• Fleur_@aussie.zone
    2 months

    Free as usual, I siphon it out of public school buses in low socioeconomic areas like Ronald Regan intended

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
      2 months

      I tried that, but I froze my lips because the school buses nearby run on LPG.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2 months

    im hoping for $10, fuck Cars. It’s not like this same shit hasn’t happened before and the same thing repeats, had decades to navigate the changes needed and just ignored it… Insanity

    My dream? an 80% reduction in private cars, and the rise of e bikes and e scoots, medium density housing, and more tree cover; quieter, friendlier, less deadly cities, you know 15 minute cities.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2 months

      had decades to navigate the changes needed and just ignored it… Insanity

      it is insanity, but not for the lack of navigation; it was about preventing china from gaining economic leverage with affordable electric vehicles and scalable renewable technologies.

          • Hazy@aussie.zone
            2 months

            It doesn’t. If it was really a concern it’d be better to beat them to the technology

            • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2 months

              yes, it would be better, but we didn’t because we lack the industrial capacity to provide both at scale and affordably so. so instead we just doubled down on fossil fuels and carved out legal corporate & governmental protections for harming people that we predict will get fucked over by climate change.

                • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  2 months

                  we slowed them down by using super high tariffs on electric vehicles and solar panels and it makes sense from a geopolitical perspective. the united states & europe uses its economic leverage to control the world and letting people buy chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, etc. would give the chinese this same type of leverage.

                  trump, biden, obama, both bushes, etc. consider china to be the enemy, so forcing people to stay dependent on fossil fuels instead of green energy is a way of making sure that the united states stays in control; the same is true for europe.

                  that’s also why we regime changed venezuela, libya, iran, etc. because they started selling oil using other currencies besides the american dollar and that would make the united states lose some of this leverage too.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2 months

      We are dropping to a one car house. Our now single car is an EV, I scopt and take transit, and I can’t be more ready for when we don’t even need the one

      • borokov@lemmy.world
        2 months

        Mitsubishi i-MiEV/Peugeot Ion/Citroen C0 (same car, different branding). This car is awesome. Cheap, can park anywhere, nervous at the start, and surprisingly spacious for its tiny size. I already carried wooden planks of 2.4m (7.8 ft) inside. Too bad it is not produced anymore 😢

        I don’t need to compensate with RAM or Dodge truck. The Peugeot is spacious enough to fit my two huge balls inside it.

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    2 months

    NYC. $0. Walk and take transit. Sorry, I’m insufferable about this but it’s really nice.

    • baller_w@lemmy.zip
      2 months

      I’m curious how energy costs affect public transit. Of course they have very good bargaining power and are well set up to augment energy prices.

      To Google DuckDuckGo!

      • jtrek@startrek.website
        2 months

        Fare changes usually are slower to change than gas prices for customers at the gas station. Bus fare in NYC is $3, and they can’t just change that day by day. (Unless our new mayor makes the buses free to ride!)

        It might be more expensive as energy costs go up, but services aren’t supposed to be run at a profit. The value in a mass transit system is very high.

        But there is probably an impact. Now I’m curious about how they decide the fares

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      Canada V3L. Transit is amazing, but only when it’s train-based.

      I loved the MTA and PATH when I was there.

    • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.socialEnglish
      1 month

      South FL, but my commute is taking the train for an hour or so, minus the fairly short drive to the station. The public transit life is great.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    Like $0.13 per KWh at home, minus whatever the panels generate. Probably not going up since it’s all hydro anyway

  • redparadise@lemmygrad.ml
    2 months

    India, ~100 INR/1.08 USD per litre (ie frozen), the government has refused to hike prices for now.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    If my rough calculations are correct, we’d love to have gas prices that are only 50% higher than that. 🇨🇦

  • folaht@lemmy.ml
    2 months

    Oh, just the regular $11.50 or so.

    That’s a guess though.
    I saw 2,30 € per liter at my local gas station
    and I just multiply by five for all the Usonians out there.

    It’ll likely hit $25 in a couple of months.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    2 months

    Thanks to trump;

    Northeast US, ~$2.70 3 days ago, ~$3.10 today and I expect it to continue to rise.

    #winning

    Edit: $3.19. Up 9¢ in 4 hours.

  • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    Topped up diesel @ AU$1.69 / L last Tuesday. It is now AU$2.19 / L. This is in Sydney, Australia.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    2 months

    I don’t know exactly but, it’s “bad” like everywhere else.

    Really looking forward to everything costing more, again.

    It’s just so surreal that the entire world needs to suffer because Trump is a pedophile child rapist and is happy to throw us all under the bus to avoid people thinking about that.

    I’m Australian, and really, really starting to dislike our close relationship with the US. I can see it’s a pragmatic relationship, but I hate that we have to sign on to all the idiocy - I really want our guys to tell Trump to stick it up his ass even if it costs us.