Whatever makes you sleep at night bud
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.
Pic I took the other day, price was the same when I drove past it last night

Smells like cope.

Talking points have been distributed
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’.
lol yeah. I don’t think any of those words need stressing though. Works fine without it. 😄
Huh, they let Betty be a lesbian.
How can you tell from this picture?
Beep Boop beep I keep hearing people complain…
Saya terus-menerus mendengar orang mengeluh…
Is this not a joke?
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.
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).
Yea, combined cycle gas turbine power plants are pushing above 60% efficiency. They use the waste heat from the turbine exhaust to generate steam and then extract energy from there. About as good as it gets.
Cars could be a lot better if emissions wasn’t a concern.
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.
It’s literally a bot with made-up talking points. This isn’t a a real person.
I had some really good ramen last night at one of the conveyor belt sushi places.
Super expensive.
But good.
DM ME NOODlES!
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
Nothing beats bicycle when it’s comes to efficiency.
Well that’s a minute of my life I’ll never get back.
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.
… 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
I have know idea, that’s just what people say. I can see why that would not be recreational.
Is this going to be another thread of people taking an obvious joke seriously
well…
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 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.
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.)
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.
I know people who post this unironically. They are too far gone
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.
30mpg? what you guys are driving, an Abrams
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.












