Oil prices have risen. That's making gas more expensive for US drivers and helping Russia's war
Oil prices have risen. That's making gas more expensive for US drivers and helping Russia's war
Oil prices are up, and that affects people far and wide. Drivers pay more for gasoline, and truckers more for diesel.
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The world and particularly the west desperately need to address their oil addiction. Business as usual is no longer acceptable.
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Higher oil prices are motivating people to move away from oil, hopefully toward electrification & renewables. Or at the very least, motivating people to lower their fuel consumption.
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Electric vehicles are better than sticking with internal combustion, but there's still so much energy wasted in designing infrastructure around everyone getting around by cars in the first place. Everything gets spread further apart to accommodate them on roads and in parking lots, which means you have to travel farther to get where you're going. Our city designs need to shift toward density way faster than they currently are.
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That's making gas more expensive for US drivers
yeah no kidding lol
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How much are you paying at a gas station?
Here in Germany it's 2€/liter
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Gas near me is about $3.25 per gallon, which (assuming my math is correct) is about 0.82 Euro per litre.
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While I genuinely feel bad for economically disadvantaged workers with long commutes in used vehicles, I can't help but notice most of the complaints about fuel prices come from people who: A. Shout down anyone trying to improve public transportation infrastructure by saying it can't work in rural areas (it can, and has), and B. Own outrageously large personal vehicles that guzzle gas and houses with 2+ stall garages.
I'll listen to complaining from anyone who doesn't fall into one or both of these two groups.
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The only times I see people like me, who prefer owning a car "shouting down" people adcovating for better public transport, is when people suggest I should get rid of my car and ride a bus instead. A good public transportation system is a net-good for everyone, and in no way inconveniences me especially if I never even use it. It's not busses and trains I have an issue with - it's the naive city dwellers who thinks that because they get around just fine without a car then anyone would.
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Personally I think gas is still too cheap.
Gas should be prohibitively expensive. It’s price should reflect its impact.
Unfortunately this would crumble the entire US and possibly western economy. It works in most of the rest of the world because the commutes are smaller and the alternative transit is plentiful.
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