How I feel when I see Americans complaining about gas prices

This is a 3-panel edited boardroom meme comparing relative gasoline (petrol) prices across different global regions, highlighting the unit discrepancy between litres (used in most countries) and gallons (used in the US). In the first panel, the representative for New Zealand/Australia angrily complains that $3.30 per litre of petrol is extremely expensive. In the second panel, the EU representative notes petrol prices in their region exceed €1.71 per litre, the China representative states ¥9.35 per litre is unreasonable, and the US representative dismisses all these complaints as overblown, claiming those prices are cheap compared to the US's $4 per gallon. The final panel shows the enraged NZ/AU representative throwing the US representative out of the office window, as $4 per gallon converts to roughly ~$1.06 per litre, which is drastically cheaper than all the other listed regional prices, making the US's lack of perspective on gas costs the punchline of the joke.

Dialogue

NZ/AU: WHY TF DOES PETROL COST $3.30 PER LITRE. THATS EXPENSIVE AF
EU: I agree, petrol here can be over € 1.71
CHINA: Yea ¥ 9.35 is ridiculous
USA: That's cheap, it's $4 a gallon here

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Regional labels for NZ/AU, EU, CHINA, USA

Overview

This is a 3-panel edited boardroom meme comparing relative gasoline (petrol) prices across different global regions, highlighting the unit discrepancy between litres (used in most countries) and gallons (used in the US). In the first panel, the representative for New Zealand/Australia angrily complains that $3.30 per litre of petrol is extremely expensive. In the second panel, the EU representative notes petrol prices in their region exceed €1.71 per litre, the China representative states ¥9.35 per litre is unreasonable, and the US representative dismisses all these complaints as overblown, claiming those prices are cheap compared to the US's $4 per gallon. The final panel shows the enraged NZ/AU representative throwing the US representative out of the office window, as $4 per gallon converts to roughly ~$1.06 per litre, which is drastically cheaper than all the other listed regional prices, making the US's lack of perspective on gas costs the punchline of the joke.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, as noted in the provided source information, and is a derivative work of the widely used 'boardroom meeting where a speaker throws a dissenting person out a window' meme template. It was created to mock the perceived out-of-touch complaints about gas prices from US consumers, who pay far lower per-litre rates than consumers in many other developed nations, with the added layer of humour coming from the unit conversion difference between gallons and litres that many US consumers may not account for when comparing international prices.

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