Clerk in the Orlando Mobil store: “Man, it’s weird that no one is taking advantage of our free diesel.”
Comrade Trump is doing a great job ending the American empire
We are close to the 1970s gas crisis days. People lining up for blocks and a flag system to tell you if they even have gas to sell. Is any of this necessary? Of course not.
What we didn’t have in the 1970s were viable alternatives to vehicles with combustion engine. Ok, the US is currently totally missing the transition but the rest of the world isn’t.
Detroit got caught with 8mpg tanks, Japan came in with small efficient hatchbacks.
Amsterdam put its transformation into another Detroit, just below sea level, to a sudden halt and reversed course 180° to the bike centric place it is today. Interestingly though Japan is lagging behind dramatically with EVs as well. They are stuck in early hybrid age, ie petrol light.
IIRC Japan was betting on hydrogen fuel cells when the move away from ICE started. That could explain why their EVs are behind the curve.
Not sure about Japan but Toyota sure was
My mom want to buy an hybrid when she never do more than 100km and can recharge at home 🤦 go electric !
You don’t even need any special EV for that. Even one of the new Renault Twingos for 20k EUR would do. If you want to pay less, get one of the 2nd hand EVs, as long as they are not too old, they’ll do it too.
Yeah she’s looking into 2nd hand but we have no ideas which ones are good 🤷
Reminder that motorcycles get 50-150 mpg.
But can’t carry much. 4 people in a hybrid use far less fuel.
But can’t carry much
Skill issue. I’ve seen washing machine+dryer+refrigerator on the back of a 125cc quite a few times, and I’m comfortable riding at highway speeds with 2 checked-bag size suitcases in my side racks and a backpack and carry-on suitcase behind me.
4 people in a hybrid use far less fuel.
4 people on 1 bike uses less fuel than 4 people in a hybrid, its extremely common here in SEA.
But if most of your trips involve transporting 2 or more passengers, then bikes aren’t so attractive.
I’ve been meaning to get my class M and buy a EV bike, guess I’m scheduling classes today probably
My Kia Rio gets 43 mpg on average, and I’m feeling the pain on gas prices. Definitely gonna want to find a motorcycle closer to 150 than 50.
You’re probably looking at a 125cc that takes 20 seconds to get up to highway speeds.
Gas stations RUNNING out of Gas during a Government COMPLETELY AND FULLY CONTROLLED by Republicans is BIDENS fault!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
- Thanks Obama
Well yeah, but that’s tradition
Illegal immigrants and lazy Mexicans are the reason you didn’t get promoted to foreman, not the fact you routinely show up to the job site hungover or on drugs
Yet they are building a FUCKTON of gas stations in my town. I seriously think theres 1 every single block, sometimes 2. And building more more more more. Every single new fucKing building is a gas station. WHY. Destroying wetlands and deforesting and taking fields from farmers, for gas stations we won’t be able to use in 10 years. I want to scream but I don’t know who at.
Oh and we have record storms and flooding every year now. And drought. WONDER WHY.
The gas stations probably need to install new signs that will display four digits so they can charge over $10 per gallon
You just put a 1 to the left of the sign.
Surely you will never need any other numbers there.
Surely not. Nope, they’ll never need more than 3 digits…. Wait, what’s that?
I would have at least hoped they’d take the opportunity to get rid of the asinine 1/10¢, but apparently not!
Nah. They’ll just do what the rest of the world does, and start charging per litre. Your 12.399/g is now only 3.109/L.
Lol… Would be quite funny if this is how US changes to metric system
Friend, I don’t think you understand just how much we hate the metric system. We’d stop driving before we measured fuel in liters.
It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)
But… yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.It’s also the actual basis for our non metric system. Since 1959.
International Yard and Pound
It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)> Dollars and cents!
But you will start selling in quarts.
The temporary solution in 1980s Germany, when prices climbed over 1 DM/l, was to charge per 0.5 l. So they might charge per 0.5 gal now.
they might charge per 0.5 gal now.
Please, please, please. Per pottle. Of course.
Oh sorry. Of course. Please forgive my ignorance. I wasn’t aware of that.
Lol!! I use metric daily, and I’m 100% with you on this hahahaha
Getting there for sure. $8.something a gallon for diesel around here.
It’s $7.50+ here in Eastern Washington. I drove to Idaho for the slightly better rate and still cost almost $200 to fill up my truck. I’m ever so thankful that I have kept it in good running condition and basically bulletproofed the 7.3l engine. I got 18.5 mpg and that’s really good. But still, I don’t think I can keep it up for long. It’s a damn shame.
Freight trains use diesel locomotives.
Everything is about to get a lot more expensive.
You’re not going to believe what transport trucks run on…
Masturbation and the broken dreams of 3rd world children? Seems sustainable to me.
Don’t forget methamphetamine!
Yup.
You know, I didn’t think my aunt and uncle were woke, but maybe they were actually accelerationists that voted for Trump to destroy American hegemony from the inside
Setting aside how shitty this all is for the global populace, it’s a hell of way to completely withdraw the US from the middle east (or whatever the preferred name for the region is currently). All US bases decimated, including 5th Fleet saying they are not getting back to their main base in Bahrain anytime soon.
It’s wasteful, deadly, and beyond stupid, but ending (maybe) US military presence in the region as the end product? That’s wild, and a welcome outcome. If only.
Some gas stations “out of diesel”
If Newsweek isn’t prepared to state they’ve independently confirmed some gas stations are out of diesel, they probably shouldn’t print this article at all. What a strange quote
RTFA
Individual stations can temporarily run short for a number of reasons, including high local demand or delays in fuel deliveries. GasBuddy’s nationwide data indicates that, at least for now, the incidents being shared online remain isolated. For now, there is an increasingly tight and expensive diesel market, but not a nationwide wave of gas stations running out of fuel.
I saw one out in Texas. If there’s no diesel in Texas, we’re gonna have a bad time
That reminds me, I need to change my oil. Fuck.
I did this on our gas suv about a month ago. 5L jug of oil was $58 CAD. 💀.
The week after I went and bought an EV. Works out to around $300 per month for a new SUV by the time you math the gas prices.
I just changed mine last week. I need better ramps, the ones I got from oriellys are shit.
i just plug my car into the outlet in the garage and charge from the solar panels on the roof.
no oil to change either.
I wish. I can’t afford an electric car, or a house for that matter
Look on the bright side. Shit like this makes nuclear power and electric cars sound pretty good.
Get your woke lib ideas out of here!
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