Gas Prices Are Making Me 'Doom' Hard!

I find it funny most of the people I know that are bitching in my area are the people that have big trucks just to impress their chud friends. As they blame the oil refinery down the street. I hope they low key try to storm it. lol
 
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ride a bike if you can. it's good exercise, and unlike a tesla it's actually within most people's means. your cardiovascular system will become stronger and more blood will circulate to your brain, which will allow you to feel more intensely angry at the elites who got you into this mess. send the money you save on gas to whichever politicians credibly promise to loosen energy environmental regulations, or whatever else it takes to bring prices down. these fuckers deserve to get nuked in the midterms.
 
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Un Platano said:
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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nuclear is over-regulated. the safety requirements are too stringent. this isn't trolling, it's an inevitable consequence of the "as safe as possible" regulatory regime.


Excessive concern about low levels of radiation led to a regulatory standard known as ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. What defines “reasonable”? It is an ever-tightening standard. As long as the costs of nuclear plant construction and operation are in the ballpark of other modes of power, then they are reasonable.


This might seem like a sensible approach, until you realize that it eliminates, by definition, any chance for nuclear power to be cheaper than its competition. Nuclear can‘t even innovate its way out of this predicament: under ALARA, any technology, any operational improvement, anything that reduces costs, simply gives the regulator more room and more excuse to push for more stringent safety requirements, until the cost once again rises to make nuclear just a bit more expensive than everything else. Actually, it‘s worse than that: it essentially says that if nuclear becomes cheap, then the regulators have not done their job.
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an example of the soviet-tier idiocy this results in:

A forklift at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory moved a small spent fuel cask from the storage pool to the hot cell. The cask had not been properly drained and some pool water was dribbled onto the blacktop along the way. Despite the fact that some characters had taken a midnight swim in such a pool in the days when I used to visit there and were none the worse for it, storage pool water is defined as a hazardous contaminant. It was deemed necessary therefore to dig up the entire path of the forklift, creating a trench two feet wide by a half mile long that was dubbed Toomer’s Creek, after the unfortunate worker whose job it was to ensure that the cask was fully drained.

The Bannock Paving Company was hired to repave the entire road. Bannock used slag from the local phosphate plants as aggregate in the blacktop, which had proved to be highly satisfactory in many of the roads in the Pocatello, Idaho area. After the job was complete, it was learned that the aggregate was naturally high in thorium, and was more radioactive that the material that had been dug up, marked with the dreaded radiation symbol, and hauled away for expensive, long-term burial.
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Drove though a small village near me today, about an hours drive out from the nearest town of over 10,000 people - prices were €2.09/litre for unleaded and €2.19 for diesel.

For the American conversion, that's $8.73 and $9.15 a gallon respectively.

If any politician tries passing carbon taxes or any other "green" nonsense, remember, just say no.
 
Tsukasa Kayoda said:
Cyclists are the niggers of the road. My desire to run them over is constant and powerful.
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they just want decent cycling infrastructure in place so they dont have to worry about them getting run over
like protected cycling lanes
 
Interest rates are up which just means Powell is turning the printers ever so slightly slower.
 
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they just want decent cycling infrastructure in place so they dont have to worry about them getting run over
like protected cycling lanes
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A protected lane for them isn't enough. Their road needs to be physically separated from the main roads used by autos.
 
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Deadwaste said:
they just want decent cycling infrastructure in place so they dont have to worry about them getting run over
like protected cycling lanes
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Which puts them in the road and then they road hog the lane.

Things were so much better for bicyclists when they had to be on the sidewalk.
 
Why is petrol called "gas" in the US? I mean it's not a gas, it's a fluid.
Twitter Hate Mob said:
Drove though a small village near me today, about an hours drive out from the nearest town of over 10,000 people - prices were €2.09/litre for unleaded and €2.19 for diesel.

For the American conversion, that's $8.73 and $9.15 a gallon respectively.

If any politician tries passing carbon taxes or any other "green" nonsense, remember, just say no.
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Aren't fuel taxes in Europe used for funding infrastructure (roads, signs, traffic lights etc.)?

Tsukasa Kayoda said:
Cyclists are the niggers of the road. My desire to run them over is constant and powerful.
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I cycle everywhere I can, it is faster than using the bus and cheaper than driving.
 
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Vogelgöttin said:
Aren't fuel taxes in Europe used for funding infrastructure (roads, signs, traffic lights etc.)?
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Fuel taxes in Ireland are used to fund accommodation for "refugees" and dumbshit Green party policies, like trying to figure out if reintroducing wolves to the country would be a good idea (spoiler alert: obviously fucking not)
 
Hey guys, it’s been over a month since the last post, how are gas prices entering summer?

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…no more mean tweets…
 
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