am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke.
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@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)
@c_merriweather @blogdiva 65000 people is enough to have a decent public transport system, and a network of cycle tracks, and local shops you could have visited twice a week or more often to pick up bird feed, as would happen in most civilised countries.
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@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@RedRobyn @yugthebug @blogdiva which is even worse. America took the imperial units, retained them when Everyone Else changed, but also developed slight changes to Some of them over the years to make them even incompatible with the system they were based on, and then defined them BY the VERY SYSTEM they are resisting (the US definition of the inch is in mm, the US gallon in litres).
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@Andres4NY
I know it is possible, but I would rather not haul feed sacks on any kind of bicycle on my local roads. It may work on level roads, but not here.Our roads are heavily traveled, 2 lane mountain roads, have 55 mph speed limits, along with tourists (who can't drive) and trucks. It just not my idea of a safe ride on any day. Plus it is 10 miles to the town. (Cars are not even safe, I had a deer jump in front of my car twice here, for $$$$ repair costs.)
My solution is to combine my trips, and only go into town once or twice a week, as necessary. And avoid wildlife.
@c_merriweather @blogdiva Yep! Safe route makes all the difference. I was doing that in hilly Seattle (8mi round trip), but there were plenty of safe residential streets to ride on. Wouldn't do it on highways/stroads.
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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 because the #LowDensity, Euclidean Zoning is inherently #CarCentric and the refusal of (not just "European", but basically "Rest of the World" - Style) #MixedUse densefication, walkability and #PublicTransport is inherently bad.
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@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
@AccordionBruce @blogdiva I have heard it whisper it's possible to turn off AI search 🤫
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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 Yeah, Farmers - espechally in #Germany - need to STFU re: their subsidized #Diesel…
They don't pay € 2,289/l for that!
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@blogdiva $7 a litre is unheard of, not now, not in the '90s. Current prices are around €2 a litre. In the ‘90s, the price in Italy (for example) was below L.1000 a litre, that is the equivalent of €0.45.
I'm referring to "100% petrol like it's sold in the USA", whatever that means.
https://de.theglobaleconomy.com/Italy/diesel_prices/
she confused lira with dolans, eventually
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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 $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva don't be naive, it was caused by soft American libtards welcoming brown terrorists to our idyllic small towns in red states.
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@blogdiva For comparison, gas in my corner of Europe would be about 13.5 USD/gallon right now.
(This is in NL, arguably one of the pricier markets but not the most expensive by far. 2.33€/L E95 gasoline = 11.8 €/gal (4.5L) = 13.56$.
For the last few years it would have been closer to 10$, so this isn't much of a spike yet. I expect prices will keep rising as the supply constraints start to hit.)@moritz_negwer @blogdiva
I got caught out on this: US gallon is only 3.785l. While 8 pints in a US gallon, 16.65 imperial fl/oz per US pint. -
@blogdiva For comparison, gas in my corner of Europe would be about 13.5 USD/gallon right now.
(This is in NL, arguably one of the pricier markets but not the most expensive by far. 2.33€/L E95 gasoline = 11.8 €/gal (4.5L) = 13.56$.
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.)@moritz_negwer @blogdiva I expect fuel prices to hit €3 by April 15th and €5/l by May 1st because the last Tankers pre-blockade will unload at Europoort in April.
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116317903062268245
- People need to not just sue the shit out of the #Trump-Regime, but I'm shure at some point some folks will consider taking up the (allegedly Iranian) offer of $25M for his head… (One that I cannot confirm and I am confident was actually a scam!)
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