am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva For comparison, gas in my corner of Europe would be about 13.5 USD/gallon right now.
(This is in NL, arguably one of the pricier markets but not the most expensive by far. 2.33€/L E95 gasoline = 11.8 €/gal (4.5L) = 13.56$.
For the last few years it would have been closer to 10$, so this isn't much of a spike yet. I expect prices will keep rising as the supply constraints start to hit.) -
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Petrol is priced by the liter in Europe, and when I was there in the 90s, the per-liter price was higher than our per-gallon price. They used the revenue to build public transportation. I've been saying since then we should as well.
Start with a one dollar a gallon gas tax and increase it a dollar a year indefinitely.
@Uair @blogdiva I think that's a good idea; but do keep in mind certain problems; like people who live in places where there is no public transport, and it makes no sense to have any. And a dollar a year sounds like it'd be reasonable, but it's very not. After just 10 years you've made purchasing fuel go from somthing you can afford to do to being somthing that is an ultra-luxury, which is again problematic for those for whoem public transit isn't a choice they can make.
This plan could work with the right concessions made though, for those who actually need a car, defined along very specific lines.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva It is already ±$6 in parts of California. I would like more mass transit, but in a county of 65,000 people in the California foothills, one can only expect so much.
I still need some kind of vehicle to transport 40 lb sacks of chicken feed. My birds insist.
(and the two full-size bags of potting soil, 5' plant trellises, and 15 gal pots, waiting to be unloaded, when it stops raining)
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@Uair @blogdiva I think that's a good idea; but do keep in mind certain problems; like people who live in places where there is no public transport, and it makes no sense to have any. And a dollar a year sounds like it'd be reasonable, but it's very not. After just 10 years you've made purchasing fuel go from somthing you can afford to do to being somthing that is an ultra-luxury, which is again problematic for those for whoem public transit isn't a choice they can make.
This plan could work with the right concessions made though, for those who actually need a car, defined along very specific lines.
URBAN PLANNING is completely disregarded in this country to serve the interests of the petromafia.
WHAT PART OF WALKABLE TOWNS don't you do not understand? it would entail ditching suburbanism for urbanism ―something WHITE PEOPLE do not want.
so stop rationalizing the shitshow we have now and start speaking of how to break the car apartheid of suburbanism.
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URBAN PLANNING is completely disregarded in this country to serve the interests of the petromafia.
WHAT PART OF WALKABLE TOWNS don't you do not understand? it would entail ditching suburbanism for urbanism ―something WHITE PEOPLE do not want.
so stop rationalizing the shitshow we have now and start speaking of how to break the car apartheid of suburbanism.
@blogdiva @Uair I'm talking about people like Farmers ya dingus.
It makes no fucking sense to run a bus to the middle of nowhere for not many people. For them, cars are the correct choice. The majority of people I agree, it is not.
I personally take busses and trains everywhere, and yes, I live in a North American City. Canada, specifically, but still NA.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva THIS.
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@blogdiva @Uair I'm talking about people like Farmers ya dingus.
It makes no fucking sense to run a bus to the middle of nowhere for not many people. For them, cars are the correct choice. The majority of people I agree, it is not.
I personally take busses and trains everywhere, and yes, I live in a North American City. Canada, specifically, but still NA.
1. you really haven’t been to other countries, havent you?
2. there should have never been farms so huge that there are no communities within them.
SERIOUSLY,
part of desuburbanizing the USA involves breaking BigAgra.
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1. you really haven’t been to other countries, havent you?
2. there should have never been farms so huge that there are no communities within them.
SERIOUSLY,
part of desuburbanizing the USA involves breaking BigAgra.
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$4, from what I've read, isn't even the tip of the iceberg. Not even the US has the ability to prevent $5, $6, $7 gallons by May.
@johnzajac @blogdiva it’s literally already $5 in Washington state lol. I bike and bus as much as I can but our inter-city transportation sucks so when I have to go out of town I drive and next time I have to do it it’s
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.USA SUBURBS ARE #APARTHEID BY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
there are whole libraries filled with books and studies about how USA suburbs are some of the most totalitarian systems ever created by humans. go look up “islands of totalism”.
suburbs couldn’t exist without the destruction of Native & African American communities and cultures and outright #ecocide in the name of oil.
you don’t come here to tell me how breaking up suburbs isn’t necessary to fight the #petromafia and their fascism.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.The thing about gas is, it's a trap.
Your car uses it up. Kinda like printers and ink. My car has about 97k miles on it, and my fuel stats say my average is about 35 mpg. (I only drive in city traffic, cuz I'm legally blind and can't exceed 45 mph).
97,000 divided by 35 is about 2770 gallons. Using data from the US Energy Information Administration (https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMRU_PTE_STX_DPG&f=W) the average price per gallon for the life of my car is $2.59.
That's $7,175 approximately. And that gas is *gone*. It's like toilet paper - you only use it once. Renewables are like a bidet - you use water, but water is part of a cycle - it can be cleaned and reused.
There's an excellent video about this by Tech Connextras on YouTube called "You are being misled about renewable energy technology," on the Tech Connextras channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I
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USA SUBURBS ARE #APARTHEID BY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
there are whole libraries filled with books and studies about how USA suburbs are some of the most totalitarian systems ever created by humans. go look up “islands of totalism”.
suburbs couldn’t exist without the destruction of Native & African American communities and cultures and outright #ecocide in the name of oil.
you don’t come here to tell me how breaking up suburbs isn’t necessary to fight the #petromafia and their fascism.
@blogdiva Preach!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD. -
@blogdiva @Uair I'm talking about people like Farmers ya dingus.
It makes no fucking sense to run a bus to the middle of nowhere for not many people. For them, cars are the correct choice. The majority of people I agree, it is not.
I personally take busses and trains everywhere, and yes, I live in a North American City. Canada, specifically, but still NA.
@krutonium hey, dingus, people like farmers would actually love public transit busses because they know better than anyone else how expensive gasoline is as they're getting squeezed every which way. They use cars because they don't have a choice, not because it "makes sense" @blogdiva @Uair
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@blogdiva @Uair I'm talking about people like Farmers ya dingus.
It makes no fucking sense to run a bus to the middle of nowhere for not many people. For them, cars are the correct choice. The majority of people I agree, it is not.
I personally take busses and trains everywhere, and yes, I live in a North American City. Canada, specifically, but still NA.
@krutonium @blogdiva @Uair shit, may as well rip up the road too, wasting money on maintaining a road into "the middle of nowhere" must surely be far more costly than keeping a bus running
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USA SUBURBS ARE #APARTHEID BY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
there are whole libraries filled with books and studies about how USA suburbs are some of the most totalitarian systems ever created by humans. go look up “islands of totalism”.
suburbs couldn’t exist without the destruction of Native & African American communities and cultures and outright #ecocide in the name of oil.
you don’t come here to tell me how breaking up suburbs isn’t necessary to fight the #petromafia and their fascism.
@blogdiva
With you, but damn, search engines have become useless for looking up phrases like “Islands of totalism”AI has ruined the web. Flooded it with slop, while muddying search with algorithmic junk
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The thing about gas is, it's a trap.
Your car uses it up. Kinda like printers and ink. My car has about 97k miles on it, and my fuel stats say my average is about 35 mpg. (I only drive in city traffic, cuz I'm legally blind and can't exceed 45 mph).
97,000 divided by 35 is about 2770 gallons. Using data from the US Energy Information Administration (https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMRU_PTE_STX_DPG&f=W) the average price per gallon for the life of my car is $2.59.
That's $7,175 approximately. And that gas is *gone*. It's like toilet paper - you only use it once. Renewables are like a bidet - you use water, but water is part of a cycle - it can be cleaned and reused.
There's an excellent video about this by Tech Connextras on YouTube called "You are being misled about renewable energy technology," on the Tech Connextras channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I
@MannyDexter @blogdiva Yeah, I believe that's the video where he brings up that we could replace all corn farms for ethanol--not corn for food, just the corn we grow to throw ethanol in our gas--with solar panels and supply ALL of the electricity for the ENTIRE United States.
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@lf_araujo @blogdiva @fsinn paid $6.7 the other day. I’m glad I get 45 MPG - in a 45 year old car!
Sometimes I wonder about the kind of fuel efficiency we could have if car makers cared about that instead of stupid features and designs that mean that a steep driveway will cause scraping. -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva this....
