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thismanlies said:
Jesus, Joe. You already pissed off BLM with your support the police spiel. The worst that'll come from restarting the Keystone Pipeline is Greta Thunberg making weird faces at you.
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blm has a spine made out of jello, they will bend over and back the blue as long as their fundraiser leader supports them
 
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Absolutego said:
They're resorting to begging Venezuela for cheap crude oil now. Sure, even Fox will try to spin it as a 1000 IQ move to split Maduro's regime from Russia, but when we have the same administration begging Saudi Arabia to drill more, it's clear that he and his handlers are so shit-scared of getting scorned by some autistic vegan teenager that they'll source oil from literally anywhere else.

I love the environment. I moved to an area where we have to power-wash moss off of the sidewalk this time of year, it's so green. But damn do I fucking HATE the stranglehold environmentalists have over the Democrat party.
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Joe Biden Tomorrow: "C'MON MAN GAS IS STILL RISING? CAN WE BUY FROM ADOLF HITLER?"
 
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Quixotic Man said:
Is she talking to a room full of 6 year olds here?
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She either doesn't understand anything past a 6 year old reading level, or she thinks she's so superior to these people that she's overshooting how far she thinks she has to talk down to them. Either way, this is a signal to the rest of the world: No one is coming to save you from Pedo Joe being removed in some fashion. You are on your own this time.
 
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AGreatDipAtAFairPrice said:
I think I have consistently read that the break point for gasoline is 5 dollars a gallon adjusted for inflation for median wage earners and below (30,000 a year or less). At that point, maintaining an automobile and commuting to work no longer makes financial sense for close to half the country. We're already there for a lot of the country.

The millionaires and billionaires can't even tell people to trade in their gas guzzler, high maintenance, high insurance cost automobiles for cheaper cars that can lower insurance costs and be more reliable and be more gas efficient. New and used automobile prices hit all time highs in America over a year ago and are now shattering records. Maybe that's by design, price the plebs out of having cars. Many people don't want plebs having cars and hate American car usage and car culture. I guess the only thing they can do is blubber about saving the planet and pitch green cars and public transport.

Edit: This made me think of another Obama administration chestnut: Cash for clunkers. The American automobile fleet is on average over 12 years old now. Think they'll spin all the hits?
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Who even wants to trade in their old cars anyway? A lot of 90s and early 2000s cars are pretty simple to maintain and keep running no problem. As long as the parts are there, it shouldn't be an issue. When parts supply starts drying up, both new and old cars are screwed.
 
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soy_king said:
It needs to be done, but would require trillions in investment and decades of development, not to mention years of eminent domain suits going through the courts.
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And actual city planning involving cities that were never planned in the first place. Such projects are too complex for the government.
 
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davids877 said:
And those cities where it works it relies on living in the exact right spot, and working in the exact right spot. I've lived in 2 places where I could bicycle to work(safely and close to the same time as driving) and 0 where I could have taken public transit in any reasonable time.

Look at a transit map of any US city, then look at a transit map of Tokyo.

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Even in places like Tokyo the time factor isn't 'reasonable', expect to spend a lot of time crammed in like a sardine. As in triple the commute distance via car, minus the comforts of sitting and controlling your radio. Mass transit is a joke meme.
 
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davids877 said:
The number of cities in the US where public transit is a viable option is incredibly low. Even in supposedly 'good' places like Portland, OR. You hear how their 30 minute drive would take 1.5 hours.
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I don't want to sperg about public transit (yes I do), but IME a 3x multiplier for trip duration is pretty good. In most places it's more like 4x. And that's with no transfers or snafus.

There's a huge gulf between public transit as the ride-of-last-resort for disabled people and habitual drunks, and public transit as the preferred method of travel. There's no in between. You either invest enough to attract choice riders--which is very costly but can deliver a reliable user base of commuters and shoppers--or you operate a bare bones system that people will avoid as much as possible.
 
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