Gas Prices Are Making Me 'Doom' Hard!

The future of carbon free emission generators!

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(Except for those humans spewing CO2 all over the place)
 
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"Just buy an electric car!" is such an asinine argument to make towards people struggling to afford gasoline. If gas stations are becoming too expensive for them, what the hell makes politicians think they can afford to drop at least $30,000 on an electric car? That argument isn't even applicable for truck drivers, as electric trucks are still being developed (not to mention how inefficient they'd be compared to gasoline trucks, or the logistics of having to create thousands of charging stations across the country). We're slowly bleeding out thanks to supply lines being disrupted, trying to force the issue on truck drivers is only going to fuck us even harder.

All this feel-good pie in the sky bullshit has no place in our current reality, and the sooner we ignore environmentalists the better.
 
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Vault Boy said:
"Just buy an electric car!" is such an asinine argument to make towards people struggling to afford gasoline. If gas stations are becoming too expensive for them, what the hell makes politicians think they can afford to drop at least $30,000 on an electric car? That argument isn't even applicable for truck drivers, as electric trucks are still being developed (not to mention how inefficient they'd be compared to gasoline trucks, or the logistics of having to create thousands of charging stations across the country). We're slowly bleeding out thanks to supply lines being disrupted, trying to force the issue on truck drivers is only going to fuck us even harder.

All this feel-good pie in the sky bullshit has no place in our current reality, and the sooner we ignore environmentalists the better.
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Dude like just stop being poor, you know? If you can't afford to drop like 30-100k on a new car what are you even doing? We don't even need trucks. Food comes from the store not trucks, duh. Seriously though fuck these rich assholes telling people to just go buy a new car. I hope it becomes the modern "let them eat cake".
 
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Vault Boy said:
That argument isn't even applicable for truck drivers, as electric trucks are still being developed (not to mention how inefficient they'd be compared to gasoline trucks, or the logistics of having to create thousands of charging stations across the country).
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not to mention the power grid in America isn't setup for that. Which, you know, still runs on gas/oil. Hell, Commiefornia can't even support people running their ACs in the summer. How the fuck will they handle everyone charging their cars at night.

Nuclear would solve all this. But we can never have that conversation because the boomers in charge still have nightmares about 3 Mile Island and Chernobol. Even though nuclear plants in the modern age are way more safer and use different fuel than those plants did.
 
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not to mention the power grid in America isn't setup for that. Which, you know, still runs on gas/oil. Hell, Commiefornia can't even support people running their ACs in the summer. How the fuck will they handle everyone charging their cars at night.
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They don't think these things through enough, all they see is "Ooh, clean energy!" without thinking of the practicality.

Or they do know, and are pushing this just to further fuck over us "plebs" out of spite.
 
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Vault Boy said:
They don't think these things through enough, all they see is "Ooh, clean energy!" without thinking of the practicality.

Or they do know, and are pushing this just to further fuck over us "plebs" out of spite.
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It's the latter. Making it impossible for the average person to drive a car will lower carbon emissions, after all.
 
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Even worse than the gas prices are the NPCs on the socials who are waxing their own carrot so right now about how ICE-vehicle drivers are LITERALLY Hitler and how much better of a person they are because they ONLY use public transport / a bike.
And don't get me started on EV drivers - they think they are Jesus.

Of course, in typical NPC fashion, they don't think about how goods still need to be moved and how not everybody can live in a bug hive or get to work by bike.
 
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tehpope said:
Nuclear would solve all this. But we can never have that conversation because the boomers in charge still have nightmares about 3 Mile Island and Chernobol. Even though nuclear plants in the modern age are way more safer and use different fuel than those plants did.
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Is that really a boomer vs youth thing because I've had nuclear shilled to me 15 years ago in school. People who know that modern nuclear is safe should be in their 30s/40s now. Environmentalists in general just hate nuclear, not just old people.
 
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Slight PL/self dox: I live near the Permian basin oil fields and a couple of the refineries in the southwest USA…and gas is still fucking $4.20 a gallon. I usually drive a turbo four that gets like 30ish MPGs but with a 12ish gallon tank and a weekly commute that ranges anywhere between 200-400 miles, I’m getting fucked with no lube here. Considering getting a motorcycle again but they’re not as cheap as they used to be and everyone seems to want to hold onto their 250/300cc bikes forever now.

I have no idea what I can do to mitigate gas prices in my personal life/budget other than start selling shit I don’t need anymore and start making stuff to sell again but those things were supposed to be plans to “make money on the side to save up”, not “make money on the side to afford driving to and from work to make money”

Also electric cars are gay and dumb and I get an immense amount of satisfaction from a perfect revmatch downshift into 2nd gear when making a fast turn or hearing my car’s wastegate go pssssshhh when I let off the throttle at >2500rpm. I’d have to pay twice what I paid for my gay babydick car if I wanted to buy a Tesla. And I still wouldn’t be able to do much of the maintenance work on my own compared to being able to do the bare minimum stuff done on my current car myself (brakes, oil changes, spark plugs)
 
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Vault Boy said:
"Just buy an electric car!" is such an asinine argument to make towards people struggling to afford gasoline. If gas stations are becoming too expensive for them, what the hell makes politicians think they can afford to drop at least $30,000 on an electric car? That argument isn't even applicable for truck drivers, as electric trucks are still being developed (not to mention how inefficient they'd be compared to gasoline trucks, or the logistics of having to create thousands of charging stations across the country). We're slowly bleeding out thanks to supply lines being disrupted, trying to force the issue on truck drivers is only going to fuck us even harder.

All this feel-good pie in the sky bullshit has no place in our current reality, and the sooner we ignore environmentalists the better.
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The entire point for the pushing towards widespread electric car usage is because E-cars have terrible range. Unlike a gas car which can be refilled with a jerry can, you NEED a charging port to even get anywhere. If you are out in the country and you don't have a charging port, you are royally fucked.
Its all a plan to force people into the major cities so everyone can be monitored and controlled by TPTB. If gas is too expensive, the serfs will have to use public transportation which limits where and when they can go places, or shell out the cash and buy a Tesla.
We have plenty of oil. This is another step to the dark utopia the elites want.
I know, I know, :politisperg:
 
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tehpope said:
not to mention the power grid in America isn't setup for that. Which, you know, still runs on gas/oil. Hell, Commiefornia can't even support people running their ACs in the summer. How the fuck will they handle everyone charging their cars at night.

Nuclear would solve all this. But we can never have that conversation because the boomers in charge still have nightmares about 3 Mile Island and Chernobol. Even though nuclear plants in the modern age are way more safer and use different fuel than those plants did.
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Environmental is the easy to understand barrier towards nuclear power, but even more important to what's preventing more nuclear power plants from being built is the financial barrier towards building one. Nuclear power plants are a lot cheaper than other energy sources over their entire lifespan, but as it turns out that's not what people are interested in because that lifespan is so long. What people are interested in is the point that the investment into the facility breaks even, which is much longer for nuclear power because it collects so much interest on the huge initial investment. As it is, nobody wants to wait 40 years for their investment into nuclear to turn them a profit when a dozen fossil fuel powered plants can do it in less than 10.

That's only going be solved if either nuclear power becomes significantly cheaper to build or the government hugely subsidizes the building of nuclear power plants. And as it is, they see it just the same as everyone else does- non-nuclear power plants are desirable because they're much cheaper in the short term. Your congressman doesn't want to fund a nuclear power plant that will make the world a better and cheaper place by 2060. He'll probably be dead by that point. It's not about the environment.
 
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