Comment on full tank 🚗

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s the part about being happy about it that I don’t like. I drive a hybrid, but that’s about saving money more than anything. I’m not happy to see the tank at full. It just reminds me of my contribution to making things worse.

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  • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aww man you’re falling for their bullshit 😞

    The biggest impetus to change isn’t your personal consumer habits. It’s industry. And they want you to feel like YOU aren’t doing enough while they do jack shit except fuck over the rest of us every day so they can jerk each other off with their quarterly earnings reports.

    (I’m not saying we should all be rolling coal, that’s stupid and gross and childish. Just that we shouldn’t internalize anxiety about ‘doing enough’)

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, we can do both…

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      • SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, if you drive a hybrid, have you ever thought of where your electricity comes from? Probably a very inefficient coal or natural gas plant! Also, its not the gas gauge, its the engine heat gauge lol.

        Point is, don’t fret over your fossil fuel usage. Big corporations use more fossil fuels a day than you will ever use in your lifetime, even if you drive a fuel guzzling truck.

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    • nogrub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      to me it’s funny all theese climate protectors beleave the proaganda of oil companies the normal human ilhas all the fault not the companies. pssst we should start at the companies then go to the everyday human. and on the topic of ev’s i would rather drive a hydrogen car swap out the tank of your combustion car and all that comes from your exhaust is water without having to produce millions of new cars and without having the drawbacks ev’s have

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    • EatMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not my fault 🤦‍♂️

      An entire generation that’s fully educated on the matter and still punting it down the road. Classic.

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      • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hey make sure you sort your recycling if it makes you feel better.

        Don’t worry about mine tailings leaching into the groundwater or the fact that our communities are designed around needing to own a vehicle, it’s us average folks that aren’t doing enough!

        You’re a sucker, sorry.

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let’s all live in shame because we can afford electric. I hate to tell you the huge amount of emissions that go into producing the electric cars in the factories too. Also the new renewable resources that go into them.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Again, it’s about being happy about it. You don’t have to live in shame. There are other options.

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Full tank of gas is a sign of getting paid, it feels good.

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      $300/year to drive 10,000 miles per year feels pretty good though. Also, zero emission at the tailpipe.

      Everyone will be driving ev within 10 years.

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      • EatMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lolololol 👌

        I’ll definitely spend more to get less car and break even after 10 years of owning an EV.

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You crazy if you think we’ll all be EV in 10 years, as much as I wish that’d be true

        I still drive a 2002 lol

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  • THED4NIEL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, having to worry about getting around all month on a mostly empty tank, side-eyeing the gauge at every traffic light at the commute to work isn’t that great.

    I know a few people that had a hard time paying for gas to even get to work and when they managed to fill the tank they felt relieved, so I can understand where those people come from.

    I personally am glad I can work from home, just saves so much gas. Fill it up, use it for 1-2 months to buy groceries, visit people, drive to the few work appointments that don’t work over Teams.

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    • EatMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You still realize that electricity isn’t free and in many places is close to the cost of gas, especially at super chargers?

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      • THED4NIEL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I drive a plug-in hybrid and a full tank means I accidentally overfilled since it’s just going to sit in the tank for months at a time.

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    • THED4NIEL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It doesn’t go bad so fast though.

      As a rule of thumb: gas is good 2-3 months in a car tank, before it’s ability to properly combust deteriorates. It wont go bad immediately, but it’s power yield worsens over time, so does your car’s mpg, because it needs more gas to compensate.

      Just don’t let it sit there like half a year

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• fer0n@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hopeful they’ll get cheaper quickly

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  • zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are, but not quickly enough.

    Ten years ago we got the Nissan Leaf, and now you can buy cars with 2x the range for almost half the price.

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    • Ton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s the technology curve. We’re now at the iPhone 3GS stage. The iPhone 4 of EVs is just around the corner. It will only get better (not cheaper) from here.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chevy bolt is $26k out the door

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    • EatMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      27.5k And you’ll get less car for it. It’s small, and bumping it up to 2lt puts it over 30k. Every EV it’s still more expensive, even with credits most of the time, then it’s equivalent ICE competition.

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      • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Right but with the credits mine was comparable to an equivalent ICE. So why would I ever pick the ICE car? More maintenance, have to pay more for fuel. No thanks.

        Not arguing EVs are more expensive on average but if the price is the same, the only reason to go ICE is if you travel looooong distances refularly.

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Less car? It’s actually pretty big. 200 hp, tons of torque, 0-60 in 6 seconds, lots of room in the back. Fits 4 adults, car seats easily fit. Lots of headroom and leg room.

        I can smoke BMWs off the line all day. And it saves me about $1,000 in fuel costs per year.

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• nogrub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i’ll glady swap to electric if the battery technology gets better and dosen’t use nickel cobalt and lithium and if you don’t know please google pictures of the mines and effects of theese mines

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