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I mean its one gallon of gas, what could it cost, $10?
Not that far off. In Vienna for example petrol starts currently at 1.6 EUR/L (7.1 USD/gal) and Diesel is around 1.8 EUR/L (>8 USD/gal).
The US has a serious problem of being hooked on unsustainably cheap fuel due to oversized vehicles, spread out, car only, suburbia etc. Add to that the lagging transition to renewables (or rather the outright hostility of the US administration, actively preventing projects)
I'll be honest I've been biking around town lately (mine's a stupidly heavy cargo trike with an aftermarket class 2 motor slapped onto it, i love it) and with gas prices the way they've been, a lot of pickup truck drivers have been asking about my mileage (35-40 miles per charge, which on solar is free).
That's a great choice, where the urban layout allows for it, without feeling suicidal. I know also the US has places where this is perfectly feasible.
This is statesia, bud. Riding a bike is how we validate our death wishes.
Maybe in parts of Europe
Yeah, but that's in euro-dollars, or whatever you call them over there. Who even knows how much that is in real dollars? (I honestly wish I could claim /s on this, but this is literally how most Americans would see it)
It's definitely a stereotype for a reason. Briefly talked to a US or Canadian couple in their 40s-50s last year, they were traveling Europe. They were in slight disbelief that a driver wouldn't take dollars/any other currency from a Chinese couple who had no Euros left on them. I wonder how it would go for me if I tried to pay in Euros in NA. Probably not great.
I'd really like to believe it wasn't a Canadian couple 😭. We deal with Americans trying to use USD here too and I can't see any of us expecting to be able to use CAD anywhere outside of our country
A lot of border communities in the states at least accept Canadian currency, usually at 30% increase. Here in Maine we have the ITS (international snowmobile trail system) and plenty of folks from Quebec and New Brunswick ride over and end up spending Canadian currency.
Yeah even pretty far inland you occasionally get a Canuck buck in your change (usually it's a small coin)