$5.85 a US gallon? Horrendous, you’re up to 70% of what diesel costs in Sweden today.[1]

[1] https://bensinpriskollen.se/dieselpris/

stockresearcher 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A large component of the price of fuel is taxes, which are then used for roadway construction and maintenance.

Here in the US (and probably Sweden too), those taxes are not sufficient to pay all of the roadway costs, so tax money from general funds - income taxes, sales/use/vat(?), etc - get diverted to help cover costs.

In reality, the overall cost of fuel is probably very similar. It’s just that the overall cost is more directly reflected in the price shown at the fuel station in Sweden than in the US.

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1over137 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

5.85 USD/gallon is: 1.33€ / L or 2.10 CAD / L.

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xattt an hour ago | parent [-]

Cries in actual 2.60/L CAD.

I am feeling it for folks who use oil heat (diesel with different tax structure) in areas where there is no natural gas.

Home heating oil runs at about 75% the cost of diesel. The storage tanks are 275 gallons/1100 litres, so a fill-up, which might happen four to six times in a winter, would be extremely painful right now.

	▲	throwaway270925 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Lets hope this motivates a lot of them to invest in stuff like ground source heat pumps (where applicable/affordable)

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retired 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

€2.66 for diesel in The Netherlands.

Which is double of the US price.

Good thing the majority of The Netherlands does everything on a bicycle and doesn't need a car.

It does hurt the transportation industry though. And agriculture, construction, heavy industries.

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brnt an hour ago | parent [-]

There is plenty of car traffic in NL [1]. Most runs on benzine/gasoline though, not diesel.

[1] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/rapportages/2026/onderweg-...

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retired an hour ago | parent [-]

Last time I was in The Netherlands I hardly saw any cars. Everyone was on bicycles. It seems that my personal observance doesn't match the real world.

	▲	mono442 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You probably was only in the biggest cities.

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7bit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So what? People in the US should not feel pressured by it, because you have it worse?

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brnt an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I guess you don't want us to complain we are also feeling the effects?

We couldn't and didn't vote the primary cause for this in office, thank you very much.

	▲	7bit an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No -- and that wasnt a complaint. It was downright an attack. It always makes me laugh when people can't follow an argument or chain of thought -- or misconstrue because they need to win random Internet arguments

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lyu07282 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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7bit 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Bro what the heck are you talking about.

Maybe Google vassals and you'd be ashamed talking such ignorant nonsense.

But you won't. It's actually on me feeding the troll.

	▲	lyu07282 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ahh right sorry I meant "bringing democracy to Iran has a price every western aligned state should be willing to pay" or something like that

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pickleglitch an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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bsian 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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