Ben Jennings | Bluesky
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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”.


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!