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[–] 111 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Start putting these on the pumps:

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Fairly certain my Trump “I did that” stickers come down the same day I put them up.

    Glad I sprung for the 100 pack.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I bet anything the same bunch that were screaming "make comedy legal again!!111eleventy!" and slapping their knees at how hilarious those Biden "I did that" stickers were (even though he had quite literally nothing at all to do with gas prices OR inflation) are now squealing in agony and racing to tear those down when they see the highly accurate and very apropos Trump "I did that" stickers, though. 🤣

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Good thing he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace incumbent Republicans with candidates whose only personality trait is praising trump without question...

    All this shit is going to backfire in the general, Republicans won't vote D, they just won't vote at all

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I know my dumbass mom is “done with politics”. That’s actually the best I could have ever hoped for.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    She told me that she will still vote republican at the next election, because that's just what she does

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    We are ruled by the dumbest dipshits on the planet.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    For some reason that's the biggest bummer of it all to me, how incredibly dumb and powerful these people are. I'm starting to think someone has to be dumb to want to exert power over another person in the first place. I'm sure it fuels their egos too.

    I wonder what its like to live like that, it sounds incredibly foreign.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago
    [–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This just shows how completely out of touch this asshat is.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    He's never filled his own gas tank. He has no idea what the fuck we are talking about.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    It's a peanut, Michael! How much could it cost?

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    also, peanuts now $29 a can.

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  • [–] 75 points 5 months ago (46 children)

    I dunno how much longer Bobby John from Oklahoma can take filling up his RAM 3500 Dually lifted XTREME offRoad Pavement Princess Edition™ @ $150 a pop for much longer, Mr. Pedo. You're making your cult followers very angry!

    Keep it up!

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  • [–] 70 points 5 months ago (35 children)

    The baseline tank size for a ram 3500 is 32 gallons. Diesel is $5.74/gal on average in the Midwest. So a full fill up is ~$184/tank. You underestimated that, yikes.

    For more fun, you can also upgrade to a 50 gallon tank, making it $287/tank.

    These get a respectable ~18 mpg, so $0.32 per mile.

    Just throwing money away

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    They get 18mpg when you drive them like a fucking baby on the highway. Your average idiot who floors it at every stoplight, and does 90 on the interstate gets half that.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Don't forget the fucking idiots totally cool and definitely not compensating intellectuals that "roll coal".

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It gets between 11-12 mpg on average according to user reports at Fuelly

    Diesel is around $6/gal depending on where you live.

    It costs around $0.50/mile to drive a Ram 3500 6L just in fuel. On average. Across thousands of drivers that reported data.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I can't think of a time past 2000 where driving conventional ICE trucks/big vehicles has been anything other than a money sink.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I have a Subaru WRX and it requires 91+ octane. It was $5.64/gal for me a couple days ago square in the Midwest. $71 to fill up and my gas light wasn't even on. Right next to the 91 on the pump was 88 at < $4.50/gal. When I filled up 2 weeks ago it was $5.09 then 2 days later $5.39. Fuck Trump and his admin so hard.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Midwest for me too, cost me $71 to fill up my GTI on Saturday. $6.25 a gallon for 93. Guess I should be grateful I can tune back to stock and run 87 if I have to.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Gas is so cheap in the US....

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Right, I know it is still cheaper than it should be given the environmental cost. I wish I had any other way to get to work but the infrastructure simply doesn’t exist where I am.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    If your average daily drive is 40 miles or less you can use a regular wall outlet to charge an EV.

    Any more than that and you'll need a bigger home charger, but you can still charge at home where it's cheap unless you're driving over 100 miles or so every day.

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  • [+] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I traded in my Miata for a 2017 Bolt last year and I love the stupid little thing. By American standards it's a small car, but it has a good deal of space inside. But I'll also say that it's small enough that it's fun to take downtown where parking gets hairy.

    So, if you haven't tried one yet, I'd recommend at least giving the Bolt a shot.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    Fucken hell my 25 year old Tacoma gets better mileage, that's factoring in uphill mileage loss of going uphill along the 15 towards Vegas.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    No shit your midsize pickup gets better mileage than a heavy-duty full-size one, even if the latter does have a diesel. Were you surprised??

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    yeah but the heavy duty can climb cinder block mountains, those are everywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    It's just the fact that my old ass car is getting better mileage than a modern truck. Especially since most of these big fuckass mobiles generally leave the basement less than my basic bitch Tacoma which is just a 2WD drive.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Engines have gotten somewhat more efficient in the past 25 years, but not that much more efficient. For example, a 2026 base-model Tacoma is a whopping 3 MPG more efficient than a 2001 base-model Tacoma (according to the EPA, anyway; according to vehicle owners they're the same).

    https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=16989&id=50081

    Internal-combustion engines are a pretty mature technology, especially once you're talking new enough to have fuel injection. Other than stuff like Atkinson-cycle engines (which only apply to hybrids), the small refinements in efficiency since the '90s aren't anywhere near enough to overcome the vast size/weight/capacity difference from a reasonably-small truck to a gigantic one.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    My 20 year old moped gets better mileage than a modern 18-wheeler

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Bikes will always get better mileage than basically any other gas powered vehicle with maybe the sole exception of trains. If memory serves right Germany was still using motorcycles right till the end of WW2 after a everything else ran out of fuel.

    Idk just seems weird for anyone to want a gas guzzler when better shit is available especially when you don't need it for anything else. Hell with how shit modern cars are and how expensive they are on top of that you could probably pay someone to build you a car if you supplied the frame for cheaper.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    With how shit modern cars are? AFAIK they last longer than ever

    Used to be hitting 100,000 miles was rare, or at least a sign of old age.

    Although really I was just commenting on the weird "wtf, much smaller older car gets better gas mileage" comment as a crappy reply of my own

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I forget that the internal combustion engine is so old my last first generation American family member was still alive, mind you he was ancient even by modern standards but still. Ya kinda get used to tech advancing massively over time if not in form then in function that it's easy to forget that's not universally applicable, after all my Kbar isn't too different from a neolithic stone knife you could give it to a living Otzi and he'd know what it is.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I tried putting some figures ($85K Ram 3500, diesel, financed) into truecosttodrive.com and got a cost/mile of $0.95.

    Point being: Cutting the price of fuel by a third (getting back to where it had been in 2025, say) isn't going to turn that into an economy ride. Even at $6 / gallon, most of the cost is depreciation, insurance, and maintenance. Driving is absurdly expensive and I believe we only put up with it because so much of the cost is hidden or easy to overlook.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    I just perused approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

    But it's a lot. Independence and Democrats so much less so that his overall approval rating is like 38% last I checked, nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

    Remember towards the end of his first term he was around 40%, and Biden was at 40% for 3 years and did nothing to change that.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

    That’s what Fox News, AM radio and this lovely new crop of manosphere jerkoffs are all put on the air to do. Create this cult.

    Propaganda works. Usually only in one direction, usually only on most people. Add some evil-science military psyop characteristics and yeah. You get that.

    If our billionaire ‘free’ press could get to breaking that down, that’d be great kthx.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    The Internet has just totally changed things, the crazies, the kooks, the cranks, prior to the internet they would say something crazy and be ostracized for it.

    Now they get online they find a million other people that believe the same thing. And those Rich billionaires are using those crazy people for their own ends

    The only answer is for us to organize and counter use those crazy people against the people trying to use them against us, that's the truth and we can do it. But obviously there's a lot more to it than that.

    Obviously mass media was a thing before this and a huge problem, I was just illustrating away things have changed but you're right Fox News well first of all they are the devil, or at least the voice of evil, but the entire reason we have ended up in this place. Not just them but you know that the worst obviously. Or they were.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

    Let's just cut our losses and all agree the USA experiment is a failure. Just split it up.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If only, that would solve a lot. Got the Eastern corridor, the upper midwest, the southeast Deep South Southwest and west.

    Unfortunately leaving the union is not an option I seem to recall something about a group trying to do that at one point and they were prevented from doing so.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    I mean yeah, we are sacrificing so much, but the pain is temporary, and a small price to pay for giving Iran a massive strategic boost they couldn't have gotten any other way!

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    She's holding steady captain! $6.20!

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Speaking of peanuts, I really wish this fuck would choke on one.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    As of today, there isn't a place in the US where gas is below $4/gallon, according to GroundNews

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    All of the gas around here is under $4...

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    A Gallon is 4 Liters right? I just checked the current Diesel price in my country and it's at 9.80USD/Gallon. I hate to agree with the Donald here, but those prices are actually peanuts.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm really tired of everyone comparing the US to countries with completely different fuel consumption profiles.

    In 2024, 72% of all US freight was transported by trucks. For reference, the EU average was 25% road (sea was 67% with optimal fuel efficiency). Freight is also transported over much longer distances, making gas prices a larger part of operating costs. So already, high gas prices hit much harder in the USA than most places.

    Secondly, population density and existing infrastructure require personal car use. There is almost never a rail or public transport option. Despite lower prices and higher average income, fuel spending is a larger percentage of household spending in the US than the EU (especially among the poorer population).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Yes you're right, I agree with you that the conditions are very different because of the reasons you mentioned and the other financial factors like food and rent are probably different too. I admit my original comment comes of very ignorant rereading it now a couple hours later, sorry about that

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    We are accustomed to a certain standard of subsidized gas prices in America, okay?

    Don't get me wrong, I want to see $30/gallon of gas so that people finally start rioting against the orange doofus, or the discourse about public transportation and alternative energy sources shifts on our favor. At the same time, I don't want to see people suffer over gas and consumables prices.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    We in the USA prepay to a degree for gasoline. Our taxes subsidize the at pump costs to a significant portion. We get charged twice if not more for what we are considering outrageous prices in the US.

    I went from paying about 24 dollars a week to get to and from work, do errands and child care. Now I'm up to 70+ a week.

    For your country what did diesel cost last year?

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