Couldn’t they just ditch the 0? Or is that just a coincidence? In my country they do that.
Hyacin420 on
HAhahahahaha its pretty funny that everyone is paying amounts of money the hardware designers ever thought possible. Such a silly world we live in. /s
quod_sic_doctrina on
I was in the PH in Jan (Cebu). Gas was about $50 a liter 😧
Loki-L on
This is what happens if you don’t future proof your hardware.
This point would have been reached eventually by inflation alone.
We got there faster due to a war in the Middle East.
Who could have predicted that a major war would break out in the Middle East?
Camelsoop on
I was alive to see this happen in Canada
MallardRider on
104 PHP is 1.74 USD per liter
I guess worldwide export prices are heading to the stratosphere.
SpeedDaemon3 on
Philipines prices went full Nadia. Nadia got 10.00 in gymnastics in a time when scoreboards were 3 digits so they dispayed 1.00
JeRazor on
There is potentially the same issue in Denmark for some gas stations that could happen in the near future. Gas stations have electronic signs with space for 4 numbers. 2 for the whole number and 2 for the decimals. However some electronic signs only allow space for a 1 for the first part of the whole number. Current price for diesel is almost 17 DKK per liter. So once it reaches 20 some gas stations will have to find a solution. However it is far from all gas stations in Denmark that are limited that way. But I remember an article about it back from 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and gas prices increased but it didn’t hit 20 at that time.
bflaminio on
As an Old, I remember when this happened in the US when the price first went over a dollar per gallon. One common workaround was stations pricing gas by the half-gallon.
TxDuctTape on
I worked at a gas station here in the states when gas first went over a dollar a gallon in the 80’s. The mechanical pumps could only handle 2 digits. We had to set the price per gallon at half the actual price and double the dollar amount after pumping. (i.e. Gas $1.04, set pump to .52¢, 5 gallons would show as $5.20, we’d charge $10.40)
Ffftphhfft on
US gas stations might have to do this soon if prices go over $9.99/gal
Or just switch to displaying prices in USD per liter, but that would just be too simple and we can’t have that lol
Edit: Not sure why this is being downvoted but switching to USD per liter means that you can continue to show gas prices without significantly modifying the sign or pump displays, so instead of displaying a “1”on signs like the Philippines example for prices over $10.00/gal then you just switch to USD per liter instead. $10.00/gal is $2.64/L, so it’s an easy, cheap, and straightforward solution to keep prices in the existing $x.xx format.
Footinthecrease on
That’s about $6.57 per gallon when converted to gallon and USD
Leetle_Fool on
Over a hundred pesos for a litre? Fuck, that’s brutal.
That’s like 400 pesos per gallon, and 100 pesos is like about $1.60, those are California prices shiet.
ZachMN on
Same thing happened when gas prices first reached $1.00 in the U.S., a loooong time ago.
Dertyoldman on
That’s Philippine peso devide that by 51 and you get the dollar amount per liter.
lookachoo on
Man, this is just sad 😞
aapowers on
This is one of the main reasons the UK swapped to pricing fuel in litres instead of gallons in the 1980s – it wasn’t a legal requirement, but the price was approaching £1 a gallon and the forecourts didn’t want to pay to change all the signs.
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That’s ph peso/ liter?
Uh. It’s creative, but not very funny.
And the funny part is where exactly?
Couldn’t they just ditch the 0? Or is that just a coincidence? In my country they do that.
HAhahahahaha its pretty funny that everyone is paying amounts of money the hardware designers ever thought possible. Such a silly world we live in. /s
I was in the PH in Jan (Cebu). Gas was about $50 a liter 😧
This is what happens if you don’t future proof your hardware.
This point would have been reached eventually by inflation alone.
We got there faster due to a war in the Middle East.
Who could have predicted that a major war would break out in the Middle East?
I was alive to see this happen in Canada
104 PHP is 1.74 USD per liter
I guess worldwide export prices are heading to the stratosphere.
Philipines prices went full Nadia. Nadia got 10.00 in gymnastics in a time when scoreboards were 3 digits so they dispayed 1.00
There is potentially the same issue in Denmark for some gas stations that could happen in the near future. Gas stations have electronic signs with space for 4 numbers. 2 for the whole number and 2 for the decimals. However some electronic signs only allow space for a 1 for the first part of the whole number. Current price for diesel is almost 17 DKK per liter. So once it reaches 20 some gas stations will have to find a solution. However it is far from all gas stations in Denmark that are limited that way. But I remember an article about it back from 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and gas prices increased but it didn’t hit 20 at that time.
As an Old, I remember when this happened in the US when the price first went over a dollar per gallon. One common workaround was stations pricing gas by the half-gallon.
I worked at a gas station here in the states when gas first went over a dollar a gallon in the 80’s. The mechanical pumps could only handle 2 digits. We had to set the price per gallon at half the actual price and double the dollar amount after pumping. (i.e. Gas $1.04, set pump to .52¢, 5 gallons would show as $5.20, we’d charge $10.40)
US gas stations might have to do this soon if prices go over $9.99/gal
Or just switch to displaying prices in USD per liter, but that would just be too simple and we can’t have that lol
Edit: Not sure why this is being downvoted but switching to USD per liter means that you can continue to show gas prices without significantly modifying the sign or pump displays, so instead of displaying a “1”on signs like the Philippines example for prices over $10.00/gal then you just switch to USD per liter instead. $10.00/gal is $2.64/L, so it’s an easy, cheap, and straightforward solution to keep prices in the existing $x.xx format.
That’s about $6.57 per gallon when converted to gallon and USD
Over a hundred pesos for a litre? Fuck, that’s brutal.
That’s like 400 pesos per gallon, and 100 pesos is like about $1.60, those are California prices shiet.
Same thing happened when gas prices first reached $1.00 in the U.S., a loooong time ago.
That’s Philippine peso devide that by 51 and you get the dollar amount per liter.
Man, this is just sad 😞
This is one of the main reasons the UK swapped to pricing fuel in litres instead of gallons in the 1980s – it wasn’t a legal requirement, but the price was approaching £1 a gallon and the forecourts didn’t want to pay to change all the signs.