I remember those prices. I was there, when we went past a dollar and the gas station attendant was pissed saying, “we’ll never see it under a dollar ever again”, and he was right.
I remember when it went past $2 because I worked at a gas station at the time and all the patrons were pissed. This was before pay at the pump, so people would come in to the register and pay cash mostly. They would also bitch and moan. Yeah - sorry it isn’t my fault. I was making minimum wage and had my first car. I wasn’t too happy either.
Minimum wage? I bet it was stupidly low back then. Probably like $7.25
It’s because there’s no market for it, all the cars are EV’s
Here regular is 1.5 euro per liter, expensive one 1.8-1.9 euro per liter
That’s about $6.50/gallon.
In the Midwest it starts looking high at half that
The US has some of the cheapest gas in the world outside the OPEC countries (and I think Venezuela is cheap too). Japan right now is about $4.50/gal
Yeah, I’m not sure about the mechanics, but I’m sure plenty of palms are greased to keep gas prices low. It’s one of the things people like to blame on the president.
At that price, unicorn blood and printer ink seem cheaper.
Well, not yet anywho
https://www.amazon.com/Gallon-refill-ink-printer-Cartridges/dp/B004JZF9MG
This looks like Silent Hill or maybe a Resident Evil so Imma go out on a limb and guess that Japanese developers don’t know how much gas actually costs here.
Or, if this is indeed Silent Hill 2, they’re using average prices of the Eastern US from back in the 70s/80s, where the game is set (according to the dev; shit looks more like the 90s to me). 🤷🏻♂️
Resident Evil takes place in 1998, and apparently the average cost was $1.06 per gallon at the time. Obviously, they just put the average price on the sign rather than deviating from it a little bit for realism, but it does look fairly accurate. Apparently it was $1.23 the year before and $1.17 the year after so it wasn’t always that nice.
Gas is actually cheaper now than it used to be when I started driving in the 2010s. At that time, gas was over $4 a gallon at times and $4 was worth more back then. It still blows my mind that most of the people whining about gas prices are out here buying giant trucks and SUVs that get like 20 mpg on the highway, meanwhile my experience with gas prices made me rank fuel efficiency as one of my top priorities in a new vehicle.
