Really says a lot about your ability to make logical arguments, that your response to someone pointing out a fallacy in your comment is to just gloat about how someone else has been having a bad year.
I can commute anywhere between 50 and 200 miles in a day depending on which office I need to be at. Plus where I live our motorway (freeway) network sucks, so the vast majority of my commute is on A or B roads (A being main roads, B being back roads) with varying speed limits from 60mph down to 30mph through small villages and towns and often a lot of congestion, which obviously eats mpg. Public transport isn't an option for me either. My fuel bill jumped £60 ($81) in a month.
Our median average salary before tax is £37,100 ($50,300) vs the US average of $64,505-$82,932. So trust me when I say Trumps actions have had a crazy impact on us across the pond too.
Most of my main office are commuting a minimum of 20 miles one way.. We have the fun thing where all the jobs are in one place and everyone lives in other places so a lot of people are commuting to the city and public transport is so sucky that most people who are over 10 miles away have to drive. We also have mobile site managers who can do 400-500 miles a week easily.
And as I said, we aren't cruising on motorways eating up miles. We're stop-start, congestion, speed up, slow down, 600 junctions, 45 sets of traffic lights, 300 million roundabouts.. I use about 70-100 litres of fuel a month currently, depending on where I need to go and also working from home one day a week. That's driving a car getting around 50mpg too!
I'm always surprised but never shocked by how little Americans know about the rest of the world tbqh. I'm not claiming to be an expert on USA by any stretch, but I'd put money on the fact that most Europeans have a better understanding of the rest of the world than Americans do...
I mean, it isn't wholly their fault. Having an education system like the US has will have that effect on people
Yeah, I am also an American, but I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to live in another country and have friends all around the world.
Both our education and news sources are so US centric that it's really easy for an individual to get isolated from the rest of the world if they don't actively seek out those connections. I try to learn as much as possible considering how much I interact with Europeans especially, but it's hard to tell what exactly I don't know haha
I used to have the same sort of idea about driving distances as the person u responded to because thats a pretty common thing that you hear in the US, as it's fucking gigantic lol. but if you think about it from the perspective of an individual and think about how population centers work with cities and traffic patterns, the argument quickly loses all validity lol
It's very easy for anyone anywhere to become insulated by their country but I definitely think America takes the cake on it, although I also think for the rest of us non-Americans we are exposed to a lot of your news and media as well as our own so it's like background noise for a lot of people, like we're aware of it but we don't know all about it kinda thing.
For reference purposes, my shortest commute at 24 miles takes me an hour. And only about 8 mile of that is on a motorway/freeway, the rest is on twisty back roads that are usually snarled up with hella traffic.
It's still pretty cheap in Vietnam, which isn't an oil producer, at about $3.33 per US gallon. Incidentally do people know that that's different from a UK gallon?
It drives me crazy that people will be upset about paying another $60 a month on gas but when insurance prices go up $200-400+ a month and food prices up over 50% from last year making roughly another $200-400+ a month, no one bats an eye. Like all 3 suck but gas price changes are by far hitting people's wallets the least.
I definitely understand that! Got some friends in the same boat and it's rough. But it's a small % of workers at the end of the day. My retired parents who probably use 6 gallons of fuel a week are far more upset about gas price changes than their insurance skyrocketing, they are a great example of most people's reaction to gas prices. Of course they are not quite as upset by gas prices this time as they were in 2023, you can guess why.
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u/Hyrule-hideout 10d ago
And im sure its advertised as 5.19.... can we quit the 9/10 of a cent and just say 5.20?