am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke.

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva it's a but of a tangent but I hate the word "suburb." It's so vague as to be completely useless. It's everything that isn't a major city center but also not wilderness or farmland.

It's how towns like mine justify not providing the public transit and bike infrastructure they should despite having a population density higher than most of Chicago.

[katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva
Auto dealership owners have been the local donors for GOP politicians for decades. They keep us from as much public transportation as they can.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/05/wheeling-and-dealing-how-auto-dealers-put-the-brakes-on-direct-sales.html

[antdude@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva We need (t(ele/rans)porter/portal)s!

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@blogdiva We need a transition out and fast. This government won’t give it to us, though, preferring the havoc they’re creating. But streetcars? Small mass transit combined with as much telework as practicable (including public coworking spaces for those who prefer them)? More local delivery (à la ice, milk, meat trucks of yore, but with the benefit of preorder online)? More gardening collectives by neighborhood to make use of the often-arable soils cities are sited over? These things could be done with the existing structures while we begin pivoting the architecture. The houses aren’t built to last more than a century, we can turn things over in place and mitigate the shock that always ends up crushing the poor first.

[letscallhimsteve@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva " gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre"... Gas it's barely $2.50 per liter in 2026. In the ‘90s, it was under $1 per liter in Europe FYI

[kzodasnowman@spore.social]

@blogdiva $20? Let's go for $40!!!

[abramkedge@beige.party]

@blogdiva In the US it was a 1.5 mile walk to our nearest coffee shop, which was the closest shop of any kind - I walked to the cafe only about three times in more than ten years. I was sick of having to get in the car for every single errand.

When I moved back to the UK, I spent three weeks traveling by bus and train to different towns and cities. I found a perfect walkable place with good transport links and a lively high street, but there are an awful lot of towns with abandoned centres and out of town retail parks with limited if any bus services. Away from the major population centres, it would be difficult to cope without a car.

I'm coming up to three years happily car-free, but the UK could still use more effort revitalising towns and improving public transport links.

I spoke to shop owners in my travels, the main problem that they shared was extortionate shop rents. For tax reasons, it seems the property owners literally do not care if the shop is empty or occupied. I suspect also that the "value" of the building is related to the rent cost - whether or not there are tenants.

Another town (Harlow, where I lived as a kid) used to have a thriving shopping centre and a large busy market. The town council decided to use the market stall space rents as a revenue stream. Within a few years the market was gone. Now, the market square with its almost entirely gutted surrounding shops looks like a set from The Walking Dead.

[cmars@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva It's a zoning problem as well. You can't build or open a corner bodega or cafe in most neighborhoods in the US. That's what makes them deserts.

[yugthebug@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva ️️️ 4 bucks a gallon is fucking cheap, here its like 2.5 dollars a litre

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@c_merriweather @blogdiva Somewhere on one of my hard drives, I have pics of me hauling > 80lbs (two sack of feed plus misc other chicken/duck supplies) by cargo bike

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/116297846609329025

@blogdiva inflation-adjusted!

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@letscallhimsteve not in Italy and Spain. diesel and whatever the one y’all mix with ethanol was cheaper but not 100% petrol like it’s sold in the USA. was shocked when visiting friends out there. they had to hack their cars to run the cheaper stuff.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@cmars yup

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@Andres4NY my fave!

[yugthebug@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva also I cant be bothered converting litres to gallons cause im not an imperial chud so suck it americans

[unevil_cat@uwu.social]

@blogdiva

what are you talking about?

7$/ gallon or liter? not even close. more like a tenth.

1990:

Country | Gasoline | Diesel

Germany | 0.93 | 0.76

France | 0.94 | 0.75

Spain | 0.74 | 0.65

Portugal | 0.77 | 0.66

prices in USD/L

source:

https://
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-statistical-books/-/ks-cp-03-001-3a

while i totally understand your hatred against cars, please keep in mind that most industries worldwide run on gas and diesel.
your shoes, clothes, electronics and most stuff is being imported for two simple reasons: either one country doesnt have the ressources, or simply because its much much cheaper.

do you remeber when the orange face faggot introduced the stage1 tariffs and the price of a playstation has risen by 15 or 20% overnightz?
extrapolate that. onto everything. then you have an vast idea of what youre really asking for

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@yugthebug
But the US doesn't use imperial measurements, they use American Customary Units
Of particular relevance here the US gallon is approximately 3.8 L, compared to the Imperial gallon which is about 4.65 L
@blogdiva

[yugthebug@mastodon.social]

@RedRobyn @blogdiva lol

[unevil_cat@uwu.social]

@yugthebug

you forgot the taxes, on-top.
$4/G is horrible expensive actually

[greenskyoverme@ohai.social]

@blogdiva I don’t think it was 7 dollars per liter in the 90s in Europe. It’s not 7 dollars per liter now.

But it sure has been at least twice the US price at all times.