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Comic by Ben Jennings.
Two guys standing at the pump at a Shell gas station. The guy at pump 2 holds up the gas pump nozzle to his ear and tells the guy at pump 1 “Apparently, if you hold a Shell pump to your ear you can hear the shareholders laughing at you”.
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Pro tip, if gas is expensive, don’t drive.
That doesn’t help the fact everything you need to buy which is transported goes up in price with gas prices to get it to you.
I made that choice two decades ago and I’m really glad to be car free. I moved away from a town without public transit and got jobs closer th where I live, or where I wouldn’t need a car. Even today I’m passing lots of job opportunities in my field because they want me to drive a car from one site to another, and I insist on taking public transit, or a bike. I’ve even been told I’m not a real adult as long as I don’t drive a car.
I’m telling the people around me that if they are to have a car, it should at least be electric, but both my mother and my sister bought a new car last year, and they’re gas powered, because they “don’t trust electric cars1!!1!”. Well, pay and whine. Be real adults and pay for your fucking expensive gas.
Millions of people could try to get rid of their bad habits, free themselves from their addiction to cars, drive less, switch to electric, find alternatives. But no. The only solution is cheap gas. Everyone just needs cheap gas. The US and the west can interfere in other countries’ elections, invade them, kidnap foreign leaders, hang them, kill a few hundred thousand civilians as “collateral damage”, as long as we have cheap gas, all is well in the world. There’s simply no other solution!
Now my commute to work is three hours, or twelve if I take my bike and I’m quick
Maybe you should live closer to where you work? A 12 hour bike ride is easily over 100 miles.
But then housing would be 20x more expensive, but at least I’d save on the fuel?
And save on time. I’ve easily paid 2x the rent for smaller place to have a short and pleasant work commute. Honestly worth every penny.
Because there’s no in-between of living in the downtown of a city and living 100 miles away?
A one hour car commute is fine, and no there is no in-between housing affordable anymore
You have to put some sort of “joke tag” on these. A /s or /j or something.
I wouldn’t even if I was joking.
If you chose to live 100 miles away from where you work, you can’t really complain when you have a long commute.
It’s not so easy to sell a house pick up and move, it’s the type of answer you get from someone with enough to be mobile which excludes more than 90% of the country.
Not to mention that living close to where the jobs are can be prohibitively expensive.
I’ll go ahead and jump in before “you should have chosen a different line of work in a different part of the world where the problems you weren’t expecting don’t exist to the same extent yet.”
This is kind of a false dichotomy. It’s not like your only options are living downtown 2 mins walk from your office or living over 100 miles from your office.
100 miles is like working in Manhattan and living in Catskill. Which actually lines up pretty well with what OP said, Google says thats 3 hours by public transit and 12 hours by bike… But it’s also 2 hours 20 mins by car…
Why would you buy a house 100 miles away from your job in the first place? / Why would you get a job 100 miles away from where you live?
And if you did do that, then just don’t complain your commute is long? Like I’m not saying you’re not allowed to do that or it makes you a bad person or some shit, just don’t complain about how long your commute is.
You buy a house where you work, you don’t work there anymore and it’s not a small cost to move.
What’s with the pump colors? Are they like that in some countries?
I don’t understand why the US lacks some of these small but very helpful visual cues.
It’s like the dollar bills all being green (and the same size?). If you have limited vision it’s really hard to see the difference between the bills. I think every other currency I know uses different colours (and sizes) for each bill to make them easier to distinguish.
Same with street signs. Why use text like “speed limit” or “one way” when you can use symbols and colours for this? For people who can’t read (English) it’s so unnecessarily confusing.
And a last example I noticed again recently… Why is the nutritional information text on American products so confusing? It only says the amount of sugar, fat, carbs etc per serving. But a serving is such an arbitrary amount sometimes, I basically always want to know the percentage too so I can much more easily compare products. Like this.
I’m sure there’s some things that are designed better in the US, but I remember these things from when I went to visit years ago and being quite surprised.
Why is the nutritional information text on American products so confusing?
It’s literally because of bribes from large corporations. Out government does not represent people, only capital.
I don’t speak Swedish chef.
Yeah. Instead of having buttons for different grades, they just have different pumps. Also looking back at it, one is probably diesel, and one (the green one likely) is eco fuel / ethanol
Green is petrol
Black is diesel
Others are random shit like premium
Oh okay, here in the US green is always diesel, and the pumps wouldn’t be multi-colored like that on the left, they’re all solid colors.
Green should be cheese and onion.
That’s a really good point 😳
In Canada diesel is usually yellow
Omg yellow is I guess what we’d call eco fuel, usually e85, but it’s not really widespread, depending on where you live you may never see e85 fuel
It is required for diesel vs regular but not the different grades. there will always be fuel in the hose between each pump and therefore it will always mix.
I thought I recalled Premium and Regular being on differ hoses tho. Just from my brief tenure abroad
Yeah even in the US diesel and E85 (eco fuel / ethanol) have different hoses and different larger nozzle sizes cause they can ruin an engine that doesn’t support them.
Some engines require it yes, but it’s still the same fuel and mixing in a tiny bit of regular with premium is not the same as mixing a little bit of diesel with premium.
I thought that was a racist caricature at first
The white guy is plotting by telling this fact, so the black guy can be confused and then the white guy will strike and steal his money for the fuel. Probably.
I miss Stonetossing Juice
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