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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 4 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 · 4 days ago
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Isolated outages of diesel have been reported on social media.
  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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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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        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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        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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        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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