platypode comments on High gas prices drive Georgia man to create a "mini car" costing about $3 to fill up

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 48 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Most people don’t have a spare electric drivetrain in their garage, though.

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Do you think most have a gocart?

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[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

No, but most in suburban America have a gas powered lawnmower

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

A lot have gone electric the last decade actually.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

Might just have the old gas powered one laying around then.

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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I have a human-powered one. Cuts just as well, and lawn-mowing days are leg day

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[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Put that engine in your car and every day can be leg day. Call yourself Fredrick Flinstone.

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