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A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. -
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke.The thing about gas is, it's a trap.
Your car uses it up. Kinda like printers and ink. My car has about 97k miles on it, and my fuel stats say my average is about 35 mpg. (I only drive in city traffic, cuz I'm legally blind and can't exceed 45 mph).
97,000 divided by 35 is about 2770 gallons. Using data from the US Energy Information Administration (https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMRU_PTE_STX_DPG&f=W) the average price per gallon for the life of my car is $2.59.
That's $7,175 approximately. And that gas is *gone*. It's like toilet paper - you only use it once. Renewables are like a bidet - you use water, but water is part of a cycle - it can be cleaned and reused.
There's an excellent video about this by Tech Connextras on YouTube called "You are being misled about renewable energy technology," on the Tech Connextras channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I