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[–] 109 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Gas stations RUNNING out of Gas during a Government COMPLETELY AND FULLY CONTROLLED by Republicans is BIDENS fault!

-LITERALLY Republicans!

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well yeah, but that's tradition

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  • [–] 76 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    The gas stations probably need to install new signs that will display four digits so they can charge over $10 per gallon

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Nah. They'll just do what the rest of the world does, and start charging per litre. Your 12.399/g is now only 3.109/L.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Friend, I don't think you understand just how much we hate the metric system. We'd stop driving before we measured fuel in liters.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It’s funny, because the U.S. uses the metric system for a lot of things. (Like soda or street drugs!)
    But.. yeah. For fuel, they’d probably start charging per quart before they tried charging per liter.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Getting there for sure. $8.something a gallon for diesel around here.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    It's $7.50+ here in Eastern Washington. I drove to Idaho for the slightly better rate and still cost almost $200 to fill up my truck. I'm ever so thankful that I have kept it in good running condition and basically bulletproofed the 7.3l engine. I got 18.5 mpg and that's really good. But still, I don't think I can keep it up for long. It's a damn shame.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 month ago
    [–] 50 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Freight trains use diesel locomotives.

    Everything is about to get a lot more expensive.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You're not going to believe what transport trucks run on.....

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You know, I didn’t think my aunt and uncle were woke, but maybe they were actually accelerationists that voted for Trump to destroy American hegemony from the inside

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Setting aside how shitty this all is for the global populace, it's a hell of way to completely withdraw the US from the middle east (or whatever the preferred name for the region is currently). All US bases decimated, including 5th Fleet saying they are not getting back to their main base in Bahrain anytime soon.

    It's wasteful, deadly, and beyond stupid, but ending (maybe) US military presence in the region as the end product? That's wild, and a welcome outcome. If only.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yet they are building a FUCKTON of gas stations in my town. I seriously think theres 1 every single block, sometimes 2. And building more more more more. Every single new fucKing building is a gas station. WHY. Destroying wetlands and deforesting and taking fields from farmers, for gas stations we won't be able to use in 10 years. I want to scream but I don't know who at.

    Oh and we have record storms and flooding every year now. And drought. WONDER WHY.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    Some gas stations "out of diesel"

    If Newsweek isn't prepared to state they've independently confirmed some gas stations are out of diesel, they probably shouldn't print this article at all. What a strange quote

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    We are close to the 1970s gas crisis days. People lining up for blocks and a flag system to tell you if they even have gas to sell. Is any of this necessary? Of course not.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    What we didn't have in the 1970s were viable alternatives to vehicles with combustion engine. Ok, the US is currently totally missing the transition but the rest of the world isn't.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    Detroit got caught with 8mpg tanks, Japan came in with small efficient hatchbacks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (10 children)

    Amsterdam put its transformation into another Detroit, just below sea level, to a sudden halt and reversed course 180° to the bike centric place it is today. Interestingly though Japan is lagging behind dramatically with EVs as well. They are stuck in early hybrid age, ie petrol light.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    IIRC Japan was betting on hydrogen fuel cells when the move away from ICE started. That could explain why their EVs are behind the curve.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Maybe, I think it is more about them having really put their eggs into the back then really innovative weak hybrid segment. BMW after all was also very much into hydrogen, and kept that ambition longer than many alive. Yet BMW has stayed pretty innovative and strong on EV R&D as well. I mean they have not expanded via that route but at least they kept their boat floating and I think the Neue Klasse is really exciting stuff.

    I honestly don't know much about the domestic Japanese car market but it appears to me that there is also very little meaningful regulatory push for EVs, also via subsidies. Of all the regions with a strong traditional car industry it is surprisingly Europe where car manufacturers are the furthest in the transition to EVs. In the US, Tesla aside, which was founded as purely electric car company, the big players are almost regressing back or at least stagnating.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    My mom want to buy an hybrid when she never do more than 100km and can recharge at home 🤦 go electric !

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I've had all 3 (ICE, Hybrid, EV) and by far the EV is the clear winner.

    Even better would be reliable and frequent public transit running on its own infrastructure.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately it's not really a thing outside of big cities

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was in places in Sweden this summer where there was maybe one car every 15 or 20 minutes on the road. They have bus stops for public transportation.

    No you aren't going to build a metro to a farm hundreds of kilometers from a city... but you can still have public transportation if you value that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The problem is how much of france is settled and lived in as well as how far you have to go to find work. I wish we had better infrastructure but it does have a huge cost for how much it has to cover

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    I saw one out in Texas. If there's no diesel in Texas, we're gonna have a bad time

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    RTFA

    Individual stations can temporarily run short for a number of reasons, including high local demand or delays in fuel deliveries. GasBuddy's nationwide data indicates that, at least for now, the incidents being shared online remain isolated. For now, there is an increasingly tight and expensive diesel market, but not a nationwide wave of gas stations running out of fuel.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That reminds me, I need to change my oil. Fuck.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I did this on our gas suv about a month ago. 5L jug of oil was $58 CAD. 💀.

    The week after I went and bought an EV. Works out to around $300 per month for a new SUV by the time you math the gas prices.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Clerk in the Orlando Mobil store: “Man, it’s weird that no one is taking advantage of our free diesel.”

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Look on the bright side. Shit like this makes nuclear power and electric cars sound pretty good.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Everyone is having the day the voted for.

    Good.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Reminder that motorcycles get 50-150 mpg.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    But can't carry much. 4 people in a hybrid use far less fuel.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    But can’t carry much

    Skill issue. I've seen washing machine+dryer+refrigerator on the back of a 125cc quite a few times, and I'm comfortable riding at highway speeds with 2 checked-bag size suitcases in my side racks and a backpack and carry-on suitcase behind me.

    4 people in a hybrid use far less fuel.

    4 people on 1 bike uses less fuel than 4 people in a hybrid, its extremely common here in SEA.

    But if most of your trips involve transporting 2 or more passengers, then bikes aren't so attractive.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I saw someone watching tiktok while driving yesterday. People regularly don't see me, and I'm in a bright fuckin yellow 5000lb tank. Only way I'm riding a motorcycle is if everyone else has to ride one too.

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    While war continues to disrupt supply, there is still no shortage at pumps. De Haan said that it is also unlikely the U.S. will see shortages in the coming weeks, and that consumers should be wary of claims made online.

    "Volatility may lead stations to wait a day or three before buying gasoline, but people misinterpret it immediately because we're in very sensitive times," he said. "This is a time to fact check everything to avoid runaway panic."

    Nothing to see here! Don’t panic! There’s no shortage despite the shortage!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Nothing to see here! Don’t panic! There’s no shortage despite the shortage!

    it's so bizarre how we disregard this coming from the authorites, but believe it when it comes from media personalities that the authorities have paid to tell us. lol

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