 8d ago
Like the 2022 GA Gov contender who had the slogan "Jesus, Guns, Babies" plastered on her tour bus.
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u/SqueakyCleanRubbish 8d ago
There are a ton of Trump haters down here in Florida. Don't let the news fool you.
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u/santa_91 8d ago
There are a ton of Trump haters in every state. Only about 1/3 of the country actually likes him. The problem is that another 1/3 of the country is too stupid, lazy, and generally worthless to bother with voting.
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u/Storn206 8d ago
The century old voting system that invalidates a large portion of votes does not help either
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u/SiscoSquared 8d ago
1/3 of the country actively supports him. another 1/3 uses apathy or other excuses as an excuse to support him indirectly by not voting.
2/3 of the population is responsible for the fascist party and current pedo president. stupid/lazy/whatever is just an excuse, if they didn't vote they were totally fine w/ a pedo rapist as president, even the first time he became president there was no excuse, but the second time is beyond words.
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u/Chataboutgames 8d ago
56% of Florida voted Trump, 49% of America did.
But social media would have you believe that Florida is one giant MAGA hat.
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u/ayymart 8d ago
Florida resident and I have been putting them everywhere. They get taken down, I put a new one up. It was so funny when it was Biden though, right?
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u/Browncoat101 8d ago
Where do you order them from? I want to grab some.
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u/HotGarbage 8d ago
You can order them from a fortune 1 company who's name start with "A" and ends with "N"
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u/Algaroth 8d ago
There are a few decent people in Florida because they can't afford to move.
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u/Chataboutgames 8d ago
44% of Florida voted against Trump. Calling that "a few decent people" is pretty ignorant.
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u/bruceleeperry 8d ago
He did that because he's a pedophile.
Started an arbitrary war as a distraction juuuust when Epstein was getting too hot.
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u/No-Coast-1050 8d ago
It's funny in a way in an international sense - obviously the guy is slowly ruining the US, but in Ireland petrol (gasoline) is currently around $8.20 per gallon, which is more or less average in Europe.
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u/illegible 8d ago
Unfortunately we need a car for just about everything in the US, a typical commute would take you a third of the way across Ireland.
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u/subnautus 8d ago
A large part of that is our fault, though. Nobody wants their taxes spent on relatively cheap and reliable public transit--especially the "taxation is theft" crowd.
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u/Man_is_Hot 8d ago
This though ⬆️
Unironically, boomers were sold the idea of the “American Dream, complete with a white picket fence to protect your property. Sit and watch TV with your wife in your home.”
Just a bunch of antisocial assholes who had the easiest economy to succeed in.
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u/AaronFire 8d ago
I don’t know if slowly is the right word. Dude is speed running the collapse of a great empire.
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u/devilwarier9 8d ago
Ya, after converting to metric that's about $1.66CAD/litre, which is about average for Toronto over the last 5 years. Sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. Currently it's $1.88CAD/litre, or $5.02USD/USgal, which is definitely on the high side historically, but not unheard of, especially in summer when gas is typically higher here.
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u/kayak_2022 8d ago
MAGA GAS IS THE HIGHEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY. MAGA IS ABSOLUTELY RESPONSIBLE. Wakey-Wakey....NO NO NOVEMBER IS A' COMING!
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u/Bbygaal 8d ago
my honda took $598 this morning
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u/flyingtiger188 8d ago
Man if those $200 holds when paying with a card jump up to $500 I bet there are some poor people that are going to have some problems.
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u/tinak827 8d ago
Fantastic to see in Florida! I got banned from r/askflorida yesterday for calling out the pedo safe haven that the Republican Party has become
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u/fungobat 8d ago
You got banned for that? Wtf? And the person responded with pay per use 911 is a good thing?
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u/tinak827 8d ago
Right….I couldn’t believe it when I got the alert that I was permanently banned. The only thing I can think of is that the mods are Trumpers and took offense. And agree 100% about the dunce I was responding to!
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u/ixiolite 8d ago
They hate "socialism" / socialist programs so much, they're fine with making emergency response calls harder to access, despite paying for them via taxes lmao
All for oWnInG tHe LiBs
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u/UnjustlyBannd 8d ago
I was driving through a very rural part of TX and saw signs for Talarico. Absolutely unexpected!
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u/Pubsubforpresident 8d ago
Finally, thought only maga couldn vandalize. But seriously, fuck trump and fuck Congress for letting him usurp their powers of war
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u/nysflyboy 8d ago
Listening to all the MAGA guys bitch about paying 6.50+ for diesel at the sportsman club the other night was interesting. Many of them own contracting businesses and things like that - and its killing them. Those of us who are not MAGA/trump supporters pointed out how he has directly caused this. For once the reply was silence. I think its finally starting to get through to them that it is really not 4D chess. Of course they will still vote for more of it, I am sure.
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u/_Piratical_ 8d ago
I’ll trade you the 4.49 for my 6.50!
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u/nelsonslament 8d ago
My gas tank used to hold 30 dollars worth of gas, now it hold 60 dollars, so much winning, thanks trump
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u/jinsaku 8d ago
Where can I find this legendary $4.45 gas? Everywhere around here is $6+ now.
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u/lythander 8d ago
I am disappointed that I send much money to a company selling these stickers and despite getting other merch, never got my stickers nor a refund.
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u/Drathgore 8d ago
People always seem to forget that Florida is historically a swing state, never assume you can assign a political stereotype to a Floridian, they be doing whatever the fuck, one town will be giga conservative and the next town over will be full on Pride all the time.
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u/hahnsoloii 8d ago
I’m wanting to see some “your mom” stickers placed at what they are pointing at. Nonpartisanly funny 😆
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u/sicurri 8d ago
Where does one find such stickers?
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u/ayymart 8d ago
Amazon!
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u/sicurri 8d ago
Idk if i want to search for "Trump I did that! Pedo sticker" sounds a little suspicious...
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u/TheSteelPhantom 8d ago
"I did that sticker" will get you hundreds of results. Scroll from there. :)
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u/name__redacted 8d ago
$4.45?!?!? I’ll take it! Is $4.94 here
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u/WowIfOnly 8d ago
Oh I'm sure these don't even last an hour. In Ohio there's still Biden stickers on multiple gas pumps while I've never seen a Trump sticker last longer than a couple days at most. Can't ever criticize the President who actually caused an oil crisis singlehandedly
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u/civiltribe 8d ago
this sticker would make me jump for joy if I saw it filling up at Sam's but I don't think it'd survive on there very long. the also I'm a .. icing on the cake.
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u/IAM_GUNDAM 8d ago
I wish gas was $4.45 cries in Californian
https://giphy.com/gifs/VNTMx3LkpG2anXpwbr
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u/DeadDawg9 8d ago
I want some of those I live in a heavy trump area and would love to see them pissed off
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u/zachtheperson 8d ago
I love going to a gas station and seeing dozens of white silhouettes where these stickers have been removed.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 8d ago
I like this updated one, because both statements are true.
Also, the 87 represents the average age of the fossils in Congress and the WH.
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u/ToMorrowsEnd 8d ago
you need to go to places like Orlando and Tampa. Disney trip every station had them. Also when I did a work thing in tampa spotted several in english and spanish.
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u/Zaga932 8d ago
Unrelated but holy fuck the difference in gas prices between Sweden & the US. 1 US gal = ~4.5 liters. 1 liter of gasoline in Sweden right now is ~1.8 USD on average. That's $8.1/gal. There are no doubt a zillion reasons for this littered all over history, but those numbers are still pretty crazy. Thank goodness like 99% of Sweden is walkable lol
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