am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva We need (t(ele/rans)porter/portal)s!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva We need a transition out and fast. This government won’t give it to us, though, preferring the havoc they’re creating. But streetcars? Small mass transit combined with as much telework as practicable (including public coworking spaces for those who prefer them)? More local delivery (à la ice, milk, meat trucks of yore, but with the benefit of preorder online)? More gardening collectives by neighborhood to make use of the often-arable soils cities are sited over? These things could be done with the existing structures while we begin pivoting the architecture. The houses aren’t built to last more than a century, we can turn things over in place and mitigate the shock that always ends up crushing the poor first.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva " gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre"... Gas it's barely $2.50 per liter in 2026. In the ‘90s, it was under $1 per liter in Europe FYI
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva $20? Let's go for $40!!!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva In the US it was a 1.5 mile walk to our nearest coffee shop, which was the closest shop of any kind - I walked to the cafe only about three times in more than ten years. I was sick of having to get in the car for every single errand.
When I moved back to the UK, I spent three weeks traveling by bus and train to different towns and cities. I found a perfect walkable place with good transport links and a lively high street, but there are an awful lot of towns with abandoned centres and out of town retail parks with limited if any bus services. Away from the major population centres, it would be difficult to cope without a car.
I'm coming up to three years happily car-free, but the UK could still use more effort revitalising towns and improving public transport links.
I spoke to shop owners in my travels, the main problem that they shared was extortionate shop rents. For tax reasons, it seems the property owners literally do not care if the shop is empty or occupied. I suspect also that the "value" of the building is related to the rent cost - whether or not there are tenants.
Another town (Harlow, where I lived as a kid) used to have a thriving shopping centre and a large busy market. The town council decided to use the market stall space rents as a revenue stream. Within a few years the market was gone. Now, the market square with its almost entirely gutted surrounding shops looks like a set from The Walking Dead.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva It's a zoning problem as well. You can't build or open a corner bodega or cafe in most neighborhoods in the US. That's what makes them deserts.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva
️️️ 4 bucks a gallon is fucking cheap, here its like 2.5 dollars a litre -
@blogdiva It is already ±$6 in parts of California. I would like more mass transit, but in a county of 65,000 people in the California foothills, one can only expect so much.
I still need some kind of vehicle to transport 40 lb sacks of chicken feed. My birds insist.
(and the two full-size bags of potting soil, 5' plant trellises, and 15 gal pots, waiting to be unloaded, when it stops raining)
@c_merriweather @blogdiva Somewhere on one of my hard drives, I have pics of me hauling > 80lbs (two sack of feed plus misc other chicken/duck supplies) by cargo bike
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/116297846609329025
@blogdiva inflation-adjusted!
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@blogdiva " gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre"... Gas it's barely $2.50 per liter in 2026. In the ‘90s, it was under $1 per liter in Europe FYI
@letscallhimsteve not in Italy and Spain. diesel and whatever the one y’all mix with ethanol was cheaper but not 100% petrol like it’s sold in the USA. was shocked when visiting friends out there. they had to hack their cars to run the cheaper stuff.
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@blogdiva It's a zoning problem as well. You can't build or open a corner bodega or cafe in most neighborhoods in the US. That's what makes them deserts.
@cmars yup
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RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/116297846609329025
@blogdiva inflation-adjusted!
@Andres4NY my fave!
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@blogdiva
️️️ 4 bucks a gallon is fucking cheap, here its like 2.5 dollars a litre@blogdiva also I cant be bothered converting litres to gallons cause im not an imperial chud so suck it americans
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@blogdiva also I cant be bothered converting litres to gallons cause im not an imperial chud so suck it americans
@yugthebug
But the US doesn't use imperial measurements, they use American Customary Units
Of particular relevance here the US gallon is approximately 3.8 L, compared to the Imperial gallon which is about 4.65 L
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@yugthebug
But the US doesn't use imperial measurements, they use American Customary Units
Of particular relevance here the US gallon is approximately 3.8 L, compared to the Imperial gallon which is about 4.65 L
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.@blogdiva I don’t think it was 7 dollars per liter in the 90s in Europe. It’s not 7 dollars per liter now.
But it sure has been at least twice the US price at all times.
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@letscallhimsteve not in Italy and Spain. diesel and whatever the one y’all mix with ethanol was cheaper but not 100% petrol like it’s sold in the USA. was shocked when visiting friends out there. they had to hack their cars to run the cheaper stuff.
@blogdiva $7 a litre is unheard of, not now, not in the '90s. Current prices are around €2 a litre. In the ‘90s, the price in Italy (for example) was below L.1000 a litre, that is the equivalent of €0.45.
I'm referring to "100% petrol like it's sold in the USA", whatever that means.
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@c_merriweather @blogdiva Somewhere on one of my hard drives, I have pics of me hauling > 80lbs (two sack of feed plus misc other chicken/duck supplies) by cargo bike
@Andres4NY
I know it is possible, but I would rather not haul feed sacks on any kind of bicycle on my local roads. It may work on level roads, but not here.Our roads are heavily traveled, 2 lane mountain roads, have 55 mph speed limits, along with tourists (who can't drive) and trucks. It just not my idea of a safe ride on any day. Plus it is 10 miles to the town. (Cars are not even safe, I had a deer jump in front of my car twice here, for $$$$ repair costs.)
My solution is to combine my trips, and only go into town once or twice a week, as necessary. And avoid wildlife.
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@blogdiva amen. When are you running for office because killing the suburbs is on my agenda, too!
The only draw back with $20/gal gas prices is that if oil is expensive then coal isn’t and that is a problem.
@psoul Why would expensive oil make coal cheaper?
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@blogdiva It is already ±$6 in parts of California. I would like more mass transit, but in a county of 65,000 people in the California foothills, one can only expect so much.
I still need some kind of vehicle to transport 40 lb sacks of chicken feed. My birds insist.
(and the two full-size bags of potting soil, 5' plant trellises, and 15 gal pots, waiting to be unloaded, when it stops raining)
@c_merriweather @blogdiva 65000 people is enough to have a decent public transport system, and a network of cycle tracks, and local shops you could have visited twice a week or more often to pick up bird feed, as would happen in most civilised countries.
