• Hawke@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Who the fuck buys gas multiple times a week??

    I buy gas about once a month, maybe twice if I go on a trip.

    I’d be happiest if gas was $10/gal or more, maybe it would rip this fucking driving fetish out of some folks minds.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      13 days ago

      If you drive every day, you’re probably going to buy gas at least twice a week, especially if you don’t like being too low. Plus, traffic is terrible where I live, and you burn a LOT of gas just sitting.

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        Most vehicles have a fuel tank capacity to give about 300-400 miles range.

        Who is driving 600-800 miles every week? That is insane.

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          13 days ago

          A lot of people. Especially those who have to do gig work to make ends meet.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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          13 days ago

          It’s common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.

          I live at the southern tip of my population area. It’s 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.

          If you own a home, and you get a new job that’s in the same region, but even farther away, you don’t buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.

          Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that’s why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.

          And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.