I’m just happy I bought two electric cars to replace my old ones back in January. Now, for both cars combined, I spend a total £30 on ‘fuel/electric’ a month. Also electric cars are just a million times better in every respect.
Me with my tiny range electric car finally being smug about something.
Indeed, fuel in Japan is higher than in Europe. In the USA, fuel should take a backseat and the cost of healthcare should be the main topic for change.
Actual weekly gas spending as a household budget item is probably higher in the US on average.
Ill complain about whatever I want, fuck you
At least the Europeans have public transportation
This is about americain people. I don’t think this adress to us, french people.
It’s bad for us both and arguing about who has it worse is childish and stupid
And also it’s always the Europeans that have it worse.
Laughs in doesn’t even own a car
But overall they have it better because their villages and towns were made for people and not cars.
i wanna punch him
To paraphrase Bill Nye, eye protection on; if you raise the cost of fossil fuels, fewer people will use them; eye protection off.
No idea about this. I drive a Honda Civic in the US, and hardly notice gas prices. I’m much more concerned about food prices, rent prices, and unemployment rate.
At least you have a car you can sleep in if rent gets too high. I hope its paid off.
1,84 cad/L out here.
The meme captures the absolute frustration in Europe and the rest of the world for our spiralling costs. Costs arising directly from the elected President illegally attacking Iran, without discussing with anyone but Israel.
We’re not arguing who has the greater car / truck dependency. But for those still wanting to pursue the point, don’t forget that Europeans pay considerably more taxes for our public services and so more tax now too.
This is true, but the risks of the oil economy have been known for a very long time. Everybody knows that the oil/auto fuel supply chain is in areas with fragile geopolitical relations and it’s not like this hasn’t happened before.
What we should be doing is channeling our frustration toward transitioning from ICE automobiles to EVs[1], but look at how slowly European carmakers are adapting. The rate of change in Germany has been embarrassingly slow and China is galaxies ahead of anyone else. We need to invest and compete, rather than throwing up our hands and blaming others for fucking up things we shouldn’t be depending on anymore.
[1]: and improving public transit too of course
Yes yes and thrice, yes. 🙏
I’m not really convinced China is that far ahead of everyone else in the EV market. Sure, they have cheap cars, but is the quality better? I haven’t tried a lot, but to me it seems the quality and features are pretty much the same as european, japanese or south korean. I just bought a Japanese car, because the BYD that was comparable but cheaper just felt like a toy car. Everything about the interior just felt like cheap plastic. The infotainment screen was a mess, and I had to go into 3 (3!) submenus to turn on the heated seats.
I’m not convinced the chinese cars are better. They’re comparable and cheap, but it’s not like they offer something no one else does.
I can speak from point of view of having a new electric made in France Renault Megane with a pretty fancy interior and a new made in China electic Dacia which is super basic and say I do not care a jot about interior quality… what I am loving is the incredible reliability, the instant start, the incredible torque and acceleration even from the tiny cheap Dacia. (Just don’t floor the Dacia because the tyres are the weak point) and you can get dramatic wheel spin!
Agreed, they probably are cheap garbage (I myself don’t know, I haven’t driven cars regularly in a while), but two things:
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Manufacturing volume is really important in making cars. You need know-how, you need experts and ways to make things better and deliver incremental improvements, and that becomes a lot easier when you have higher volumes.
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People don’t have lots of cash to burn these days - quality is easy to sacrifice when you don’t have the cash to pay up.
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How do you do, fellow non-Americans!? Colour me gobsmacked at the euros I’m paying when I procure my petrol (by the liter! this is non-negotiable) to fill my tiny aluminium moped.
Have at it bro, you guys elected a diaper-wearing moron for the SECOND TIME because of the price of eggs 😅
Shaming someone for wearing diapers, which is in and of itself completely harmless, and not for the fact that their government is sending minorities into concentration camps and burning the planet down hurts people who wear diapers that survive like you and me much more than it hurts the addressee.
You have to say quart instead of liter or they don’t get it. It’s close enough.
I say, good looking out, ol’ chap! Yeer a good laddie!
Honestly when Americans chime in about anything going on in the world. When I hear an American complaining about another country or their actions, I just want Americans to sit down or go fix their own dumpster fire. I
Baby needs to be thrown out with the bathwater. It was a fun project, but at some point everyone needs to cut their losses, and accept that uncontrolled capitalism is not it.
So then get to it, throw out the bath water as it were and use that 2nd amendment, otherwise it’s all just talk and do nothing and let it go on
I’m not american, but you’re right.
Sounds like you misunderstood the analogy, I don’t think the person you’re referring to has 2nd amendment rights.
Too many people here still think the problem is just Trump. They might temporarily agree with you but I guarantee if we get some shill like Newsom as our president in 2029 most people will go back to sleep.
I’m afraid things will have to get much worse here for the average suburbanite before they realize the dumpster is even on fire.
I don’t see how you guys aren’t scrambling and begging for Newsom at this point. You think the rest of us around the world haven’t had to hold our nose and vote for a crappy politician to not let the fascists win? It sucks but it’s the only option you have. Staying home is actively helping the fascists. You guys ignored the issue for too long and frankly now it’s too late. There is no more time to pout and turn your nose up at the people opposing Trump
I never said I wouldn’t prefer him to Trump. My point is that America has been a proto-fascist imperialist wrecking ball for far longer than Trump has been around and that’s only possible because too many Americans are brainwashed and propagandized into an absolute stupor.
And as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the main difference between Trump and Newsom is decorum. Newsom would absolutely continue supporting genocide in Gaza, sanctions against Cuba, nuclear brinksmanship with N Korea, and reckless belligerence against China. Yes, he’d do it with more tact, but that’s not much comfort to the people being starved and bombed.
Californian here, Newsom is only mildly better than a fascist as is. Dude would’ve been a Republican back in the 70s but the Republicans as a brand are too toxic to gain and hold substantial influence in the state.
Just look at his stupid ass podcast and his interview with the ol bleedy neck, he is far too nice to him and all but grovels. It’s all rather pathetic, but regardless he would most likely be worse than Biden or even a milksop like Harris. Him getting the nomination would be four steps back, here’s hoping he catches a bad case of death before 2028 assuming the US even survives to that point.
I’d happily pay European-level taxes on my gas if my taxes didn’t purely fund war and keeping the rich in power
I’d pay those taxes if the dumb wars ended, we did not have a scammy healthcare system, and a public safety net that actually functioned well plus not having to use fucking middle men to pay my goddamn taxes every year…
I’d happily pay European-level taxes on my gas if I had literally any alternative to driving in my area.
I’d happily pay european-level taxes on my gas if we had the same amount of affordable electric alternatives.
Which country doesn’t do that?
My bike doesn’t take gas, and (for now) my bus pass costs the same as it did before my government’s latest bout of war crimes in Iran started.
your bike does take gas. has your grocery bill seemed to have gotten bigger?
Fair enough, but I have some bike fuel reserves under my epidermis that I was hoping to unload anyway.
In all seriousness, this is a bad situation for everyone. But I still consider myself lucky to have a car free life right now.
Spin it any way you want, stores are supplied by gas guzzlers
