One thing more where we stop to follow the American dream, because it has turned into a nightmare.
which climbed to an average of $4.52 per gallon nationwide on Sunday,
€1.01 per literup from $2.98 per gallon
€0.67 per literI’m paying €2.29/lt on a cheap day right now. Americans can fuck right off with their complaining and their wasteful shitboxes.
To be fair to them, their average daily commute is about double of what it is over here in Europe and their public transport / alternative transport options are way more limited.
But yes, they definitely don’t help themselves by driving giant child killing death trucks that burn a gallon of fuel every few miles.
My point is they’re literally rubbing gas prices cheaper than at any point in my adult life in my face and then crying about it after making their own bed of mediocrity.
Its entirely their own fault and doing (shit infra, shit cars, shit investment, shit suburbia) and they were told its a bad idea every step of the way.
Fuck them.
The commute thing is so stupid to me. Sure you may not spend so much on fuel when it’s so cheap, but you’re spending the most valuable currency in the universe: time.
The thing is that everything you mention here is related to each other or is a consequence of each other. Car oriented urban planning leads to an explosion of distances which leads to an explosion of infrastructure and mobility costs and makes public transit unattractive or even unfeasible. All of that was kept together by dirt cheap fuel.
One can change that of course. The US was bulldozed for the car before and it can be transfirmed back to be transit oriented again. However even with the political will and the money, this will take decaded. Fuel prices can explode in weeks, for good.
That is a hole the US is in that it has dug itself. There is no easy way out.
Opens up article. Reads headline:
‘It’s literally going to break me.’ Commuting is now unaffordable for some American workers
And a picture of what is clearly America in the thumbnail…
Correct! To be specific, the USA portion of America
The US wants European NATO members to go to war with a country in the Middle East which happens to produce oil. Fuel costs make headlines in Europe, too.
Of course, this is relavant!
Especially those with huge, gas-guzzling trucks, I presume.
Yes, but the trend for bigger cars has blown over to Europe for quite some time now. I hope this oil crisis puts a stop to that, but I doubt it.
The crazy part of the article is really how it is legal that an employee of a hotel chain has to pay for entirely work related car trips with his private money, at least in substantial parts.
Utterly preposterous. Using personal vehicle for work is going to lose you money in any case. Uber is a particularly egregious example. The employer should be providing a company truck especially because not only is he travelling (so IRS mileage applies) but he’s hauling for them (so insurance company was advised of the business use, right? Licensing?) for free. It’s huge wear and tear that mileage rates don’t cover.
