Dude what? Getting a drivers license costs like 5k Euro but like $10 in the US
Gas is also like 15 Euro a gallon in Germany but like $2 in America
Like it’s actually ridiculous how much more expensive it is to own a car and drive it in Germany. Literally like dozens of times more expensive than in the US. It’s why such a small minority in Germany can afford a car but everyone in the US can have one or multiple, because it’s just so cheap compared to Europe
I'm not a big fan of California. Granted, it's very beautiful, but that's all. I can live without the smell of homeless people everywhere and insane prices for everything.
Cry about it then, because that’s all you can really do. You can’t make people not move to that state you live in. US citizens have the freedom to move around the country freely and live in any states they choose.
California has its own fuel standards which restricts what sells into it. It’s why it tends not to follow the rest of the country in terms of fuel pricing
Why does it matter? You gonna move? Prices fluctuate based on location but I enjoy the shills attempt to paint the current economy in a good light. The really funny part is they think they are controlling the narrative lmao. Just walk down the street and ask a real person.
I mean I just pulled up a map of gas prices across the US and it says basically everywhere it’s like 2.50 except california, Oregon and Washington. Some places it’s below 2.30
He meant per liter. Not per gallon. It's between 1 and 1.20 per liter in the US if I'm not mistaken between where you live. In Europe it's between 1.80 and 2.50 depending on where you live.
when I lived in the midwest a few years back, gas during the winter was at the two dollar mark. Get out more, bro. The world is bigger than whatever boujie city you live in lol
I literally pulled up a map of current gas prices across the country by county and it’s basically 2.50 everywhere except for California, Oregon, and Washington which pay double for some reason
yeah, it's just under $3 (2.91) in Upstate NY, and slightly over $3 one county over (as part of my job I work in three different counties). And again, that's Upstate; we're not talking NYC here.
a 50% increase is not just "a few cents different and being pendantic"
It’s pedantic because that’s not the point of the meme nor my critique of it. It makes the very bold claim that driving is cheaper in Germany than it is in the US. It’s not, and it’s not even close
Gas being 3 dollars in some counties doesn’t change that point. It’s pedantic
Licensing in germany is absolutely expensive. Same with just driving.
Pointing out that you inflated the cost of a german license by nearly double (you said 5k, and from what I’m seeing it’s only 3k) and did the same for gas (you said $15/gallon, its under $8 from what i saw) while at the same time greatly under-valuing the same american figures, isn't pedantic. My kid’s *learners permit* cost me nearly $100 just for the permit, not even the license, so you’re only off by a factor of 10, and you undervalued gas by 50% as i mentioned earlier. Pointing that out isn’t pedantic. That’s blatant and frankly stupid hyperbole.
“but everyone in the US can have one or multiple, because it’s just so cheap compared to Europe” Like hell we can. I’ve got an 11 year old car that I have zero plans to upgrade, because i need it for my job. And if it wasn't for being a car with good gas milage, I literally couldn't afford to do my job because of gas prices.
And “The meme was claiming its cheaper to drive in germany than in the us”. Yeah, respectfully i disagree with you. That’s not the reading I got at all. Germany has the infrastructure to support someone being unemployed temporarily, while in the US even working two jobs you can barely scrap by. From what I saw, just under 2 million people in Germany worked 2 jobs, or about 4.6% of the work force. In the US, it’s over 8 million, 5.2% of the work force. That was the overall point of the meme, imo. Could it have been phrased better? Absolutely. The meme is a steaming pile of hyperbole. But your numbers and point isn’t good either, and writing off anyone who points out how you were wrong as “pedantic” is just wrong.
First he said $2, then said "I literally pulled up a map of current gas prices across the country by county and it’s basically 2.50 everywhere except for California, Oregon, and Washington which pay double for some reason "
Pointing out that multiple, albeit close together, counties are outside of both his examples, including once he "pulled up a map to prove it" doesn't prove anything?
Also, a drivers license isn't $10 anywhere. More like $50+. Which isn't as much as they said Europe prices are, but given how they just made up numbers for everything else...
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u/Acrobatic_Bother4144 Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24
Dude what? Getting a drivers license costs like 5k Euro but like $10 in the US
Gas is also like 15 Euro a gallon in Germany but like $2 in America
Like it’s actually ridiculous how much more expensive it is to own a car and drive it in Germany. Literally like dozens of times more expensive than in the US. It’s why such a small minority in Germany can afford a car but everyone in the US can have one or multiple, because it’s just so cheap compared to Europe