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.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....
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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. -
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 cook
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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
How are we supposed to flee from the scary brown people without a car? Ummm... I mean have freedom to choose our schools for our children, or something like that. -
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.
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@blogdiva I still use the grocery store test: no matter the price of gas, try to find a beverage that’s cheaper, litre for litre… I mean, bottled water? WATER? Even apple juice is cheaper…
@GrumpusNation @blogdiva and oil is a non-renewable resource, whereas apple juice literally grows on trees.
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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 amen. When are you running for office because killing the suburbs is on my agenda, too!
The only draw back with $20/gal gas prices is that if oil is expensive then coal isn’t and that is a problem.
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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'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.
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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
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 -
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 We need (t(ele/rans)porter/portal)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.@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.
