alt Hacker Newsstill half as cheap as in EU
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What you on about? A gallon of diesel is 5,9 euros in Italy and 8,6 euros in Germany. In other countries anywhere in between
A lot of the “savings” in US get eaten up through poor economy, poor driving strategy and dependence on traffic lights + stop signs instead of roundabouts + “traffic from the left/right gets priority” yield-by-default junctions.
I think cost per kilometre/lightyear/rod is close
It works out at €1.40 a litre, or £1.20 a litre.
Diesel at the local garage I passed at lunchtime is £1.89 (57% more). The web [0] suggests that is more expensive than anywhere in europe other than France and Denmark for some reason.
So nowhere near "half as cheap". Throw in poor American average mileage and I suspect the price-per-mile is quite similar.
My grandma called last night and mentioned that diesel was 2.50 €/litre. That would make it about $8.75 a gallon.
Europeans don't drive half as much as Americans.