When you hear a rant about how fuel is so expensive now, remember this...

[True Dough]

[RockRaven]

1. There's another group of gas price complainers I'm all out of patience with: the

"I've got a 60-80 mile commute (each way) because I could afford a much bigger/better house in city X than I could in city Y"

Yeah, housing prices in the Bay Area, LA, and many other places are ridiculous. But so are some people's judgements about how much house/yard they need to be happy, and how much time they're willing to spend in their car every weekday (which is time they can't spend in the house in question, btw). People can waste their time however they like, but spare me the complaints about how expensive your chosen time wasting is becoming.

The local paper had a man-on-the-street type of anecdote in their gas price article this morning. I nearly rolled my eyes out of my head when, after complaining that the rising gas prices were going to wipe out the raise he recently got, the guy revealed he had a 150 mile round trip daily commute and drove a newish vehicle which got 15-20 mpg.

Ya makes your choices and ya takes your chances. When you purposely increase your exposure to the price volatility of a commodity, bad episodes get worse.

[Deuxcents]

2. Yep

[calimary]

3. Indeed. Then why move so far away from your work?

What's wrong with being a little more practical? I remember that when we moved, my parents found my school first. THEN, after that part was settled, they started looking for a house. A house near the school.

[JI7]

9. I think most of those people have electric vehicles

[RockRaven]

12. Nah, the people living closer to where they work are also the ones with the electric vehicles...

Either because they're rich enough to not mind paying more for their housing, or because they prioritize lower emissions.

[AllyCat]

4. That is totally different.

That is gas AND coal.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. ive seen pictures of steam train engines with cleaner exhausts than that ididot.

the the heavy black smoke that u see sometimes in pix is for the railfans or they are working hard .

[canetoad]

7. Loathsome

That is all.

[stollen]

8. In Germany it's $10/gallon

converted from liters

[Celerity]

11. I don't see this there, more like $8.35 to 8.40 or so per US gallon for Benzin 95 (normal petrol)

https://de.fuelo.net/ (great site)

Sweden (we live in Stockholm) and Germany are usually very close in price, and that is around what it is here too.

[stollen]

13. Super Plus

[Celerity]

14. sorry, do not see anything near that either

here is the price the day (March 7th) you made the 10 usd per US gallon claim



2.162 € per litre

converting to USD per US gallon

3.78541 litres per US gallon, so

8.184 € per US gallon

which is $8.90 per US gallon, at current Euro to USD FOREX

[roamer65]

10. $1 a quart is cheap.

I’m not bitching.

It’s cheap here by world standards and the US dollar only has 1/10th of its 1965 purchasing power.