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I love all the comments from other countries stating "oh that's still cheap."
Lil bro, I probably drive more in a month just for the menial shit I need to do than you do in a year, and I work from home.
We don't even fucking have sidewalks where I live.
Bro I live in the Netherlands one of the densest countries in the world, with great pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure and good public transportation. The average work commute here is still 40km per day that’s 200km a week so 120 miles per week. And the majority of people use the car to commute. Gas is €2.34/L and Diesel is €2.58/L that’s €8.84/gallon or $10.2/gallon for petrol and €9.57/gallon or $11/gallon for diesel.
So people all over the world are screwed even if they travel less. And even if you don’t use a car guess what will happen to food prices and public transportation ticket prices when diesel is as expensive as it is now.
Good news is, once enough of you cant afford the fuel anymore, you can easily convert one of the 8 lanes into a sidewalk.
Or even... gasp a cycle path. dun dun dunnnn
God I wish.
It really doesn't seem that far fetched. Though, we would have to collectively get more involved in city council/planning meetings
They said, sobbing
So.. what are you going to do about it?
Likely nothing because there's 100+ years of laws and momentum preventing any meaningful change.
Not to mention the cost and time required to make change is something that is no longer feesable in many instances as things stand. Making change even if you were to get everyone to agree not possible.
We can make things better going forward but in many cases we can't actually fix the existing problem with out displacing people and businesses. Damaging already struggling local economies and creating a larger homeless problem.
City planning is a brutal issue that frequently doesn't lend it self well to going back and fixing problems. The best in many cases is to stop fucking up in the first place on new construction. And band aid fix old.
Waves and waves of debt fueled expansion and gentrification; from the center outward.
Swap the F150 for a prius.
Roll less coal
I'm being mean. Your country is damn big. But your fuel is hella cheap. Do you drive 200 miles per day?
It's not impossible. I had a 1.5 hour one-way commute to work at one point.
Some people do.
I don't drive one of the giant brotrucks that I see daily, those guys are absolutely fucked. Gas is $4 where I am, but I expect it over $5 by the time summer hits and those assholes with their 8mpg highway are going to be hurting
I drive like... 200 miles every 2 weeks or so in total? I fill up once a month and at current prices that's about $60 for my car
It depends on the area, but it's not uncommon to drive more than 30 or 40 miles a day for a work commute in California (especially if you're trying to live in a cheaper area away from where the jobs are located).
At my university, one of my professors told me his commute to campus was about 2 hours, so I'd interpet that to an easy 50 miles from his home (my 4 hour commute to move onto the campus was roughly 100 miles)
For some reason this comment reminded me of that Cuban dude that retrofitted his car to run on coal because of American sanctions. What a world we live in.
there is literally one