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Realized that with my new job I’m at $500/month for gas. Starting to seriously consider a hybrid or electric but damn they expensive. Either way might just need something more reliable than my 320k+ car.

Whatchya driving, do you like it, and why?

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[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Christ Jesus, 500 a month? I might not even pay that much and I literally drive the work day (Amazon flex, Uber eats, etc) for my job. Do you know how to drive gas efficient? If your RPM's never pass 2K and you cruise to stop lights etc you can still drive a decent speed and get much better gas mileage. Stop idling at long lights - if you're going to wait more than 10 seconds, shut the car off. Perhaps invest in some fuel injector cleaner as a cheap alternative to a proper tune up.

unless you drive for a living you should definitely get that way down, (unless you live in california AND commute 3 hours a day or something, in which case you have bigger problems)

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should have specified that wasn’t in freedom dollars, $500 Canadian. So moneys worth probably only like $300USD and gas up here costs over double, if what someone else in the thread said is right.

[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oops, my bad. how Yankee of me to assume you were down in the states.

300 USD still sounds pretty high to me for someone who doesn't drive for a living but I don't know what the petrol situation is up there for y'all right now.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder, now everyone lives in the US. Gas prices are not the same globally.

[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yes, but not global in this case, I saw their unit of currency was dollars and was correct to narrow it down to North america. my flaw was assuming the US and ruling out our friendly neighbors to the north

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brunei and even Cuban and Chilean peso use $ symbol. It's also common to use dollars to explain a quantity of money in general if you're not from Europe. "I pay 500$ for gas" is simply the easiest way to say "I pay this amount of money for gas" in a conversation where the audience is global.

[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is probably gonna sound subtly racist but, with everything taken together, including their use of the English language it just made most contextual sense that it was an American. I'm still trying to normalize the fact that some cultures call it petrol.