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“Thanks Obama”
It’s ironic that a guy who hates “chy-nah” so much and wants to “drill”, has likely done more to push Chinese cars worldwide, and EV’s than any other president in history.
Whilst quality of life has dropped, he’s also done an amazing job in pushing the AUD upwards vs USD too
However the real transformation we gotta do is to move to more public transportation (which can also be electrified) but these budgets are all gone under Trump.
Why? Couldn’t we embrace rail and renewables and electrify every car?
Oh we have to do exactly that, but my point is that just electrifying the cars is far from enough. We need fewer cars, not just have them be electric.
The candidate who proposes a nationwide high speed rail network with deep rural access has my vote.
It’s only just begun…
Your local ambulance and fire rescue’s budget literally just doubled. And mine, my machines all run on diesel which is now 6.49/ gal where I live. A lot of my budgets were written months ago
Can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics behind pinning this on Obamna or Sleepy Joe.
In Austria 80% more
If you do the conversion, gasoline is about 8.22 per gallon in Europe.
11.26 USD per gallon here in the Netherlands.
My daughter is paying (really I am) a bit more than that in Munich, they hit 12 a coulple of weeks ago for diesel.
She’s either lying, or you calculate in British gallone, instead of American gallon. Diesel never passed 3€/L in Germany, not even close.
€3 is $3.54 per liter, a gallon is 3.8 liters math that out and you get $13.45 per gallon.
Its entirely possible that she’s lying but I distinctly paying €2.90 during COVID for our two diesel cars.
I just checked Ich-tanke and it looks like it dropped over the last couple of weeks, on the site it say 2.01 so now we’re at $9 a gallon
To be completely fair to the americans complaining about fuel prices though. European prices are by design. Prices increasef in the 70’s during the oil crisis, and afterwards we kept them high through taxation. We did that to give a larger incentive to oil reducing behavior like buying a car that drives longer per liter, or insulating your house better. This was to reduce our dependance in oil so another crisis wouldn’t hit as hard.
USA didn’t do that, because USA has/had plenty oil to support itself, and those regulations would mean less oil sales and thus less money for the giant oil companies. Wouldn’t wanna take money out of the wallets of the poor rich cunts right?
So in short, Europe voted for less oil dependance because we don’t produce a lot of it, USA voted for more, because their rich cunts have always controlled the government.
The taxes thing is important thing to realize, in the US it’s like maybe 20cents a gallon and in parts of Europe it’s 7 dollars a gallon.
and they are desperate to control it even more due to iran war, causing strain on supply.
9.09 USD per gallon for diesel in Finland. Luckily the government pays my fuel.
EU, gas is more expensive but they have a reasonable enough transportation system in most countries, of course like long distances you might need car instead.
$10.29/gallon at the cheapest gas station in my city.
why would Obama do this?! 😭
You got it all wrong. This is Bidens fault!
“OBAMNA”
Thanks Obanma!!!
Remember all the “I did that” stickers? Yeah… those assholes are oddly quiet now.
The same ones who harassed and terrorized drag queens for being groomers, they’re outside the white house protesting the orange turd for and his cronies for being kid-diddlers right…right?
Okay, but on the plus side we’re hardly talking about the Epstein files so I think we can chalk this up as a win for America.
its by design, he already tried 2 other assasination attempt after the iran war started affect EVERYONE now to distract people. Todd blanche being suddenly replacing Pam bondi he needed a distraction from that, plus other portions of the files are being exposed. the MSM keeps reporting on his gaffes though as if its a “shocking thing” the resistance grifters arnt helping either, like BTC,etc. Some in the DNC doesnt want it released either.
Paraphrasing Cory Doctorow, Comrade Trump is hormuzing the world into the full Gretacene.
Electric vehicle and solar panel enjoyers:
Wild that when i use this gif in relation to tech layoffs and AI i get wild amounts of downvotes.
Unfortunately, gasoline woes will ripple through nearly every commodity or grocery that you partake in. If you’re truly off grid, it probably won’t do much. But as long as you shop from grocery stores or buy things period, you’re gonna feel it a little. Not as much as a gas-guzzler, but you’ll feel it.
I mean I’m just piss posting and I’m deeply concerned for how it is going to impact my community, which is extremely impoverished and working class, and often have super long commutes.
It’s not just gas. Any plastic.
My job is already seeing disposable gloves explode in price
Not any plastic. For example, much of the ethylene used to make PE is a common byproduct of natural gas production, that occurs in such quantity that producers almost have to pay to have it taken away.
Perhaps ethane based plastics not affected very much in the USA at least. Its a “waste product” from shale gas extraction. There are laws on how much producers can burn, and if they don’t have a home for it they have to stop extracting methane. So they price it so cheap its essentially paying people to take it so they can go back to extracting methane. The USA produces 40% of the worlds ethane. This is also one of the reasons plastic recycling isn’t financially feasible here. Ethane is just too cheap to make virgin plastic vs the costly process of collection and recycling of non-virgin plastics. source
Half of the modern world is reliant on petroleum based products. Gasoline and Diesel are about 70% of modern crude oil usage, but that remaining 30% is everywhere.
the Amish and the Sentinalese laughing at us rn
The sentinelese are always laughing at us.
You know that meme about how we’re meant for eating fruit on the beach but instead we have to pay taxes? I’d violently defend my ability to opt out of that as well.
Idk modern medical care and pain relief is also pretty nice. There are some pretty brutal ways to die that we can avoid with modern technology
Id take basic medicine over *all this. *
im seeing in cali, its 6+$/gallon from shell stations. and 5-5.9 everywhere else.
Have the day you voted for wankees.
Yankee DoodleWankee DiddleYankee DoodleWankee Diddle🎶
Wankee Diddle’s Epstine Files
Donnie’s such a phony
“Fifa Peace Prize” ain’t wort much
Your gas bill’s testimony
