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Prices of USA is like in Russia, while in Europe we are paying 10dollars a gallon. Stop whining.
I remember this exact same post when Biden was president… oh wait, no I don’t.
Magas got mad at him for pressing the “raise gas prices” button when Russia decided to invade The Ukraine.
All the reading beyond this point was oppositional research.
The problem isn’t that prices are going up. The problem is we’re not paid anywhere near what we should be.
AKA The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
It’s both. We’re not getting paid the full value of our labor, annual wage cuts are the default, and the only safe ways to save require buying into that same system of oppression.
The problem isn’t any of those things. The problem is that there isn’t enough affordable housing, and not enough housing period. We’re literally in a near-global housing crisis. Everything else would be fine if that wasn’t the case.
Wages are double what they used to be when gas was $2/gallon. So $4/gallon shouldn’t be a problem.
The problem is housing, followed by grocery. And in some areas, followed by energy.
Gas isn’t even on the list. It only feels as bad as it does because of everything else.
Not that it couldn’t be cheaper.
…And not like any country is selfless with their natural resources.
I don’t strongly disagree; housing is one of those safe places to invest in our own oppression.
I would like to propose a solution…
And also the system of global exploitation that gave us cheap goods because we oppressed the global south into accepting low wages (aka imperialism) has reached a point where the capitalists are extracting diminishing returns. This means they have to turn their gaze towards home and exploit us more in order to keep increasing their profit margins.
If “Calvin’s dadism” was a cult, I’d be in it
For the damage it’s doing, fossil fuels should be several times more expensive to compensate in climate change costs and reduce demand.
There should be a carbon tax, but whoever signs it will be the least popular president in history. One of the flaws of democracy is that sometimes the thing that really needs to happen is unpopular with the moronic citizenry that can’t understand why it needs to happen.
There are countries who already do have a CO2 tax.
Yup, they’ve deferred paying the full balance on extraction, refining, and burning for a century. Why would they start now?
You ain’t wrong
Diminishing returns on wine. Have too much and you’ll piss yourself at the table effectively raising the price per km traveled to infinity.
How much is lsd or shrooms in comparison? Im sure he will have a hell of a long trip for the price.
Wow… I don’t get this guy. He never had $0.92/gal gas?
As much as it pains me to have this thought, there are adults running around today who were very small children in 2004.
Remember when gas went up a little bit under Biden and these motherfuckers never shut the fuck up about it? I am sick of this shit
Talking points have been distributed
Oh shit is this not a joke?
agents deployed.
Hahaha Michelle Maxwell had a 4 out of 5 chance of getting the stressed word correct and completely bombed. Impressive stuff. Almost any other of those words would have been better than ‘of’.
lol yeah. I don’t think any of those words need stressing though. Works fine without it. 😄
Huh, they let Betty be a lesbian.
How can you tell from this picture?
“Wife”
Betty might have transitioned. They go to the men’s room too.
If Betty wasn’t a bot they’d be so upset right now.
I’m a trans man I’m immune to this joke
Beep Boop beep I keep hearing people complain…
Saya terus-menerus mendengar orang mengeluh…
My bike gets like 100 miles per gallon of oatmeal
density of oatmeal (source (although this is with sugar)): 693 kg/m³ = 0.69 kg/L
nutritional value of oatmeal (source): 297 kJ/100g = 2970 kJ/kg
(oatmeal with sugar and stuff: 4600 kJ/kg, same source as the first one)
typical leisurely cycling energy expenditure (source): 80 kJ/km
bicycle oatmeal-efficiency: (2970 kJ/kg * 0.69 kg/L) / (80 kJ / km) ≈ 25.62 km/L ≈ 3.9 L/100km ≈ 60 mpg
bicycle oatmeal-efficiency with sugary oatmeal: (4600 kJ/kg * 0.69 kg/L) / (80 kJ/km) ≈ 39.68 km/L ≈ 2.5 L/100km ≈ 93 mpg
please do correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like the math pretty much checks out on that one!
That can’t be good for the fuel injector.
You can brush your teeth if there’s a lot of sugar.
You need to mix it with something. Once you add water or milk its great. It usually gets stuck when you add it dry.
Just don’t put any additives or you will blow up the exhaust
Similar with mine. 80km a week in cycling to work.
Herb grower eh. I use mine to get around town when Ive been uh… Growing herb…
Used to be a 20 buck can into town and 20 back. Saved hundreds on cabs, hundreds on fuel, got in better shape
Nothing beats bicycle when it’s comes to efficiency.
Interestingly, it depends on how you measure efficiency.
Per unit of sunlight that hits a patch of land, solar panels capture about 20% of the sunlight that hits. Charging a vehicle battery and powering the motor might result in a 25% loss, so that we’re basically converting about 15% of the sunlight into movement.
In contrast, plants convert only about 1-2% of sunlight energy through photosynthesis. Feeding that plant biomass to be converted into stored energy in an animal, and then that animal moving its muscles to propel a vehicle, we might be talking a huge loss there, too, so that we’re looking at less than 1% of the sunlight being turned into motion.
If you want to most efficiently convert sunlight into movement, bypassing any and all biological processes is probably the most efficient thing to do.
So I should start eating solar panels then?
There was a startup that made a splash last year by claiming they had a process that could manufacture organic compounds, including edible fats resembling animal-derived butter, out of nothing but carbon dioxide, water, and energy, through a Fischer-Tropsch process.
I could see a world where people on a spaceship more efficiently use their sunlight to create synthetic edible macronutrients rather than using that same sunlight to try to grow edible plants.
Yeah but plants just like magically appear, solar panels need raw materials, a factory and all the infrastructure that comes with that. Add that mess into your equations.
I feel - apple grows on a tree in my garden, I eat apple, I power bicycle is more efficient than - I mine raw materials, I build factory, I bring all raw materials to factory, I power factory and produce solar panels, I put solar panels in field, hook them up to the power grid, and then think about charging my ebike which also took way more raw materials than a bicycle due to lack of battery and I would still need to power myself.
Add that mess into your equations.
What percentage of your calorie intake comes from industrialized agriculture, where planting, growing, and harvesting the food uses a significant amount of fossil fuels and fertilizers and other inputs that come from industrialized production?
Home grown and locally grown food is pretty good for flavor, but not particularly efficient with calories.
If only you were driving a normal sized car, the same amount of gas would take you twice as far.
You don’t understand, i need a big truck so otger people don’t think i’m gay and assume i can afford my car. That 5k check from tge pedophile better come soon.
I have a Hyundai Elantra that gets the same fuel economy
Exactly, 30 miles for $4 is Prius-level cost per distance.
I had the same engine in a truck and a car. The car went 33% further per gallon.
A current model year prius is ~3,250lbs / ~1,500kg and only gets 54mpg highway - what normal sized cars are you thinking of that will get you 60mpg without hypermiling?
Diesel cars (not trucks) have done 60 highway mpg for 2 decades now. The Prius isn’t a very efficient vehicle on the highway, it’s better suited for urban driving where the electric motor and regen help save a bunch of fuel.
Yes, there absolutely are a small handful of diesel cars that get 60mpg or more stock! And if we’re doing alternate powertrains, my EV gets an equivalent to ~130mpg. But since this conversation is about gasoline it’s not really… relevant.
Also, what? The prius is an incredibly efficient vehicle on the highway. The 2026 prius averages 53 mpg city, 54 highway.
Which weighs more, a gallon of gold or a gallon of feathers? /s
Psshh you won’t trick me. They weigh the same.
Pushing £2/litre here and I am still waiting for air quality to improve. Maybe £5/litre is necessary.
Higher prices for most with reductions on red diesel could possibly be a good compromise.
You don’t need a fucking SUV to go to the corner shop 500m away.
the corner shop 500m away
A lot of Americans live 30 minutes from the nearest real grocery store.
But yeah they still don’t need a lifted truck to go there. It’s not like the cashiers at the Wal Mart Super Center are going to be impressed by their Carolina Squat lifted white pavement princess, but that’s what they insist on driving.
30 minutes is cycling to another town here. Or if you want to drive during rush hour, it gets you half way down the main road.
That’s how the US is in certain metro areas. In the boonies there are hundreds of miles of rural back roads where people drive 60mph during rush hour.
Metro? We don’t even have a train station here. Would have to cycle to another town for that, or take a bus/ferry.
I didn’t say you lived in a metro area. I said those distances and travel times are only realistic in the parts of the US people consider very densely populated.
