Australia, relatively speaking is virtually just as big geographically as the USA, so in that sense it's not like Australians have short distances to travel either. Luckily public transport is an option in most parts of Australia, unless your out in some hot as hell, dry as a dessert location like most parts of central Australia for example.Americans do have some big distances to cover, but so many don't give two shits about concepts like anything that resembles a community/team effort to make society work, which includes working with natural resources, nor about incorporating things like public transportation as options. That's all communism. It's all about me me me me me me big car do what I wanna do when I wanna do it I wanna get stuck in shit tons of traffic as we overfuck our infrastructure because it's still just about me! Independence above all and fuck the whole thing we are on this planet together concept.
I'm a little concerned about how much of your phones storage is consumed by "getting gas at Costco" pictures
As far as I can tell, the people complaining the loudest are also those who are anti EV
And don't forget that they also **need** to be able cart their refrigerators and other heavy appliances anywhere at a moments notice.lol it's true
anti-EV posts have been all the rage on my local small town facebook group
shoot they even make fun of people who drive hybrids
real muricans drive 15 mpg vehicles 30 miles to work one way
lol it's true
anti-EV posts have been all the rage on my local small town facebook group
shoot they even make fun of people who drive hybrids
real muricans drive 15 mpg vehicles 30 miles to work one way
My biggest argument against EVs now is the cost. I just can't justify it even with the gas savings.
I mean you are kind of proving my point. If it doesn't work for you, it works for nobody or society. Exactly the issue with conservative thought.
Obama and many progressives support things like providing broadband and other infrastructure to rural areas that would mostly benefit them. I mean us in the cities, we got our broadband, but we know that those type of things would help everybody overall by bringing opportunity everywhere. But conservatives, mass transit doesn't benefit them so they don't give a shit about mass transit in the urban and suburban areas - even though that better mass transit in the cities, which generate most revenues that provide the resources to benefit both rural and urban areas, reduces our overall fossil fuel and energy consumption thus benefiting the entire societal structure with less demand on such things. I mean renewable energy is for the commies, and wind power caused the Texas power grid to collapse. It's all nonsense.
You can take such an example and extrapolate it over a lot of rural vs non-rural or blue vs red positions. It usually works out with the same answer.
Also not everybody out there needs big trucks. A lot of it is a big dick swinging contest with zero thought to any larger concept. Like coal rolling anybody with a fuel efficient car or on a bike. I mean that encapsulates things quite perfectly as well. WE HATE THAT YOU ARE FUEL EFFICIENT OR ANYTHING ENVIORONMENTALLY FRIENDLY OR GETTING A WORKOUT NOT IN A GIANT CAR! I WANT TO SPOUT DIRTY SOOT IN YOUR FACE FOR JUST DOING YOUR OWN THING HURTING NOBODY!
lol it's true
anti-EV posts have been all the rage on my local small town facebook group
shoot they even make fun of people who drive hybrids
real muricans drive 15 mpg vehicles 30 miles to work one way
yeah same, i was intrigued by EVs, but then i did the math
at 4$ a gallon, a subaru forester getting 30 mpg costs ~13$k to drive 100k miles, and a tesla model y getting 125 mpg (effectively) costs ~3$k to drive 100k miles
but a subaru forester is about 30$k cheaper than a tesla model y
so it'd take 300k miles just to break even from the gas savings
yeah same, i was intrigued by EVs, but then i did the math
at 4$ a gallon, a subaru forester getting 30 mpg costs ~13$k to drive 100k miles, and a tesla model y getting 125 mpg (effectively) costs ~3$k to drive 100k miles
but a subaru forester is about 30$k cheaper than a tesla model y
so it'd take 300k miles just to break even from the gas savings
Hey I am like 52% sure brianmanahan is a real personI know literally zero people who would cross shop these two vehicles.
They could always put back in the rail right of way to rebuild the streetcar suburbs of old (with the feeder lines to heavy mass transit), but that means taking space away from precious automobiles, and people will be apoplectic if you try to do that.I’m actually split between Richmond,Va (apt)and the south central part where I work. And you are right about the attitudes of folks in the sticks. They even paved over their rail tracks , so even light rail is out of the question for them.
WTI has gone back down under 100. It'll go back up if people really start going back to the office in April but you might get a window where it drops back under $4 for a bit.