US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods
https://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87
https://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87
30 Comments
Atropos@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d
Goods? Expensive
Workers rights? Removed
Environment? Fucked
Libs? Owned
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d
Everyone owned. FIFY
huppakee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Trump made a few hundred million with insider trading so not literally everyone.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1d
Boots? Licked
Salvo@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 1d
Datacentres run on diesel generators when the grid cannot provide enough power.
This is why diesel is so expensive.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 1d
Also. Also the war and insider trading - you know the regular capitalism stuff.
Salvo@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1d
There is nothing “regular” about the current unregulated capitalism going on in the US at the moment.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1d
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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 1d
"...for a long list of goods."
You mean like anything that traveled a mile on a truck?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 23h
Or was planted/harvested by a tractor.
victorz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
$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.
victorz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Ah, I went by the image. Okay, $5.85 is still about ¾ of the price. 😄
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Hasn't been that cheap in months in California. Diesel has been $7 a gallon since February
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
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.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
How long is your commute
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23h
20 min bike ride. Also I don't use gasoline or diesel, I have an EV.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
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?
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.
victorz@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 14h
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. 😆
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 7 pts · 1d
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.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1d
Winning looks so good
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 5 pts · 1d
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...
foggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Their goal is to make life nearly unlivable by elections so they can do something drastic.
Zomg@piefed.world · 4 pts · 1d
I'm sure plenty of diesel users in America voted for trump, so fuck em
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10h
Too bad the train infrastructure in the USA is so abysmal.
funkreddit@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
6.29 here
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 0 pts · 1d
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
huppakee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
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.
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 1 pts · 1d
Turns out I can't count 😭
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
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.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1d
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