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Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
(www.fox2detroit.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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4$ per gallon that's approximately 1$ per litre.
I hope it will at least double for you so you know what it's like to pay for petrol in Europe..
I hope it will at least double to shock the system into prioritizing clean energy.
Ah yes, hurt the poor people to make the rich wake up. That'll definitely work!
That's lovely idea but I don't have even money to buy a newly made car. Where I'm supposed to get money for significantly more expensive (price and repair coat) and unreliable electric car? Now I can repair my car on my own cause it's old and easy, also easy to refill. Electric cars is not the way. Also it's not that green as everybody thinks..
The point of expensive fuel is to stop manufacturers from making gas guzzling monstrosities. If fuel was $2 a litre would you be looking for a tiny-penis truck or a more efficient car?
Manufacturers follow the market
I drive around a country the size of Texas in a 1.2 litre hatchback and have no issues with that
So much wrong with this one.
But on the "i can't afford" one. Yes, you might not be able to afford a new electric car. They are a luxury still and will probably stay that until we see enough teslas on the used market.
But you also dont have to buy a new car. if you can not afford your car right now and doubling the gas prices will worsen that condition then something entirely different is wrong.
Might be multiple things. Either you are American and you live in a nice-ish house in the suburbs: Your politicians and the car industry have failed you for a long time. I would say go vote but i doubt that even a fully dem senate and ruling party would change a lot.
Might be that you don't earn enough money at all. This one is a bad one, because it means your politicians have failed you deeply. Agin, voting might change it a bit to the better but if you cannot demand a bigger wage to fund your only way to get to work then you're out of luck.
Even if you could buy an electric now, it would not save you any money if you don't or can't change something else drastically.
Drive less, earn more, move closer to work if that's even possible.
Electric cars will become cheaper and hit the used car market once they become more common.
I'm sorry but I don't want used ev. Battery will be degraded and buying new one is like buying a new cheap petrol car. If you don't buy new one, you'll have a shity range, which is already shity and heavily exaggerated by manufacturers, especially in high and low temps which are for example in Europe where I live almost 50% time of whole year. There is no infrastructure to charge ev cars and it's decades away from being build, especially in my country.
If evs should be reality it has to have range at least 600km in worst temp scenario while being able to charge fully in 15 mins tops.
And even than I wouldn't want it. I wanna have car which I can easily repair myself, without electrical shenanigans and bulshit like changing whole fcking light instead of just bulb, or having to ask to access software of my car, jeez..
I don't want my car to have displays instead of buttons. I don't even understand how that can be legal, when you obviously don't watch the road to adjust fcking air conditioning. Or that stupid hold the line function which has car in my work. You can't even turn that shit off and it steers instead of you. When I overtake a cyclists it's a living nightmare and not talking about state of roads which have like multiples lines over and the cars is fcked.
I'm 29 and I don't want to have over-electroniseid everything..
Which country is that?
Just the other day I got a taxi trip in a Tesla, with a guy showing photos of how he'd gone from Spain to Ukraine with a bunch of other Tesla taxi drivers to bring back some refugees. That sounds like he could get a recharge, across most of Europe?
Canada just north of the border it's about $1.92/L where I live.
I hope your country multiples in size to match the US and you can see what it's like to have to drive long distances.
They do, it's called the European Union and they have publicly-funded means of transportation through it. They can freely move through the borders of any nation in the Schengen Zone without need of a passport. You can travel through most of Europe by many different means besides automobiles.
Our country is just too stubborn and individualistic to ever elect politicians that would see through the time and money required for the types of projects needed to make the US no longer reliant on cars and trucks. On top of that, it could take decades. Say if we ever did, it would just get shut down when the next conservative blow hard convinces enough people that it isn't worth it.
Long term projects like that just aren't in the cards for the US any more.
Yeah, no shit. Not surprised no one here grasps concepts that aren't spelled out in blinking neon but my comment wasn't glorifying American waste. It was mocking their self-centered and needlessly dickish bs. But go off.
fucking clown 🤡 I just can't aaaaa
Fuck off. I hope the price gets cut in half. It's expensive enough here
You have 3x higher average yearly salary than in the czech republic while having 2x lower price of gas/petrol. And we are considered developed country.. You have nothing to complain about. Get yourself 1.2 litre hatchback like I have..
I would ban every engine above 2l in citizen commute cars cause there is no need for more power.