And the advantages are being enjoyed by all of us, at least in the US.
If you’re the kind of person who eats food, uses toilet paper and paper towels, and lives inside a building made of lumber, insulation, pipes, and electrical components, those all got to your point of use on a truck.
A large component of the price of fuel is taxes, which are then used for roadway construction and maintenance.
Here in the US (and probably Sweden too), those taxes are not sufficient to pay all of the roadway costs, so tax money from general funds - income taxes, sales/use/vat(?), etc - get diverted to help cover costs.
In reality, the overall cost of fuel is probably very similar. It’s just that the overall cost is more directly reflected in the price shown at the fuel station in Sweden than in the US.
Diesel should cost a lot more, almost all of the road damage is by heavy trucks. Trucking is being subsidized by all of us.
And the advantages are being enjoyed by all of us, at least in the US.
If you’re the kind of person who eats food, uses toilet paper and paper towels, and lives inside a building made of lumber, insulation, pipes, and electrical components, those all got to your point of use on a truck.
most goods in the US today are transported via trucks. most of the whole main-street runs on diesel as well think home services businesses etc.
cost of diesel has a reverb effect across the whole economy.
the shrinkage is felt but won't be truly reflected in the economy. so the government can keep lying about the numbers.
$5.85 a US gallon? Horrendous, you’re up to 70% of what diesel costs in Sweden today.[1]
[1] https://bensinpriskollen.se/dieselpris/
A large component of the price of fuel is taxes, which are then used for roadway construction and maintenance.
Here in the US (and probably Sweden too), those taxes are not sufficient to pay all of the roadway costs, so tax money from general funds - income taxes, sales/use/vat(?), etc - get diverted to help cover costs.
In reality, the overall cost of fuel is probably very similar. It’s just that the overall cost is more directly reflected in the price shown at the fuel station in Sweden than in the US.
So what? People in the US should not feel pressured by it, because you have it worse?