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US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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ShellMonkey piefed.socdojo.com ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com
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Make all the things great, price tags, national debt, his book of crimes and general assholery is great enough to be split into volumes by now...

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funkreddit lemmy.zip funkreddit@lemmy.zip
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6.29 here

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BCsven lemmy.ca BCsven@lemmy.ca
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Winning looks so good

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Atropos lemmy.world Atropos@lemmy.world
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Goods? Expensive

Workers rights? Removed

Environment? Fucked

Libs? Owned

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MrSulu lemmy.ml MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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Just as Chris Wright, Secretary for Energy says that all we need to do is drive less.......

https://www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-labor-day-iran-war-driving-chris-wright-energy-2026-9

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jaschen306 sh.itjust.works jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-09
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Goods? Expensive Workers rights? Removed Environment? Fucked Libs? Owned

Everyone owned. FIFY

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Matt The Horwood lemmy.horwood.cloud mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud
Joined: 2023-07-27
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6.29 here

That's nothing, a gallon here would be $31. However in the bland UK, we use litres. Our price is about £1.90 a litre for diesel

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Salvo aussie.zone Salvo@aussie.zone
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Datacentres run on diesel generators when the grid cannot provide enough power.

This is why diesel is so expensive.

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JamesBoeing737MAX sopuli.xyz JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz
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Datacentres run on diesel generators when the grid cannot provide enough power. This is why diesel is so expensive.

Also. Also the war and insider trading - you know the regular capitalism stuff.

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Salvo aussie.zone Salvo@aussie.zone
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Also. Also the war and insider trading - you know the regular capitalism stuff.

There is nothing “regular” about the current unregulated capitalism going on in the US at the moment.

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Scrubbles poptalk.scrubbles.tech scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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Which could have been mitigated if the big railroad monopolies had electrified their rail like other large freight railroads but noooo no investment only squeezing profits.

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Typotyper sh.itjust.works Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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There is nothing “regular” about the current unregulated capitalism going on in the US at the moment.

So the shitty trading and deals are your pet peeve but not the attack on foreign oil producers.

The great pumpkin SANK 3 tankers last week. Not hijacked or shot at. But sank. Huge ecological disasters. This is all voluntary.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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$4.43 per gallon is still only ⅔ of the price as in Northern Europe right now lol. But I guess we're better off to pay for it? Less dependent on it? I dunno. I have an EV so it's whatever for me, personally.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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$4.43 per gallon is still only ⅔ of the price as in Northern Europe right now lol. But I guess we're better off to pay for it? Less dependent on it? I dunno. I have an EV so it's whatever for me, personally.

Ah, I went by the image. Okay, $5.85 is still about ¾ of the price. 😄

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
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Everyone owned. FIFY

Trump made a few hundred million with insider trading so not literally everyone.

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Zomg piefed.world Zomg@piefed.world
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I'm sure plenty of diesel users in America voted for trump, so fuck em

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
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That's nothing, a gallon here would be $31. However in the bland UK, we use litres. Our price is about £1.90 a litre for diesel

1.9 x 3.8 (litre to gallon) x 1,35 (gbp to usd) = $9,75. Still a lot more, but not as high as $31.

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foggy lemmy.world foggy@lemmy.world
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Their goal is to make life nearly unlivable by elections so they can do something drastic.

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SaharaMaleikuhm feddit.org SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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Goods? Expensive Workers rights? Removed Environment? Fucked Libs? Owned

Boots? Licked

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Matt The Horwood lemmy.horwood.cloud mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud
Joined: 2023-07-27
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1.9 x 3.8 (litre to gallon) x 1,35 (gbp to usd) = $9,75. Still a lot more, but not as high as $31.

Turns out I can't count 😭

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AngryCommieKender lemmy.world AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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Ah, I went by the image. Okay, $5.85 is still about ¾ of the price. 😄

Hasn't been that cheap in months in California. Diesel has been $7 a gallon since February

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Earthwormjim91 lemmy.world Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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That's nothing, a gallon here would be $31. However in the bland UK, we use litres. Our price is about £1.90 a litre for diesel

What math are you using lmao.

The Pound is not that much more than the Dollar (£1 is $1.35), and a liter is not that much smaller than a gallon (1 gallon is 3.79 liter).

1 US gallon in the UK would be £7.20 which is $9.73

To be the equivalent of $31 per gallon, it would need to be £6.05 per liter.

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BarneyPiccolo lemmy.today BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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"...for a long list of goods."

You mean like anything that traveled a mile on a truck?

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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Hasn't been that cheap in months in California. Diesel has been $7 a gallon since February

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.

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CADmonkey lemmy.world CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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"...for a long list of goods." You mean like anything that traveled a mile on a truck?

Or was planted/harvested by a tractor.

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CADmonkey lemmy.world CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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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

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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How long is your commute

20 min bike ride. Also I don't use gasoline or diesel, I have an EV.

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CADmonkey lemmy.world CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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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?

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.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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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? 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.

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. 😆

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nosuchanon lemmy.world nosuchanon@lemmy.world
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Too bad the train infrastructure in the USA is so abysmal.

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