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Oh shit is this not a joke?
agents deployed.
Hahaha Michelle Maxwell had a 4 out of 5 chance of getting the stressed word correct and completely bombed. Impressive stuff. Almost any other of those words would have been better than 'of'.
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Beep Boop beep I keep hearing people complain....
Saya terus-menerus mendengar orang mengeluh....
My bike gets like 100 miles per gallon of oatmeal
That can't be good for the fuel injector.
Just don't put any additives or you will blow up the exhaust
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density of oatmeal (source (although this is with sugar)): 693 kg/m³ = 0.69 kg/L
nutritional value of oatmeal (source): 297 kJ/100g = 2970 kJ/kg
(oatmeal with sugar and stuff: 4600 kJ/kg, same source as the first one)
typical leisurely cycling energy expenditure (source): 80 kJ/km
bicycle oatmeal-efficiency: (2970 kJ/kg * 0.69 kg/L) / (80 kJ / km) ≈ 25.62 km/L ≈ 3.9 L/100km ≈ 60 mpg
bicycle oatmeal-efficiency with sugary oatmeal: (4600 kJ/kg * 0.69 kg/L) / (80 kJ/km) ≈ 39.68 km/L ≈ 2.5 L/100km ≈ 93 mpg
please do correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the math pretty much checks out on that one!
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... whie just a few microliters of LSD can transport you across the ENTIRE UNIVERSE
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For the damage it's doing, fossil fuels should be several times more expensive to compensate in climate change costs and reduce demand.
There should be a carbon tax, but whoever signs it will be the least popular president in history. One of the flaws of democracy is that sometimes the thing that really needs to happen is unpopular with the moronic citizenry that can't understand why it needs to happen.
There are countries who already do have a CO2 tax.
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Has he tried HP printer ink?
I find it too metallic to be a solid drink, but the price does make me feel fancy.
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The problem isn't that prices are going up. The problem is we're not paid anywhere near what we should be.
AKA The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
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Is this going to be another thread of people taking an obvious joke seriously
While it doesn't show the whole post, nothing about this screams obvious joke.
I saw a Trump supporter in a very red area of the U.S. share this or a very similar thing sincerely. He didn't think it was a joke.
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Poe's law. It's not extreme enough. I can easily picture a maga using this logic to justify why Trump's middle east fuckup isn't all that bad.
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Petrol is super cheap, because the only thing you can really do with it is burn it for energy.
That and you waste 60-90 percent of that energy potential as heat.
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All the reading beyond this point was oppositional research.
If "Calvin's dadism" was a cult, I'd be in it
Truly spoken like someone with too much disposable.
More and more people can't afford the wine or the fancy coffee, or the gasoline to get to the fancy restaurant, or the time to eat out after working their two jobs, or the 4000-lb SUV to pour the gasoline into, because they need their old banger and the gasoline to haul their ass to work to earn enough to pay rent, utilities and a bit more gasoline to stay on the hamster wheel for one more month - month after month.
This. And the other consideration they aren't factoring in is that the cost of gasoline makes everything else more expensive, too.
Based on what I know of wine, a $9/glass varietal is on the lower end of quality today, but that was about average a few years ago. My recollection is that a cheap wine would have gone for $5/glass in 2010. The Two Buck Chuck that we bought by the case in college now costs almost $5.
The wine hasn't gotten any better. But it costs more to move that wine by truck to the store, so the price goes up. It costs more to manufacture the bottles and power the equipment they use to process the grapes. It costs more to harvest and transport the grapes in the first place. It's a chain of price increases down the line that all add up with the cost of gas.
Wages haven't meaningfully increased at a comparable rate either. Even if you're earning a bit more now on paper than you were 5-10 years ago, everyone's purchasing power has dropped significantly. Even if prices of certain goods haven't gone up that much, I have to think a lot more about my spending today than I used to.
The focus on golf clubs tells me exactly the type of person this is. Also, my bike will transport my wife and clubs for a lot longer than 30 minutes on cheap Ramen lunch.
That is If I had golf clubs…
Or a bike…
And my wife may have left me...
Now I’m hungry for noodles.
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EV charging stations should start putting up gas station style boards showing the current price per kWh. Not that a kWh of electrons gets you as far as a gallon of gas, but a substantial chunk of the population will see the smaller number and start thinking about switching.
I mean even then it is way cheaper compared to gasoline. Around me, EV stations charge ~$0.50/kwh (give or take) and gas is ~$4.50/gal. Assuming 5 mi/kwh and 25 mpg, that comes out to $0.10/mi on electric and $0.18/mi on gas. So in "gas prices", EVs cost ~$2.50/gal and that's assuming you don't do most of your charging at home, which takes it down to ~$0.08/kwh around me ($0.016/mi or $0.40/gal equivalent).
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I remember this exact same post when Biden was president... oh wait, no I don't.
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Technically he isn't wrong, but not for the reasons he thinks. Gas prices are subsidized significantly. And if they weren't, people sure wouldn't drive as much. Unsubsidized it would be between 10 and 15 per gallon. So if 2 to 4 is double, that would mean it would now be 20 to 30. So like a dollar a mile in his math.
Remember when gas went up a little bit under Biden and these motherfuckers never shut the fuck up about it? I am sick of this shit
By that logic, the most cost-effective fuel would be a little baggie of shrooms.
For less than $10, it will transport him 20-light-years to another realm of existence, where he can have afternoon tea and crumpets with a friendly Narwhal named Gershwin, lounging under a rainbow.
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Pic I took the other day, price was the same when I drove past it last night
Where I live, gas is 2.28€/L, that's about $11.80/gallon, still people rather drive their car to work every day instead of riding the 2000€ eBike collecting dust in their garage, and they are 5km (3.1mi) away from work. I would argue has price is not expensive enough for them.
On the other hand, the student we have on part time, rides the train 2 hours to come, because it's too expensive for him to tank up his motorcycle.
I rather drink a glass of wine than 2 gallons of gasoline.
Pushing £2/litre here and I am still waiting for air quality to improve. Maybe £5/litre is necessary.
Higher prices for most with reductions on red diesel could possibly be a good compromise.
You don't need a fucking SUV to go to the corner shop 500m away.
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If only you were driving a normal sized car, the same amount of gas would take you twice as far.
I have a Hyundai Elantra that gets the same fuel economy
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