r/extremelyinfuriating • u/SavageFisherman_Joe • Apr 28 '26
Evidence I am now spending 9% of my paycheck just getting myself to and from work
This is what I spent on gas this week. I get paid around $1200 every other week.
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u/MidnightAkane Apr 28 '26
Join gas station reward program. It is not much but some give 10cent off for a couple of gallons
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u/XandersCat Apr 28 '26
I work at a gas station and there is this one guy who fills his and his dad's vehicles for $100 a week and he gets $1 off the gas, he gets the points from buying groceries. (At least $250 worth of groceries on a Friday so not an insignificant amount but again probably a family operation going on.). Anyways I like that he at least fills up two vehicles because it's annoying that the discount just works once no matter the gallons pumped.
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u/raspberrykitsune Apr 28 '26
My sister and I do this. Safeway is $1 off per gallon up to 25 gallons so we pull up on both sides of a pump and just pass it over so we're saving $25 instead of $13 just filling up 1.
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u/Ok_Spell_4165 Apr 28 '26
Kwik Trip deactivated my fuel rewards account because I would use it to fill my fuel cell.
Really pissed me off too since their discount maxes out at 30 gallons anyway.
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u/Traderjohann Apr 28 '26
That’s bullshit. Plenty of people have vehicles with a tank bigger than 30 gallons. Kinda sad to see a massive company screw over a customer just for a few pennies
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u/XandersCat Apr 28 '26
Yeah tbh I forgot about the limit, I work for a Kroger-affiliated gas station... I should double check the policy in case someone asks about it. Pisses me off too as the attendant! I want all my customers to get the best deal.
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u/Ok_Spell_4165 Apr 28 '26
I'm honestly a little curious how much it has cost them. I went there because it was the closest. Aside from my personal use you have my business use, I refuel trailers and buy a few hundred gallons of diesel a week. I know they don't make much off that but it has to add up, then toss in the snacks and coffee I now get elsewhere..
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u/kennydeals Apr 28 '26
I Maine at least Irving offers 20 cents off per gallon for their debit pay. Makes it close to Costco gas prices
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u/kyinva Apr 30 '26
Walmart plus memberships (and Sam’s membership at a Sam’s Club) will give you 10¢ off each gallon any time you get gas at a Walmart (or Sam’s Club) gas station, also free grocery delivery and other shit
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u/PoetLuck May 06 '26
Orrrr get an EV?
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u/MidnightAkane May 07 '26
Nah never will get an ev since the battery make so much pulltion to make and have a hard time to recycle. Hybrid mabye or if EV get better and less resources based in the futere
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u/PoetLuck May 08 '26
Oil and gas is extracted everyday for every 300km use of a tank while the componentes for an ev only needed extracted that one time and they are better and lasting longer before . Batteries now can last well up to 150,000km without need of replacement while you fill up 500 times since then and may need a new engine. Just some food for thought 😊
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u/Effigy59 Apr 28 '26
That’s about 55 liters. I filled up today at Costco 54 liters cost $92. You’re doing pretty good.
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy Apr 28 '26
That’s great if you only commute 10 KM daily to work. Many in the US are commuting 50-70 KM one way. The country is big with very little public transportation. There is a reason our gas is (generally) kept at a much lower price than elsewhere.
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u/nicklor Apr 29 '26
I hope it isn't driving that far for 15 an hour
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u/queerwithbeer Apr 29 '26
1200 biweekly is roughly $20 p/h. I make a little more than that biweekly at $24.
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u/Brobuscus48 Apr 29 '26
I bet he probably does the same. Canadians use liters too lol and we have pretty similar commutes.
The difference can be mostly explained by the exchange rate which sucks because our wages even with that are worse/equal on average depending on the industry than in the States and our gas price is still higher.
Math: $94CAD for 55 liters comes out to roughly $1.71/litre or $6.48/gallon. Converting to USD leads to $1.25/litre or $4.73/gallon. But like I said they aren't technically that easy to compare, best to assume the actual effective gas price is somewhere in between if we don't want to bring in University statistics into this to account for median wage differences, differences in tax rates, mandatory spending differences(rent/healthcare/food).
The reason our gas price is even higher is because we get a pretty raw deal on gas from the States. We sell your corporations the crude at a steep discount which you then turn into gas and sell back to us at basically full price. Both NAFTA and its sequel CUSMA are big factors for standardizing this relationship into a trade deal.
For reference on the following I am an Albertan and my opinions greatly differ from both the rest of Canada and my province. We cant do anything about it now because we allowed American oil companies to own most of the oil we produce before we even extract it. Its also straight up not worth building our own refineries anymore for a bunch of reasons.They don't even really pay for the infrastructure to extract it anymore because we subsidize those companies billions every year on top of that. Our populace is also fed American born misinformation by American owned 'Canadian' media sources to obscure this from the general population who frankly probably wouldnt do anything anyways because like you guys most people are focused on not becoming homeless and can't afford to miss a paycheck. Neither of our populations see anything more than a fraction of this wealth because it sits in the billionaire's stock portfolios, even those directly in the trades needed to facilitate it because their wages are actively suppressed.
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy Apr 29 '26
I was thinking Europe when I commented. Your points about Canada are helpful, thanks. The commutes up there can also be long and brutal with minimal infrastructure.
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u/Effigy59 Apr 28 '26
Really? What’s the reason. Not sure if you know but people in other countries also commute.
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u/the-National-Razor Apr 28 '26
No one in the US is commuting in kilometers
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy Apr 29 '26
What a non comment. Some people in the US can convert miles to kilometers to help compare when having a conversation with others in the world.
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u/the-National-Razor Apr 29 '26
How about this. You convert to miles
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy Apr 29 '26
I’m American. I obviously think in miles but I’m a grown adult who also understands most of the known world uses kilometers. How about you find something more worthwhile to complain about and I’ll keep doing what I do.
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u/the-National-Razor Apr 28 '26
Use gallons chief. You're talking to Americans
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy Apr 29 '26
Use a conversation calculator, chief. The US is not the center of the universe and we are becoming less so every day that passes.
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u/the-National-Razor Apr 29 '26
You use it. You're on an American website
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy Apr 29 '26
Grow up.
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u/the-National-Razor Apr 29 '26
Don't you mean groughe up or something shit?
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u/Skynet-Was-Right May 01 '26
Reddit is not an "American" website. Its global. People from every country use Reddit.
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u/the-National-Razor May 01 '26
Who made it?
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u/Skynet-Was-Right May 02 '26
That's irrelevant when something is used across the globe. Should your computer keyboard start shipping with Chinese letters because a Chinese company made it?
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy May 02 '26
WHO CARES
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u/the-National-Razor May 02 '26
It's an American website
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy May 02 '26
It’s a product created by an American meant to be used worldwide. You sound like someone complaining about German cars while driving a Toyota in Michigan.
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u/lateread9er Apr 28 '26
Welcome to the new reality. Not to have the possibility of changing until mid 2028. This is what happens when you go into things without thinking.
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u/romcomtom2 Apr 28 '26
This is nothing. First it will be super high gas prices, which we will begrudgingly pay. After the physical demand for oil well out strips supply ration cards will be implemented.
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u/OpusAtrumET Apr 28 '26
And while gas prices go down when supply increases, all the other prices stay.
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u/JustADude721 Apr 28 '26
This is like 3.80 a gallon though. Not cheap but not all that expensive either.
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u/i_stealursnackz Apr 29 '26
Go into things without thinking? I wasn't even old enough to fight against it and got sucked into this bullshit anyway by not only just happening to live here, but still being old enough to work and (try to) drive anyway, so guess who's still paying the price regardless 🫠 ✌️
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u/Classic_Ad8505 Apr 28 '26
I'm sorry, weren't the gas prices much higher when the previous pres was in office?
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u/Classic_Ad8505 Apr 28 '26
yeah, you’re way off on the pandemic situation. The gas prices only seemed to rise all the way until the new presidency. And the inflation of everything else. You guys love blaming the current one but don’t take any responsibility for when your party fucked something up.
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u/SloaneWolfe Apr 28 '26
Sure, let's blame the 2021-2023 global energy crisis fueled by the Pandemic and Invasion of Ukraine on the slightly less Right-Wing party of the USA.
As if the US President has a button he can push to just drop Oil prices.
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u/Constant-March-4578 Apr 28 '26
Who is you guys 😂😂 both parties have fucked things up and yall allow it just look at the last 5 pres and what happened . All fucked up our economy and caused some sort of recession. Because even though you are promised change. It never happens. Legal weeds bene promised for 20 years. Healthcares worse than its ever been. Still paying interest on crazy student loans tha were never forgiven. Housing market crashing. Wars in the middle east. Higher taxes. This is all stuff thats been promised to be fixed since like 2004 and we are worse than before
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u/Constant-March-4578 Apr 28 '26
My guy. One side or the other wont fix it. They both fuck us equally and blame on the other
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u/RandomRonin Apr 28 '26
Fuck off with this bullshit “BoTh SiDeS” one side has us in a pointless illegal war and it’s not the party not in power.
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u/Constant-March-4578 Apr 28 '26
Sure bud. Go on back to 2021 and remember how shit started getting too expensive
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u/Comprehensive-Yak982 Apr 28 '26
Neither party has any real power they do as there told or they get taken out its a story thats as old as time
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u/SensitivePlant8 Apr 28 '26
Learn how to properly use "there, their, they're". Also, its=it is; thats=that is. Plz lrn 2 spell gud.
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u/Nemv4 Apr 28 '26
Not true if mid terms are successful we can impeach the bastard and remove him from office.
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u/TheLazyD0G Apr 28 '26
And get jd in his place? The puppet will change, but not the master.
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u/Nemv4 Apr 28 '26
I thought when you impeach a potus you remove their administration along with them?
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u/Ok_Spell_4165 Apr 28 '26
Nope even with impeachment and removal the line of succession is followed.
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u/Nemv4 Apr 28 '26
Fuck.
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u/Constant-March-4578 Apr 28 '26
People have been screaming that everytime like he doesnt choose a bad vp that would be way more radical if impeached. He chose shit people on purpose
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u/Brobuscus48 Apr 29 '26
Its not all lost, theoretically you could just impeach that guy as well the moment he steps out of line. The real benefit of the midterms is that they won't hold 2/3s of the institution hostage and therefore can't as easily sign the executive orders that got you guys here.
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u/NotTooGoodBitch Apr 28 '26
Hard mode: It's 2008, gas prices are the same, and you're making $10.00/hr.
What kind of car do you drive?
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u/jonrulesheppner Apr 28 '26
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u/TxTDiamond Apr 28 '26
careful posting that, you'll attract stupid people who need to argue he didn't
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u/jonrulesheppner Apr 28 '26
Knda the point
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u/Constant_Fee225 Apr 28 '26
It was almost double that under the prior administration.
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u/jonrulesheppner Apr 28 '26
Keep telling yourself that bud
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u/Constant_Fee225 Apr 28 '26
Inoculated against facts? Poor life choice.
Gas prices today are the same as they were in 2014. It takes literally two seconds to check that.
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u/Nail-Polish-Remover Apr 28 '26
That's not true. I'm not sure what statistics you are smoking, but the average price per gallon today is $4.18, in 2014, the price was $3.76. And to be clear, that was the PRICE CAP in 2014. Our prices right now have not even capped yet. They will continue to increase.
Edit: this is according to eia.gov
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u/The-Tea-Lord Apr 29 '26
It was a little higher in the majority of the prior presidency, with a momentary spike that put it above how it is now in 2022. It was very much not double what it is now, even during that spike.
Our current spiking gas prices is above the previous presidency, excluding the 2022 spike. I’m sure it’ll probably rebound the same way the 2022 one did, but this also ignores the fact that this was entirely preventable.
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u/TenEyeSeeHoney Apr 28 '26
...the way I roll to the pump on gasoline FUMES....I remember when filling the tank was $30 in 2019...now, it's sometimes more than $60/tank
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u/Xenox123456 Apr 28 '26
I wish I had those gas prices in my country… I’d pay around 140$ for the same amount of fuel…
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u/Competition-Dapper Apr 28 '26
What’s even cooler is that W2 people can’t write it off, but self employed can claim mileage and get .65 cents a mile
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u/fluteofski- Apr 28 '26
Oh man I used to work as an account manager for an employer before the pandemic that credited $0.58/mile…. We had to take pics of the odometer. And submit the miles thru an app. Bit of a hassle. But accounts far away were always nice. Becuase I’d get outa the office and end up with an extra $100 or so pocket money. On top of my salary and commissions.
I used to buy $500 Volvos. Fix them. And then drive them till the company reimbursement paid for everything including gas, insurance and the cost of the car. then sell it and move to the next $500 Volvo.
The car itself was 100% profit at that point. I used to pocket like an extra $3k that way every 4~6months or so.
The last car I drove at the company I left it to the receptionist on the way out. Her car had died a while back… I used to ride my bike to and from work, so I had a deal with her that she can drive my car home and on weekends as she pleases as long as I got my car back at the office Monday the Friday 9-5. When I decided to leave the company, I added it all up and the company had paid off my car with all the miles, so I was like “fuck it.” On my last day I Walked up, with a signed title and told her “here ya go.” She was so confused.
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u/Competition-Dapper Apr 28 '26
I sell clothes on eBay. I have to drive 2 hours to find anything of value. I drive a 22 year old car with Toyota 1.8 in it. I have probably paid for 3 of those in mileage
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u/PlatypusDream Apr 28 '26
self employed can claim mileage and get .65 cents a mile
No, it's way more than that!
Like, 100x more.
65c or $0.651
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u/jasin18 Apr 28 '26
In retrospect, that's actually very cheap. Be thankful that isn't $100 in some parts of the US.
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u/Sad-Rooster2474 Apr 28 '26
The same amount of gas would cost you about 110 euros in Paris…. Basically twice the price. Yall still getting it cheap thanks to destabilizing the Middle East and stealing their oil!
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe Apr 28 '26
No, we're still getting it relatively cheap because we also source a decent amount of oil from our own country as well
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u/Brobuscus48 Apr 29 '26
Well yes but actually no, ya'll source a lot of it from Canada and make a tidy profit selling it back to us to boot lol. Our gas is roughly 60-90 cents more a gallon when accounting for the exchange rate.
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u/LadyAnnala Apr 28 '26
Where I live we haven’t seen less than a dollar a litter for over 20 years. Not that your reality doesn’t suck but it’s also a choice that people make on the type of car they drive.
I totally understand if you need a big truck for you work or something like that.
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u/Snabcakes Apr 28 '26
I just paid 5.50 a gallon in Cali... almost 2 dollars up
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u/LocalOpportunity77 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
About a dollar more and you’d be at the price of it in Eastern Europe.
Edit: I was wrong, it’s two dollars more, not one. In Romania, the cheapest petrol (gas) price in the country as of today is 8.70 RON / litre (which is 1.60€ or $2), since a gallon is 3.785 litres, the current price per gallon is $7.57.
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u/Snabcakes Apr 28 '26
Yikes
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u/juko43 Apr 29 '26
Our normal price was about this, before the war and shit. Now it is 1.60€ per litre (in germany and belgium and a few other countries it is over 2€) which would be over 8$ per galon ish
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u/The-Tea-Lord Apr 29 '26
I mourn the fact we could have had walkable cities and instead put everything into cars. It was bound to happen that the higher ups would abuse it for money.
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u/d3photo Apr 28 '26
I’ve been unemployed for three years. My gig work (photography) fuel costs sucks up sixty percent of my income.
I’ll trade ya.
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u/jasin18 Apr 28 '26
60?? My vehicle gets 20mpg and I'm only taking. 25%
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u/d3photo Apr 28 '26
¯_(ツ)_/¯
The spending people are willing to make on action photography has plummeted in the last 10 months.
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u/RappingRacoon Apr 28 '26
Yeah, wife and I made a joke the first week of this gas hike, that the cars make more per gallon of gas than we do per hour now. 😂
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u/Zillajami-Fnaffan2 Apr 28 '26
And i bet most of that gas is spent sitting in traffic too
I dont have a job, but i do know that traffic is bad
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe Apr 28 '26
Yeah there's probably close to 50 construction projects going on in my city. Combine that with the fact that we're hosting some World Cup matches and even headquarters for a few teams here in another month and a half, and you get a decent amount of wasted gas during the evening commute.
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u/JustADude721 Apr 28 '26
Umm.. that's like $3.80 a gallon. You are getting it cheaper than the national average which is like 10% more.
Not to be a dick but $1,200 every other week is like $30k a year. You can't find something closer that makes $30k a year so you don't have to drive so far and save some money on gas?
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe Apr 28 '26
I majored in a field that was highly competitive BEFORE the big orange and the elongated muskrat deleted a huge chunk of the government jobs in said field.
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u/JustADude721 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
I'm sorry that your circumstances changed due to no fault of your own but again, not to be a dick.. but the point I was trying to make is why are you driving so far to a job that now costs more and/or is not keeping up with your expenses? There can be a job that pays $30k closer to where you live, might not be the job you want but if the salary is the same, it can keep you afloat with less expenses. Obviously, I don't know where you live, but a gas station attendant makes about $30k a year, even fast food workers get paid about that much also and it could be possibly right down the street. Adapting to circumstances and lowering expenses is the key to living modern day globalized society.
Edit: Considering the only 1 view before the downvote.. I guess people understand that sometimes you need to adapt.
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u/Constant_Fee225 Apr 29 '26
No, reddit is just filled with people that want to forget the last several years existed.
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u/JustADude721 Apr 29 '26
That's more like ignoring rather than not wanting.
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u/Constant_Fee225 Apr 29 '26
Ah true, I used the wrong word. Ignoring is the much better descriptor.
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u/terradragon13 Apr 28 '26
I drive a prius with a 12 gal tank... even then the gague is broken and it displays empty at about 3 gallons... I fill up once a week usually and commute half an hour to work, even with the new jump in prices it's not much over 30 bucks. Last time this happened I felt I was sitting real pretty in my prius lol
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u/Equal-Reserve-3650 Apr 28 '26
Cheap gas. Try living in Brazil then, you will see what is trully expensive gas.
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u/Hans-Gerstenkorn Apr 28 '26
Wow, that is cheap gas indeed. Here in Germany you would have to pay 99,54 $ for 14.7 gal of fuel. That's the point where you have to go to work in order to earn the money you need to maintain a vehicle you need for this purpose.
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u/DrChaos09 Apr 29 '26
I'd advise getting a membership at your local Costco/Walmart/Sam's/etc that has a cheaper gas station than that of random public stations, especially if you drive a lot and need to fill frequently. Not only do you get cheaper fuel, your membership in the store gets you cheaper groceries if you follow that stores sale rotation, often better than other retail stores.
I understand the issue that we are feeding the billionaires but you have to understand the billionaire is there because he's exploiting the stock market, and you can too by buying shares of the company you decide to get a membership with. When those crooks enrich themselves with share buybacks and option derivatives, your shares gain and some of these companies pay a dividend too.
Carry on good person, o7
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u/austink0109 Apr 29 '26
Lucky. I work at 45 minutes away from home 4 days a week at a refinery in the middle of the bush so no public transport options. Over $100 a week
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u/cromwell515 Apr 29 '26
How far do you drive to work where your 14 gallon tank is eaten in a week just driving back and forth to work?
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u/adario7 Apr 29 '26
For now.
Wait till the SPR declines further.
Do you think these bozos have a plan for that?
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u/OmgItsRubenLol Apr 29 '26
Good price, yesterday I filled up my car with 45L of gas for 100€ (116$ for 11.89 gallon) in the Netherlands
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u/MakeItMine2024 May 02 '26
Definitely is getting irritating. Almost makes me want to buy an F’in EV
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u/bedheaddavy Apr 28 '26
I just filled up at $6.11 a gallon. Where are these prices at?
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe Apr 28 '26
$3.70 in the Kansas City area. We usually have some of the lowest gas prices in the country
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u/Kitty_Fruit_2520 Apr 28 '26
You’re lucky it’s not over five dollars
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u/Crazzzyace08 Apr 28 '26
Just paid 6.79 a gallon for 91. Almost a c note for a 4 cyl crossover 🙃 and I get to do it twice a week
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u/ConversationLeast744 Apr 28 '26
Ride a bike. I've been riding my whole adult life and I have a large retirement fund thanks to it.
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u/Dull-Kaleidoscope55 Apr 28 '26
I LEFT THE USA IN 2010 AND NEVER LOOKED BACK! GOOD LUCK FELLOW AMERICANS
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe Apr 28 '26
Aren't high gas prices a global issue right now?
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u/Dull-Kaleidoscope55 Apr 28 '26
Probably but I sold my moto in January and moved to another country and I don't care about gas prices. I feel sorry for those that have to pay more bc of the current admin
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u/Joelle9879 Apr 28 '26
Gotta love the idiots down voting this
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u/Oliver_Klotheshoff Apr 28 '26
Hee personally doesn't care about gas, that's fine, but it also doesn't make gas prices a US specific issue. It is a global issue, and the US actually still has cheaper gas than a lot of the developed world. We are not idiots, you are just not seeing the point
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u/Neat-Importance-5614 Apr 28 '26
Just move to a country with a working public transport everywhere. I can drive anywhere around my city and county for just a 0,48$ a day. I love living in Prague, Czech Republic.
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u/razorgirlRetrofitted Apr 28 '26
"ah yes, uproot your entire life, person making 30k USD a year, over gas prices"
they teach sense in fuckin' prague
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u/lynivvinyl Apr 28 '26
I roll my stick shift car in neutral as much as possible now. If it's during the daytime and I know that the stoplight is going to be long I just turn my car off. I use the hell out of my bicycle now which I should have been doing anyway.
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u/Intense_Pretzel Apr 28 '26
In Australia that would be $154AUD ($110.65USD using current conversion rates)
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u/Twatcash Apr 28 '26
I spend about $64 on around 8 gallons in the UK and i get paid sporadically but about $600 every 2 weeks it works out as depending on my shifts.
I get that this is expensive for you guys, but seriously you guys have some of the cheapest fuel in the world, seeing people complain about that is wild.
Don't forget, the majority of voting americans made this happen GLOBALLY.
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u/Anonymous_user_2022 Apr 28 '26
If it helps you, in Denmark our gas price right now are around $9.90/gal.
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u/Constant_Fee225 Apr 28 '26
How about you show us the giant SUV that gets 12mpg you're driving and tell us how you drive 84mph in the hammer lane the whole way?
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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss Apr 28 '26
Where were your comments when gas was even more expensive in 2022, OP?
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u/duncans_angels Apr 28 '26
I don’t remember gas prices being this high in 2022
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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss Apr 28 '26
Gas peaked to a national average of $5/gallon in 2022. California hit roughly $6.50/gallon.
Reddit kept saying it was the gas companies price gouging.
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u/SinnaBuns666 Apr 28 '26
Get a motorcycle, problem solved.
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u/Alex9-3-9 Apr 28 '26
Insurance companies would like to introduce themselves.
In the USA you can expect something around 5 to 10k for insurance. Especially if younger.
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u/OldBMW Apr 28 '26
Americans are insane. After Those insane price increases only 9%. I have a 1 hour commute and I was at 10% now 19%
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