Whatever makes you sleep at night bud
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Well that’s a minute of my life I’ll never get back.
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.
30mpg? what you guys are driving, an Abrams
Talking points have been distributed
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’.
Huh, they let Betty be a lesbian.
Beep Boop beep I keep hearing people complain…
Saya terus-menerus mendengar orang mengeluh…
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.
What if we harvest that heat for energy
That is exactly what we are doing in the upper end of that efficiency range (turbochargers, turbine generators, heater cores) - the waste heat from that is unharvestable (exhaust gas, engine core heat).
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.
I had some really good ramen last night at one of the conveyor belt sushi places.
Super expensive.
But good.
DM ME NOODlES!
Has he tried HP printer ink?
I find it too metallic to be a solid drink, but the price does make me feel fancy.
Just a shot now and then, as a treat.
Still an expensive drink.
Have you ever, as a gag, ordered a single of expensive whiskey and shot it in front of the bar tender? Me either, I do that with cheap whiskey just fine.
Fuels are additive to the cost of the (sometimes bottled) water, coffee, etc. that gets delivered as part of the transportation and delivery costs. That‘s different than just buying the water and expecting a comparative output from it.
My bike gets like 100 miles per gallon of oatmeal
Nothing beats bicycle when it’s comes to efficiency.
That can’t be good for the fuel injector.
Just don’t put any additives or you will blow up the exhaust
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.
Literally the entire thing screams obvious joke.
I once got an F in school for pointing out the text was an obvious joke 😂 It wasn’t. Turns out people in that time period were really stupid. (Guess that also holds true for modern times. Maybe even more so.)
I think we have different definitions of obvious.
Yes. I have the correct one, you have the wrong one.
Oh, is this like the thing where “literally” can be used in additional contexts outside of its primary meaning? So, this joke is “obvious”?
No like the joke is just obvious to anyone who has eyes and reading comprehension skills and a basic understanding of humor.
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.
The Tisms strike again
Dude, I’ve got the 'tism; I think this is largely a media literacy issue.
If that’s the case then I think Lemmy has some of the worst media literacy per user that I’ve ever seen in one space online. Minus maybe Facebook
Media literacy around the world is in shambles, not just in some dumb corner of the internet.
In this case I’m specifically referring to detection of satire and sarcasm
Oh, I happen to agree.
I know people who post this unironically. They are too far gone
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).
EVs get around 3-4 mi/kwh. Still better than gas by a little bit, but intentionally close to price matching.
The conversion for eMPG (which yes, is possibly the most cursed of units) is ~33 kwh equals a gallon. My PNW home electricity prices are pretty low, but that puts an eGallon at ~$2.97.
If anything I think that number is misleadingly high, but that’s part of why it’s possibly the most cursed unit.
I get 4.2 m/kWh on the highway, $2.97 / eGallon seems very high to me.
… whie just a few microliters of LSD can transport you across the ENTIRE UNIVERSE
They say DMT feela like loading the Universe into the cannon and shooting yourself with it.
DMT is IMO not a “recreational” drug. The few times I’ve done it, it was a shitload of mental and emotional work to keep up with. Definitely alternate realities though – LSD lets you wander into otherworldly thoughts; Psilocybin lets you visualize them vividly; DMT slams them into your sensory apparatus like a brick wrapped in lemon
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.
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.
friendly Narwhal named Gershwin
You’ve met him, too?
Makes sense though.
