• Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    With all the plants overgrowing atop the sign, it looks like a picture from the post apocalypse, where the gas prices were obscene during end times.

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s Catalina. It’s a little over half that off the island.

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        5 months ago

        i’d love for gas to be as cheap here as in the picture. it rarely is. greetings from finland!

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        5 months ago

        It’s $4.09 14 minutes from me according to the gas buddy and where I live the gas is more on the expensive side.

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      5 months ago

      Also since it’s Catalina, no offense but where are you going in a car? Everything in Avalon is basically right there. Aren’t all the vehicles on the island supposed to be under a certain size (and presumably have pretty good fuel efficiency) too? I haven’t been to Two Harbors so I can’t speak on the need for a car there.

      • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        $7.35/gallon is €1.79/liter, which based on this page with data from a bit over a week ago is about middle of the pack, but pretty cheap if you’re just counting the richer countries that are probably more comparable to California in particular.

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        5 months ago

        In the UK I’m paying about £1.41 to £1.45 per litre. I’m no good at maths sorry, you’ll have to do the calculations.

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          5 months ago

          £1.45 per litre translates to $7.03 per gallon. So I would say the claim that prices are comparable to European ones is spot on.

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          5 months ago

          That’s about $6.85/gallon then, ouch. At least you have functional public transit overall unlike California.

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      5 months ago

      Ffs don’t tell them that. They’re already flocking to NC in droves. They leave because they don’t like California and proceed to turn anywhere they go into California. If anything, THATS where we need a fucking wall.

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    5 months ago

    It’s an island of 4200 people about 20-30 miles from docks in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.