your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792

am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.

petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.

USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.

i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.

KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.

#USpol #cars #NoBloodForOil

Show threadPoloniousmonk

@blogdiva

Petrol is priced by the liter in Europe, and when I was there in the 90s, the per-liter price was higher than our per-gallon price. They used the revenue to build public transportation. I've been saying since then we should as well.

Start with a one dollar a gallon gas tax and increase it a dollar a year indefinitely.

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Show threadKrutonium://4d ago

@Uair @blogdiva I think that's a good idea; but do keep in mind certain problems; like people who live in places where there is no public transport, and it makes no sense to have any. And a dollar a year sounds like it'd be reasonable, but it's very not. After just 10 years you've made purchasing fuel go from somthing you can afford to do to being somthing that is an ultra-luxury, which is again problematic for those for whoem public transit isn't a choice they can make.

This plan could work with the right concessions made though, for those who actually need a car, defined along very specific lines.

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦4d ago

URBAN PLANNING is completely disregarded in this country to serve the interests of the petromafia.

WHAT PART OF WALKABLE TOWNS don't you do not understand? it would entail ditching suburbanism for urbanism ―something WHITE PEOPLE do not want.

so stop rationalizing the shitshow we have now and start speaking of how to break the car apartheid of suburbanism.

@krutonium @Uair

Show threadKrutonium://4d ago

@blogdiva @Uair I'm talking about people like Farmers ya dingus.

It makes no fucking sense to run a bus to the middle of nowhere for not many people. For them, cars are the correct choice. The majority of people I agree, it is not.

I personally take busses and trains everywhere, and yes, I live in a North American City. Canada, specifically, but still NA.

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦4d ago

1. you really haven’t been to other countries, havent you?

2. there should have never been farms so huge that there are no communities within them.

SERIOUSLY,

part of desuburbanizing the USA involves breaking BigAgra.

@krutonium @Uair

Show threadKrutonium://4d ago
@blogdiva @Uair I actually have. Nice assumption though!
Show threadDeb Nam-Krane4d ago
@krutonium hey, dingus, people like farmers would actually love public transit busses because they know better than anyone else how expensive gasoline is as they're getting squeezed every which way. They use cars because they don't have a choice, not because it "makes sense" @blogdiva @Uair
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen4d ago
@krutonium @blogdiva @Uair shit, may as well rip up the road too, wasting money on maintaining a road into "the middle of nowhere" must surely be far more costly than keeping a bus running
Show threadKrutonium://3d ago

@mxchara @blogdiva @Uair Having lived "in the middle of nowhere" yeah they don't really maintain those roads, either.

My point is that there are places where busses and similar just simply no longer make sense.

Show threadKevin Karhan 3d ago

@krutonium @blogdiva @Uair Yeah, Farmers - espechally in #Germany - need to STFU re: their subsidized #Diesel…

They don't pay € 2,289/l for that!

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Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Gotta do #Rangemaxxing *even harder* @ € 2,079/l for RON95E10! On a different note: - USians complaining about #FuelPrices need to STFU! - You voted for the Orange Tyrant & you have the means to yeet his Regime! - Until you pay > $10/gal you are privilegued af! #venting #sarcasm #commentary #shitpost #USpol #DEpol #EUpol #FuelPrices #RON95E10 #RON95 #E10 #fuel #gasoline #gas #Opel #Corsa #OpelCorsa #Efficiency #FuelEfficiency #EfficiencyMaxxing #Maxxing

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Show threadFlipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈4d ago

@blogdiva
How are we supposed to flee from the scary brown people without a car? Ummm... I mean have freedom to choose our schools for our children, or something like that.

@krutonium @Uair

Show threadMichael Wyman4d ago
@Uair @blogdiva America also needs to use the funds to build public parks and green space in cities. Many of cities are atrocious at having safe outdoor green spaces for kids (and adults).