Comment on Emissions go brrrr

• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Taking that at face value: does the “to save $2 on gas” part apply at that point, though? Because I imagine if you’re waiting an hour for gas at Costco, the other gas stations are equally or near-equally saturated. Because the meme is clearly implying that the drivers are at the Costco when they could go somewhere else with a substantially lower wait.

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t live in Seattle, but the Costco locations near me also regularly have long queues. That rarely happens at other filling stations. There isn’t a shortage of gasoline currently; it’s just expensive.

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So in my case I actually don’t drive but it was my ex spouse who does this. They’re really car brained and easily tricked by marketing stuff. The idea of saving a bit would make all other considerations vanish from their mind and sitting idling in a car for an hour was a neutral experience. I did get them to try turning the car off during the waiting but the issue is the line actually moved pretty fast it was just incredibly long. They didn’t like having to turn the car on every like 30 seconds to move a few feet then turn it off again. This is the same person who refused to walk 15min to work and would instead drive 5-15min depending on traffic, 10min to find parking, 5min walk to get from car to work.

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