Post here if you are, and your country and approximate location if you can.
Edit: I didn’t want to make the post subject pedantic and need a [serious] tag, lol.
E2: ok, looks like a local hiccup for that station. Kinda on edge, there are going to be shortages. Just don’t know when. Gas here is hitting $4/gal at some stations. Mostly close to $3.90 at the rest. We were paying $2.65 when this started.
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I’ll go first. One of our local gas stations is out of premium gas. It may not seem like a big deal but one of our cars is a plug-in electric that also has a gas motor that requires premium. While it’s only one station now, It’s likely a direct result of US action in Iran. I think it’s just the leading edge of problems to come.
Northeast US.
What car is it? I doubt it really requires premium fuel. It’ll probably run better on premium. But I doubt any non enthusiast naturally aspirated car would 100% require premium.
It’s a turbocharged engine on a PHEV Mini. This car is finicky AF.
What were they thinking bothering with a turbo on a PHEV!?
The e motor could provide all the torque fills that a turbo has, and since it’s already there, all adding a turbo does is add weight and moving party’s to fail.
I’ve sadly started to hate bmw for the last decade or so, and its choices like this that reinforce my opinions.
That said, if it has a working knock sensor and you keep the rpm and loads down, the next lower octane shouldn’t result in anything but the motor pulling timing, and reduced power at high loads and rpm.
IIRC the electric motor in these types of cars is not designed to operate at high speeds, so it’s purely a gas car on highways.
Turbos can and are very often used to increase efficiency. You’re extracting waste gasses to compress air and overall it’s a net gain. Especially if it’s being run at more constant load, such as highway cruising or charging an EV battery.
Regional Australia (New South Wales).
Petrol prices are the highest I’ve ever seen. I guess that’s true everywhere.
But also, on Weds when we went to Canberra we drove past two petrol stations with their signs turned off (suggesting they were completely out) — one in the city and one in the country. I’ve never seen that before. The country station was back on when we passed again a couple of hours later.
I have a shortage of friends.
A shortage of shawtys?
A famine of friends?
yes, Australia, critical thinking and a lack of non stupid people ate lacking
alas, it’s ever been thus as opined by Donald Horne in his iconic 1964 book
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Perth, Australia.
Fuel is expensive, but still available.
Some rural areas have been running out.
Main thing the world is short of is fast moving lead in an orange turds head.
I lived in Perth for seven years. That place is about as far away from everywhere as you can for a city.
Not related to the middle east but the cyclone, we will see the price of fruit like bananas be sky high if available at all.
Canada, gas prices went up 50%
Cheapest toilet paper.
It’s already begun.
I wish I could delete this comment lol.
The moment people start making this comment on the internet it will be over.
UK, petrol over $4/gal is very normal here. Converting units/currencies it looks like it’s over 9USD/gal here and the price hasn’t moved much yet due to the war.
I didn’t buy petrol anyway so it really hasn’t effected me in any way. By far the worst is SSD and RAM prices and that generally seems to follow global trends. If this kills AI bullshit and components become reasonable then it seems like a good trade off.
Water, ram and hard drives.
Yeah. For sure. Bought some stuff off marketplace, even used is expensive.
Was having a hard time finding frozen fish the other day, but it was because the store was in the process of putting out new freezers and they were waiting to stock until the freezers were ready.
Edit Almost forgot! Our clothes dryer died, and despite the fact that a) it’s less than a year old and b) it’s under warranty, Maytag is unable to supply the control board needed to repair it. Instead, they are replacing the entire dryer.
We have been trying to get it fixed since January.
Frozen, uncooked chicken has disappeared from HEB in San Antonio
I used to be 5’5, now I’m 5’4. Shrinkflation is real people!
From where I stand, there shurely seems to be not much hope left…
Please go to !hopeposting@lemmy.world and feel better.
Thanks mate. Not so much personal desperation, rather the global gloom that overwhelms everybody that keep up with current events
