Comment on full tank 🚗

• 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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, if you drive a hybrid, have you ever thought of where your electricity comes from?

        No, I know where it comes from. The car’s internal combustion engine. Because that’s how hybrids work.

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My evs power comes from hydro and wind power, for which I pay a small extra fee for.

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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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      • nogrub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        oh you think your sorting and recycling actually does somethin my sweet summer child the hole getts deeper and deeper

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      • EatMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have 90% of my heating and cooling on solar and sell back to my neighbors. I ate probably 40% of my food last week from garden using my own compost. I don’t have enough plastic waste or waste in general too sort through.

        What do you do?

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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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure a full tank of gas is a sign of spending money. They don’t pay you to do it.

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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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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your car will not last forever. I got rid of my 2002 3 years ago when it broke down. The ev was cheaper.

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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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      • EatMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cope.

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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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