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Its hilarious how short sighted the US car market is.
When gas prices also spiked around 2008, the Toyota Prius hit sales records year after year. Then as soon as gas dropped, Prius sales also immediately dropped, while SUV sales began to climb to records again.
Its like nobody realizes gas will ALWAYS keep going up, and it will always find a floor price above where it was before....
I can't afford any of that shit though, so I'm scrabbling together parts to build a moped out of an old bicycle.
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Oh, now it matters? Fucken idiots. Won't make our own society more resilient until the thick of it is wriggling up our asses.
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after Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran helped cause a major jump in gasoline prices.
"helped" is doing some fuckin serious heavy lifting here.
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Good thing the pig-headed, slack-jawed, gas guzzler jackasses didn't put up so much of a pointless tantrum that most manufacturers stopped producing EVs altogether.
Oh, wait.
It really hurts people like me driving a 20+ year old car with over 200k miles cause I can't afford anything else.
If hybrids and EV's were cheaper, it would be a lot better for everyone. But the current administration hates electric vehicles and saving lives, so oh well.
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I love Tesler!
Which EVs?
Is Tesla profiting in a major way?
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