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    that won’t work. if everyone were to stop driving or relying on gas tomorrow. the oil companies would still raise the price because they are now “losing money” due to low demand and have to raise prices to make up for the make-believe money they are “losing”

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      No, with production then vastly too high they wound try to sell as much as possible to at least make some money before/during/after shutting down. But you are free point out where a product got obsolete/not bought and still more expensive despite high production in the past.

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    Oooo let’s get all the cars off the road and ride bikes instead! He said it not me.

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    I bet the trick to lowering health care costs is to need health care less, too.

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      Aha! You’ve figured out their ingenuous strategy! /s

      But seriously, what in the smooth-brained bullshit is this kind of logic?!

      • zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It’s the same shit they did & still do with COVID-19 testing. ‘If we do less tests, there will be less cases recorded! Problem solved!’

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      I save money on healthcare by spending 1/4 of my paycheck on health insurance and then absolutely never using it - hoping I cease existing if anything occurs.

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        Return to the office, don’t return home. Don’t go anywhere else. No driving. *points at forehead*

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    Hope all the miserable assholes who voted for stopping electrification feel it in every part of them. I hope they have to give up on real, meaningful life dreams forever because they are now unaffordable. And I hope their houses specifically burn down in the wildfires the CO2 from their gasoline made so common.

    I am beyond done with this gasoline bullshit.

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      Gas in my region is well over $5 a gallon I don’t notice because we went from 2 cars to 1, and the one is an EV.

      Meanwhile I STILL see these absolute morons buying huge gas suvs and trucks because… They need to? Always have a bullshit excuse that’s always easily debunked.

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        There are a lot of things people can do on their own… in a world where the median US income isn’t $45,000 and responsible and capable products aren’t tariffed to hell.

        Mass adoption comes with affordability which comes with support and clear, intentional direction. Consumers don’t shift paradigms when they think the new paradigm won’t go anywhere. We can’t even get people off of X - and that costs NOTHING.

        Electrifying on your own is prohibitively expensive for most people, and the fact that those people have to be prepared to also pay an additional premium because they’re fighting their own government at the same time, in a period in time where people can barely afford FOOD, is not tenable.

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          Using energy costs more money than not using it. With the amount of people flying every day don’t tell me cost is the problem.

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    Adds another lane: drive less!

    Stops construction of another public transport project: Drive Less!!

    Removes solar power and electric car subsidies: DRIVE Less!

    Makes electric bikes illegal: DRIVE LESS!

    (Party of freedom, btw)

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright

    In 2011, he founded Liberty Energy, then known as Liberty Oilfield Services.[15] As of February 2023, the company was valued at $2.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.[16] As the CEO of Liberty Energy, Wright earned $5.6 million in 2023.[11]

    Despite Herculean efforts on his part, Chris Wright was ultimately unable to live up to voter expectations of delivering lower fuel prices.

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    US government evolution of transportation ideology

    1. Walking is for the poors and the idiots
    2. Cycling is for suicidal maniacs
    3. Public transit is big government and communism and you’ll get mugged
    4. Cars are driving up gas prices
    5. ???
    6. PROFIT! (for the oil companies and the rest of the ruling class)
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    If Dems said that before the '24 election, to eat less food and drive less to save money, everyone would go mad lol, but this magafool says it and they cool with it.