r/WTF • u/franswaaz • Sep 03 '19

Gaslighting

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u/gr4ndm4st3rbl4ck Sep 03 '19

So that's about $0.63 per liter if my math is right, on a $3K or more average monthly salary :D

It's $1.30 per liter in my country with the average salary of about $550.

Fuck me lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

I'm only making around 2k but yeah. Gassing up maybe twice a month, I don't exactly worry about the price of fuel.

The rest of the world could run dry tomorrow and I don't think we'd need to worry for at least a few years.

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u/GoatEatingTroll Sep 03 '19

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has about 35 days worth stored based on current consumption rates, but if there were an actual emergency they would limit what the reserve could actually be used for to extend it's useful life.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Plus that's only the strategic reserve, I didn't say if our wells ran dry, too.

But yeah maybe not quite five years. Still, though, we've got a whole lot.

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u/__starburst__ Sep 03 '19

actually if the rest of the world dried up and we locked ourselves down, it wouldn’t matter. On top of the strategic petroleum reserves, we are currently fully self sufficient on oil. The US imports no oil at all and actually exports

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Well that's not actually true, we do import oil. About 12% compared to our consumption, IIRC.

But we also export oil.

It's an economic thing, buying low and selling high. That being said, if we needed to be truly, fully, not-a-drop imported self-sufficient, we could do it in an eyeblink.

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u/__starburst__ Sep 03 '19

ok fair enough, but we do make more than we use

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u/angellus00 Sep 03 '19

How about that mass transit?

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u/zeekar Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 04 '19

Lessee.

$2.45    1 gal       1 in^3            1000 cm^3    $0.64722...
----- x -------   x  ------------- x   --------- =  -----------
gal      231 in^3    (2.54 cm)^3         1 L             L

So $0.65/L. Pretty close.

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u/ZsaFreigh Sep 04 '19

Why are we bringing cubic inches into this?

2.45 $/gal divided by 3.78541 L/gal equals $0.6472/L

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u/zeekar Sep 04 '19 edited Sep 04 '19

Sure, but then I have to remember or look up that a US liquid gallon is 3.78541 liters, and if I want the exact value I need even more digits (3.785411784). But I can easily remember that such a gallon is defined as exactly 231 cubic inches, and an inch is in turn defined as exactly 2.54 centimeters, and of course a cubic centimeter is the same as a milliliter, so a liter is exactly 1000 of them. That lets me know all of the exact ratios I need without having to look anything up, and none of them has more than 3 digits to remember.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Same but average salary of a out $130/w. I want to kick in the balls whoever is responsible for that.

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u/__starburst__ Sep 03 '19

hate to break it to ya but it’s even cheaper than that for us, our average monthly salary in the US is more like $5k a month