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.
It’s because there’s no market for it, all the cars are EV’s
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.
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
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
