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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Some gas stations "out of diesel" as prices surge

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Some gas stations "out of diesel" as prices surge

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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Isolated outages of diesel have been reported on social media.
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    The gas stations probably need to install new signs that will display four digits so they can charge over $10 per gallon

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      Nah. They’ll just do what the rest of the world does, and start charging per litre. Your 12.399/g is now only 3.109/L.

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        Friend, I don’t think you understand just how much we hate the metric system. We’d stop driving before we measured fuel in liters.

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          It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)
          But… yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.

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            It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)> Dollars and cents!

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            It’s also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959.

            International Yard and Pound

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound

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          The temporary solution in 1980s Germany, when prices climbed over 1 DM/l, was to charge per 0.5 l. So they might charge per 0.5 gal now.

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            they might charge per 0.5 gal now.

            Please, please, please. Per pottle. Of course.

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              Oh sorry. Of course. Please forgive my ignorance. I wasn’t aware of that.

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          Lol!! I use metric daily, and I’m 100% with you on this hahahaha

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          But you will start selling in quarts.

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        Lol… Would be quite funny if this is how US changes to metric system

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      You just put a 1 to the left of the sign.

      Surely you will never need any other numbers there.

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        Surely not. Nope, they’ll never need more than 3 digits…. Wait, what’s that?

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      Getting there for sure. $8.something a gallon for diesel around here.

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        It’s $7.50+ here in Eastern Washington. I drove to Idaho for the slightly better rate and still cost almost $200 to fill up my truck. I’m ever so thankful that I have kept it in good running condition and basically bulletproofed the 7.3l engine. I got 18.5 mpg and that’s really good. But still, I don’t think I can keep it up for long. It’s a damn shame.

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      I would have at least hoped they’d take the opportunity to get rid of the asinine 1/10¢, but apparently not!

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