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Bud on July 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works

Let's remember that it's actually cheap fuel that has its price maintained "artificially", and not the other way round.

rootusrootus on July 2, 2020 [–]

More than half the retail price at the pump in much of western Europe is tax. If you take the base price of the fuel in both Europe and the US, exclude taxes, then the price isn't actually all that far apart.

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