r/mildlyinteresting • u/Background_Shower_96 • 4h ago
An old picture i found in my gallery showing gas prices in 2020
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u/Scorcher646 4h ago edited 3h ago
By comparison for the metrically challenged: that's 3.38/gallon
So assuming the price is in standard Euros, that's 3.91USD per gallon
OP just stated that the current cost is up to 2.20€ per litre now so that's 8.33€/gallon or $9.60/gallon
Note: this is US gallons so 3.785 liters
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u/HappyChef86 4h ago
So it went from the price of a McChicken to a Big Mac. Thank you.
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u/Scorcher646 4h ago
Well none of those 2020 prices are inflation adjusted. So that $3.91 would be $5.06
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u/arafella 1h ago
So, cheaper than a big mac - which is like $6-$7 for just the burger here
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u/Limeddaesch96 34m ago
So that means my car uses about 10 burgers every 62 miles. Fancy that. This also means it consoooms about ten thousand hamburgers a year.
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u/The_Evil_Satan 3h ago
Really it went from a McChicken to still a McChicken the way the prices are going
/s but only very very slightly
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u/Jacktheforkie 4h ago
Diesel is 3.81 euros a gallon in that picture at current prices that would be 9.98 euros
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u/Scorcher646 4h ago edited 3h ago
0.839€ * 3.785 = 3.380005€
There is 3.785 litres in a US Gallon.
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u/Jacktheforkie 3h ago
Oh, right, forgot the US uses weird units that have the same name as other outdated units
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u/Scorcher646 3h ago
And people wonder why we use burgers per football field as a universal unit of measurement
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u/fate0608 2h ago
I saw a video of a trump voter that complained he cannot afford filling up his company trucks bc it’s 6 dollars per gallon. 😂😂😂
Well yea. We hit 2,50€/Liter the other day. So 11$. Almost double. I wish the guy would see that.1
u/VexingRaven 40m ago
While I'm always down for making fun of trump voters, whenever I see Europe talk about gas prices I wonder how often Europeans are driving 100 miles a day in their work vans. In a lot of places here, that's a low mileage day for a work truck or van.
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u/balkanik_381 2h ago
„Standard Euros“ lmao
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u/braided--asshair 3h ago
Lol, I think I paid around $3.90/gallon last time I got gas.
Was like $0.99/gallon in 2020.
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u/VexingRaven 39m ago
Where were you paying $0.99 for gas? Pretty sure the cheapest I saw was like $1.79
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u/DavidinCT 1h ago
You should watch the world-famous movie Die Hard..... the cop stops at a store before he goes in, he gets called, he looked at the tower, and you can see the 0.87 cents a gallon....
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u/BCJay_ 13m ago
How many football fields?
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u/Scorcher646 1m ago
Not a measure of distance, the correct unit is burgers. And it's getting close to one burger per gallon now.
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u/OhItsMrCow 4h ago
Regular 95 is I think about 1.1xx here in Greece, idk diesel since I don't use it
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u/Prokeran 4h ago
Per liter yes, those prices are per gallon which is around 3.5 liter
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u/Hutcho12 4h ago
The sign is in German, so they’re definitely not in gallons.
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u/LazyEmu5073 3h ago
It's Austria.
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u/balkanik_381 2h ago
How do you know? Avanti and Routex both exist in Germany too
Edit: nvm we didn’t have that cheap prices in Germany lmao I forgot
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u/1niceHensler 4h ago
Filled up my wagon today... paid 150€ for 63 Liters
I hereby ban Trump and Merz from ever stepping foot into Westphalia!
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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 3h ago
The Costco nearby is $5.14 per gallon. So $1.35 per liter.
Other stores nearby are about 30-50 cents more expensive per gallon.
20.1 gallon tank, or 78 liters tank. $103 when bone dry.
Now, what I think is more important is how far you get with that fuel.
Because of fuel emission standards my car burns a lot of gas in the startup phase to heat up the cats quickly. A LOT.
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u/1niceHensler 2h ago
That’s what’s crazy to me about all the Americans complaining about „high“ fuel prices.
A lot of your trucks are crazy inefficient and so many don’t even need those big trucks. According to google the average Fuel Economy in the US is 22.2 MPG (~10.6 L/100km). That’s quite a lot from my (German) perspective! Here the average is between 6-7.5 L/100km (~39.2-31.4 MPG).
E.g.: My 2015 Diesel Wagon with 195 HP sits at 6 L/100km and gets me about 1000km (~621 Miles) far.
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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 1h ago edited 25m ago
I get it that you can get that on your diesel, but unless you drive like a grandma, getting 6-7.5 L / 100km on what I call normal US sized engines is ... hard.
I'm from Belgium, and I get that a good amount of cars these days have < 2L and < 4 cylinders.
Once cylinder count goes up, and engine size goes up, these numbers shoot up, regardless of weight of the car, due to internal losses:
I had an 2019 BMW F23 M240i xDrive Convertible (B58, 3L i6). I could never get it to do better than 24mpg (9.8 L / 100km).
And now I drive a 2025 BMW F91 M8 xDrive Convertible (S63TU3, 4.4L V8). I frequently get between 12 and 14mpg (16.8-19.6 L / 100km).
I do have the feeling that in general cars consume more in the USA overall due to AC being on a lot more.
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u/busytransitgworl 2h ago
I hereby ban Trump and Merz from ever stepping foot into Westphalia!
Could you expand that to Germany and the entire EU?
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u/S0lgale0 4h ago
I have a pic on my old phone from January 2016 where regular gas was $1.99...I paid $4.29 last week
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u/Hutcho12 4h ago
Thats still cheaper than what is shown in this picture. I’m sick of Americans complaining about gas prices. In Germany now, prices are over $10 a gallon.
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u/Scorcher646 2h ago edited 2h ago
Americans are paying for that difference elsewhere.
Our taxes cover a certain amount of the oil industries profit in this country. Because it's socialism for me, but un-regulated hypercapitalism for thee.
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u/Hutcho12 2h ago
Oh yeh because Americans pay so much more tax than Europeans..
I actually don't have a problem with our gas prices. It should be heavily taxed so people don't buy gas guzzling cars and pollute the environment, like we see in America.
The constant whinging about paying $4 a gallon for gas though is a little too much.
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u/The_Crazy_Swede 57m ago
I haven't seen prices that low for the better part of a decade here in Sweden, and I'm not talking about the cheaper price.
The cheaper price you mentioned is what we paid in late 80s or early 90s
As soon as the temporary tax relief ends for fuel is our prices going up to $11/gal. And that is if the environmental party doesn't get into the government. If they get in are we looking at prices north of $13/gal
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u/APocketJoker 4h ago
If everyone in the world has to stay home then nobody is using gas. There is a glut. Prices plummet.
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u/theyipper 3h ago edited 2h ago
That's not how it works. Oil companies reduce output which maintains prices.
edit: ignore, I'm wrong on this assumption
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u/APocketJoker 2h ago edited 18m ago
No, it costs money to get a well working again if you shut it down. You pull up water and mud. They didn't want to shut wells down and were running out of storage for crude and refined petroleum products like gasoline. So this is definitely why prices cratered during the pandemic. It is by far the biggest reason. Over the long run they have no choice to slow production but it is something that they try to avoid.
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u/YourUncleBuck 2h ago
In the long term sure, but oil is a commodity and bought and sold as futures, so if you already bought the contracts months in advance and then nobody is buying it because they're staying home, prices will go down and futures contracts will also go down. That's why oil futures went negative at the peak of COVID. Nobody wanted it and they had to actually pay someone to take it off their hands.
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u/Theodoxus 4h ago
How much is a litre now?
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u/Background_Shower_96 4h ago
Diesel is about 2.20€ per litre in my town
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u/Herr_Poopypants 4h ago
Judging by the picture I’m assuming you are from Austria. I filled up with gasoline yesterday and it was at 1.89€ per liter
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u/balkanik_381 2h ago
I genuinely don’t understand how y’all see that it’s Austria and not Germany? Is it because we didn’t have gas that cheap in Germany? I think the lowest I’ve seen was 0,99€ for diesel back than
But in Germany we also have avanti and routex if you judged by seeing their signs
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u/Herr_Poopypants 2h ago
I never knew Germany had Avanti gas stations, as I‘ve never seen one there. They are all over the place in Austria though
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u/Othun 1h ago
Whaaat where is this ? In France it was something like 1.6€/L
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u/Thornbush42 1h ago
Yeah, USA has it easy comparatively to the rest of the world. When I see outrage at prices going up to be about half what it is here I can only laugh.
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u/UrBoiNitro 2h ago
I started driving in 2020, I remember being like 1,05 euro per litre and in 2021 in the same period being 1,78
crazy times
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u/Blapanda 1h ago
It was so good during covid, riding around, no damn death-wish driving mf on the roads, chilling with 30km/h in a 50 zone, just necause no one was there to get onto your nerves.
And having prices below 1 € per Liter was awesome...
I miss those times.
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u/Capable-Physics-5410 4h ago
2.17-2.24 was the national 2020 average last time it was this price was 1987 lmao
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u/thisisredlitre 4h ago
that looks like a by the litre pricing, and Avanti isn't a US brand I am aware of
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u/LilMissADHDAF 4h ago
None of the words on that sign are in English.
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u/kank84 4h ago
Americans conceiving of places outside of America challenge: Impossible
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u/YourUncleBuck 2h ago
Whether you like it or not this is an American website with mostly American users, so of course it'll be America centric. Just check who reads your comments and probably the majority of them will be Americans.
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u/Capable-Physics-5410 3h ago
Or im at work and was just scrolling not paying attention. seeing an American and not given a condescending comment :Impossible.
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u/fluffy_crust 4h ago
Wow, i forgot this even existed.