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    Diesel in Denmark is 11.2 USD/gallon … but do keep complaining about your luxuriously low gas prices, which BTW was caused by the POTUS too many Americans couldn’t be bothered to vote against.

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      but if Kamala won, all those Palestinian children would die!

      she’s just as bad as Trump!

      this is what they actually believe
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      In Canada where I live, diesel is 9.2 USD/G converted, but can reach much higher (10.5$+) in other regions on Canada.

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    Remember when all the coal rolling micropenises were whacking “I did that!” stickers stickers on everything?

    Wonder what they’re all blaming now their man, Mango Mussolini and his team of cum-guzzling sycophants and fascist handlers are fully in charge?

    Is it still somehow Biden’s fault? What’s their play here?

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    Californian gas prices disturb Americans and Europeans alike.

    They just disagree with the direction in which the price must be wrong.

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      10,30 USD/Gallon in Germany, Sweden… I don’t know… But you might begin to understand why it might be smarter not to drive around in gas guzzling tanks? Or switch to electric. Or use smaller cars. Or even… BOTH?

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    Diesel is over $7/gal, it’s fucking wild out here.

    I got a big pay bump last October and I felt like for the first time since the 00’s I was finally out of the “just getting by” pay curve for Bay Area California and then this Iran war shit happens and now everything including gas is more expensive, clawing back all the gains I’ve made.

    At least there’s a chance things might go back to normal if this shit ever ends, but I expect that prices are going to stay high long after the justification for raising them vanishes, just like with inflation.

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      I left California 35 years ago and never looked back. The prices were too high then, and have gotten exponentially worse since. The people are all fake and full of themselves.

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    Around $9 in Scotland if you’re lucky. Big price spike lately cos of your war in the gulf. Cheers America!

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    Be glad. Here fuel costs around 8-9 dollars equivalent for the same amount, thanks to your senile president.

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    Awww, did someone get addicted to unsustainable energy sources that are artificially cheap due to externalized costs?

    Edit: For context, the highest price shown in this picture is still 32% cheaper than gas was in Germany BEFORE your genius president decided to start a war, and around 42% cheaper than it is now. And seeing as we’re still burning fossils like there’s no tomorrow, it is apparently not nearly expensive enough yet.

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      California has one of the highest renewables usage and has the highest energy price.

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        No, it’s not. We all know that we cannot afford to put any more CO2 into the atmosphere. So reasonably, any new CO2 that is emitted would have to be (permanently) removed via carbon capture. That would be the true cost of emitting CO2, but instead, these effects are externalized to global society as a whole, making gas at the pump artificially cheap by cheating everyone else.

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        Well, y’all had the chance to elect people less influenced by the oil lobby. and y’all collectively failed.

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          At no point in my lifetime have we had a chance to elect anyone not influenced by capital lobbyists. Our elections are a farce where the choices are between letting things get worse or keeping them the same. We’re ratcheting further and further into hell every few years and given nothing but the illusion of choice to prevent it. The votes and opinions of the working class have literally no statistical influence on legislation passed in this country. None.

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          Yep, 1/3 of us choose not to show up, because the candidate wasn’t perfect or they couldn’t be bothered, along with the disenfranchisement of people due to “voting reform”.

          I wish it mattered that a lot of us voted against this shit, but just as many wanted it/didn’t care, so here we are. It fucking sucks here 😕

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            I’m not just talking about Kamala here - Bernie being listed while running on a pretty popular programme, just because the right would audibly consider it “communist” (while they’d still do so even if the Democrats brought out a plan that matched the GOP 99.999%) is another good example.

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              Same answer applies. We consistently have a third of the population sit out of the general, and only a fraction of voters participate in primaries.

              Too many are apathetic and don’t participate, or become so entrenched in purity politics and reject anything that could stem the bleeding because it’s too middle of the road and stay home. A lot of our problems could be solved by an active and informed electorate, but too many want perfection and are willing to sacrifice passable to get less than nothing.

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            No, because my country has continuously overthrown (or at least tried to overthrow) authoritarian regimes that served other interests rather than the people’s, for the past 300 years alone.