Electric vehicle and solar panel enjoyers:
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 a good thing the government is also actively hostile to any alternative to fossil fuels /s
We could have dulled the impact by converting the grid to renewables 5 years ago, but Joe Manchin thought that might hurt his constituents.
Clearly Joe Manchin only considers the mine owners his constituency…
It’s not just gas. Any plastic.
My job is already seeing disposable gloves explode in price
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. *
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
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.
Better load up on 3D printing filament before it gets worse
Most filament is made of PLA, from corn oil.
I use PETG from recycled water bottles, but when the ceiling rises so does everything below it
Walkers, bikers, skateboarders, public transit riders, …
Yeah a friend of mine was shocked when she asked me about my position on data centers and I basically told her IDGAF. I then had to remind her that I have a 21KW solar array and 45kwh of battery storage. My carbon usage is net negative.
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why would Obama do this?! 😭
You got it all wrong. This is Bidens fault!
“OBAMNA”
Thanks Obanma!!!
That’s “Bah-rock WHO-SAYIN’ Obamna” to you!
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?
drag queens
Funny enough, I think it MIGHT not have been about “protecting the children” at all.
There’s “iRAN up your gas!” Stickers being sold now, and I’m REALLY TEMPTED.
Hahaha, I like this one because it’s also the picture of him pointing and staring directly at an eclipse like the big’ol dumbass he is.
Be sure to buy paper stickers. It cracks me up seeing one with a finger picked corner from some guy trying to take it off.
LOL. Quite mischievous. Although I feel the poor sucker having to remove them would probably end up being another working class person, as funny as it is to imagine someone scratching vainly with rage at a sticker ridiculing their Dear Flawless Leader. 😂
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.
If this continues and people are forced out of their normal single occupant, drive to where they could have walked in 5min habits, I wouldn’t be surprised to see other options pop up. Except not public, but privately owned by one of a dozen billionaires. And you can’t pay by the ride, it’s a monthly subscription to use it. And only white people can sit up front.
I think this idea was floated and partially implemented by Uber already.
People need to realize that it doesn’t need to be profitable. Public transportation is a service with many beneficial side effects and efficiencies. The money you lose providing the service to the public reduces other costs. This is why corporations can’t and shouldn’t take it over.
Just to be clear: it doesn’t need to be free. But it could “lose” money.
Doesn’t need to be profitable but could be turned into something profitable is the guiding principle of the oligarchy. These are the people that don’t think food and water are a basic human right. And their constituency is of the belief that public transportation is a poverty indicator. When my city wanted to build a new bus depot in downtown they showed up en masse to speak against it because they said it would be a magnet for the homeless and crime, drive property values down. It’s a two front fight against the capitalists who know they can exploit it and the section of the general public that considers any use of public funds that don’t directly benefit themselves as theft. Don’t ask them to consider that every person on a bus is one less car in front of them while they’re stuck in traffic, they’re incapable of such abstract thinking.
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.
We can’t give country folk easy access to cities, they might become more tolerant.
not Europe.
How do you get to the rail, and when you get to the destination city, do they have any public transit that isn’t shit?
Yeah he really made my BYD and CATL investments take off.
made my BYD and CATL investments take off.
BYD is not in good financial shape.
The problem is those thin margins and Chinese competition.
Long term they do, and they are the best placed for EVs in the future(especially since Elon went full Nazi at one point)
There are a more of US brands they’ll likely kill off I suspect
My friend worked and Nissan and he expects them to be gone soonish (he now works MG).
And the 4wd repair shop here in Australia doesn’t expect Jeep to be around in 10 years either
Whereas, I think everyone expects byd to be around in 10 years
It’s like he doesn’t understand markets, trade, geopolitics, or just basic business.
Not like we didn’t know that about him before he got elected. The first time.
Netanyahu thanks you for your sacrifice.
He needed the world to be looking elsewhere while he commits further atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon
And sadly, it has been very effective
I sincerely believe that he has serious dirt on Trump, but there’s also the fact that Trump is a fucking moron who is easily manipulated by appeals to his ego and BiBi convinced him that it’d mean he would be remembered as a wartime leader
It’s not helped by the fact that America is, by and large, a stupid country
K but somehow seems less important than the fact that Donald Trump raped and trafficked children and the Republican Party is protecting him.
With that said, sucks it’s going to cost so much to light him on fire after dumping gasoline on him, but it’s worth it. Think of the children.
You meant “more important”, right?
No? I think the fact a child rapist has been allowed to be President is of greater concern than rising gas prices. That between the two gas prices are less important than the fact the child rapist hasn’t been excised from office and preferably killed in such a way as to set an example to the rest of the Epstein Class.
Unless I fucked up that sentiment somehow in my previous post?
I agree that the stuff about trump is more important than gas prices therefore i wanted to correct your first sentence. You meant it seems that people care more about gas prices than the child rapist in power. So you should have written “more”, not “less”, if you meant it the way you just explained.
Okay no, you partially misunderstood/misread my comment. It was written more as a tongue in cheek reply to the Title. Another way to put the first of my original sentence is “K but (Gas Prices) somehow seems less important than…”
I wrote it exactly how I meant it. If I replaced it with more not less it would read out “K but (Gas Prices) somehow seems more important than…” in which case I would be saying the exact opposite of what I mean.
The Original version is correct.
Got it
Ah, yes. Then yes, you did. Explanation tracks with your sentiment, but @seriousslayerguy@lemmy.world 's correction is what you want. Fully written out text you can spot which part of the comparison you took by mistake: somehow the gas prices seem more important news, while they should be less important than the child raping.
Ahh, I see my tongue in cheek tone didn’t make it through in the first part of the sentence. Welp, it happens.
All because of one low IQ pedo and the members of Congress and the public that support that pedo.
And still about 30% of voters…
It’s even worse. It’s 50% of voters. 30% of the population
All because of blackmail controlling that low IQ pedo.
Its just to hasten transition to electric vehicles. 8D chess
I hope it backfires and increases gen z and alpha support for building out public transit. Viable Metro systems in every US city, commuter rail across all 50 states and national high-speed rail system. If we have those things, who cares how much gas costs
Yes. But also, AMERICA!
That should be the default for every country
Donald Trump, greatest agent of the Green Energy Revolution in our lifetime.
Gasoline costs more right now than any time within my time living in the US
You missed the George Bush Jr era highs. $8+/gal in California. Even Houston, Texas pumps were charging north of $6. That was shortly before the 2006 mid-term bloodbath. Mysteriously, prices absolutely tanked just before the election, then rebounded a few weeks after the polls closed - not that it saved anyone.
Don’t worry. The last boat just parked in California and they say they’re good for the next six weeks. So I’m sure everything is going to be fine going forward.
I don’t feel sorry for Americans. You voted this orange turd in. While the rest of the world suffers as well
To be clearly, only about a 1/3rd of us voted for him. And realistically, of the registered voters, only a small percentage can actually influence the outcome by way of being in “swing states”.
But yah, I’m pretty fucking pissed at pensilvanians who wrote in Mickey Mouse because they thought it was funny.
I’m personally not that upset about gas prices going up as I can not afford a car anyways.
You clearly don’t understand how fucked up voting in “the cradle of democracy is.” The American government and the rich will do anything and everything in their power to disenfranchise voters. Just do a little deep dive into how fucking stupid our electoral procedures are and what they are designed to do.
Good. Have the day you voted for.
As an American, I think this is great. I hope it triples.
I’m with you but a little more extreme: I hope Aermica contracts a virus or genetic condition that limits reproduction to .05% of previous so the world can start to heal without nuking us,
Where is Jessica Hyde?
Thanks Obama! – 50% of the voters because propaganda
Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the terrorist attacks on Iran
warThe petro state can eat shit. As someone who works three minimum wage jobs and still comes up with shit this economy is killing me. Trump can eat a bowl of fucking shit and anyone who voted for him should realize they are a fucking asshole.
If our fellow americans, the staunch supporters of our dementia patient pedo pres, could read they would be very upset. Your lazy life isnt hard, you must not work as much as a hard working billionaire, psh. And Ill be one myself someday if my hat is red enough! Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work a 12th job! 4th? I cant read.
