But have you ever considered just how enormously underpriced it is knowing what it's capable of? befuddlement
35kg (76lb) of gasoline (equally to 12 gallons, the average tank size) can propel a 1500kg vehicle (average car mass, not including the added mass of human passengers, luggage, and the fuel itself) for ~300 miles (480km) at 60+ mph, nonstop
1500kg is over 43x the mass of a full tank
This incredible feat can be achieved by virtually anyone for about $36, as of today's national average gas prices. To us this is unreasonably high. SocksDood;
Is there a more (non-nuclear) energy-dense substance known to man? Let alone one that's remotely as cheap as oil is? akudood;
and it's even crazier to think about just how spoiled we are when you consider that after oil is combusted, it's permanently destroyed and irreplaceable
our finite supply of oil is so underappreciated
we really do take it for granted lol
itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are
Yeah plus compared to a number of other places in the world we have it really easy for affording fuel.
most peeps got no idea the unbelievable feats of engineering they participate in everyday, from cars to roads to buildings etc etc. human ingenuity is genuinely amazing if you stop to think about what we have now and how fast we got it
Fucking magnets how do they work?
well you guys can pay the higher prices lol
Every once in a while I'll think about how all the gas around here has an extra 9/10ths of a cent added onto the price, and I wonder if I'm getting cheated out of some change eventually
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on June 04, 2018, 05:07:08 AM
itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are
when you drink/bathe/cook/wash/sanitize with recycled waste water.
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on June 04, 2018, 05:07:08 AM
itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are
bananas and other """tropical""" fruits befuddlement
i took a shit today, when you think about it thats fucking amazing
Quote from: SVT on June 04, 2018, 06:26:43 PM
well you guys can pay the higher prices lol
that would only be
encouraging our haphazard use of it >.<
really, the most ethical and prudent thing i could do with petroleum for the future of mankind is simply steal and stow away as much of it as i can
Quote from: Thyme on June 04, 2018, 08:21:36 PM
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on June 04, 2018, 05:07:08 AM
itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are
bananas and other """tropical""" fruits befuddlement
srsly
the mass availability of pineapples in particular is nothing short of miraculous
a pineapple plant takes
two years to bear
one fruit and then immediately
diesthey were at one point so uncommon and so notoriously dificult to cultivate that
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple#HistoryBecause of the expense of direct import and the enormous cost in equipment and labour required to grow them in a temperate climate, using hothouses called "pineries", pineapples soon became a symbol of wealth. They were initially used mainly for display at dinner parties, rather than being eaten, and were used again and again until they began to rot.
now they're available from pole to freezing pole, sometimes year-round, for about $2 each SocksDood;
I got gas.....
[spoiler]by which I mean farts [/spoiler]
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on June 05, 2018, 08:59:21 PM
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple#Historylabour
awdood;
im so blaZd
Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 05, 2018, 08:51:38 PM
Quote from: SVT on June 04, 2018, 06:26:43 PM
well you guys can pay the higher prices lol
that would only be encouraging our haphazard use of it >.<
really, the most ethical and prudent thing i could do with petroleum for the future of mankind is simply steal and stow away as much of it as i can
you can do that
I don't know that I've mentioned this before but my dad is a truck driver in the oil field and when gas is low, he doesn't work
so
yeee
>gas is now <$2/gallon
doodthing;
saw it for as little as $1.84 yesterday lol
on the one hand, okay cool because fuck; the kkkremlin and fuck; the house of saud nyandood;
on the other hand, now the market price of oil is even more absurdly incongruent with the reality of its true value than it has been since, like, the bush era smithicide;
even at $4/gallon, gas is severely underpriced
even at $8/gallon, gas is severely underpriced
oil is practically invaluable and painfully finite and we just gleefully irreversibly burn it for such frivolous reasons >.<
gas is like $2.40 here, before all this it was like $2.60 maybe
My dad is about to get laid off.
What now.
what y'all payin' these days
I paid $5.50/gallon yesterday. It cost me over $80 to fill a 16 gallon tank. smithicide;
yet even at these prices this miraculous resource remains tremendously undervalued
Quote from: Magyarorszag on June 15, 2022, 12:00:27 PMyet even at these prices this miraculous resource remains tremendously undervalued
good things we're boys with the saudis
here it's $5.75-$5.85
prob $6 in the city though
Quote from: Mando Pandango on June 15, 2022, 12:44:40 PMQuote from: Magyarorszag on June 15, 2022, 12:00:27 PMyet even at these prices this miraculous resource remains tremendously undervalued
good things we're boys with the saudis
the world if we weren't subordinate to saudi arabia:
(https://i.imgur.com/gkUKeXF.jpg)
Its currently about 4.95 here
$4.69-$4.79 on average here
my local price is about 185 pence per litre which is somewhere around $8.50 i think, i'm always shocked by how cheap the fuel is over there
jesus aubs and kaz
Quote from: ikanaide on June 26, 2022, 05:20:40 AMmy local price is about 185 pence per litre which is somewhere around $8.50 i think, i'm always shocked by how cheap the fuel is over there
JESUS
yeah dude the US has always had absurdly cheap gas relative to most of the rest of the world, and even now that is still true
if our gas prices catch up to Europe, maybe we'll actually invest more in bike lanes and high-speed rail
lmao could you imagine
Quote from: Mando Pandango on June 28, 2022, 09:09:17 AMif our gas prices catch up to Europe, maybe we'll actually invest more in bike lanes and high-speed rail
lmao could you imagine
*checks notes on what happened in 2008 gas prices when california passed chsr* hmmm, no
man gas prices just remind me how dogshit like 95% of american cities are designed its wild that our leaders think that mega highway parking lot cities are gonna be sustainable for like another 100+ years lmao we needed like 50% more walkable communities like 20 years ago
Quote from: C.Mongler on July 01, 2022, 02:35:14 PMman gas prices just remind me how dogshit like 95% of american cities are designed its wild that our leaders think that mega highway parking lot cities are gonna be sustainable for like another 100+ years lmao we needed like 50% more walkable communities like 20 years ago
yep 100% and this is such an absurd concept to your average american
i live in one of the most bikeable cities with some of the best public transit and there are still a lot of areas that are legitimately unsafe to get to without a car. don't want to say that we're fucked but it's starting to feel like we're inching closer to an automotive hellscape every day
And just like that, prices are down and the fake crisis caused by the MarketsTM is over.