Whatever makes you sleep at night bud

  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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    17 hours ago

    Pushing £2/litre here and I am still waiting for air quality to improve. Maybe £5/litre is necessary.

    Higher prices for most with reductions on red diesel could possibly be a good compromise.

    You don’t need a fucking SUV to go to the corner shop 500m away.

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      15 hours ago

      the corner shop 500m away

      A lot of Americans live 30 minutes from the nearest real grocery store.

      But yeah they still don’t need a lifted truck to go there. It’s not like the cashiers at the Wal Mart Super Center are going to be impressed by their Carolina Squat lifted white pavement princess, but that’s what they insist on driving.

      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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        15 hours ago

        30 minutes is cycling to another town here. Or if you want to drive during rush hour, it gets you half way down the main road.

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          14 hours ago

          That’s how the US is in certain metro areas. In the boonies there are hundreds of miles of rural back roads where people drive 60mph during rush hour.

          • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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            14 hours ago

            Metro? We don’t even have a train station here. Would have to cycle to another town for that, or take a bus/ferry.

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              13 hours ago

              I didn’t say you lived in a metro area. I said those distances and travel times are only realistic in the parts of the US people consider very densely populated.