Let us cry together
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This looks like Silent Hill or maybe a Resident Evil so Imma go out on a limb and guess that Japanese developers don't know how much gas actually costs here.
Or, if this is indeed Silent Hill 2, they're using average prices of the Eastern US from back in the 70s/80s, where the game is set (according to the dev; shit looks more like the 90s to me).
️wrote on last edited by [email protected]Resident Evil takes place in 1998, and apparently the average cost was $1.06 per gallon at the time. Obviously, they just put the average price on the sign rather than deviating from it a little bit for realism, but it does look fairly accurate. Apparently it was $1.23 the year before and $1.17 the year after so it wasn’t always that nice.
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If you think high gas prices are terrible for the poor, wait till you see how climate change will effect the poor
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Yeah exactly, one is fucking them over right now and one will add to the misery later.
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Yeah exactly, one is fucking them over right now and one will add to the misery later.
No, climate change is fucking over the poor now. If it's not fucking you over, you're not as poor as you think you are.
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That's about $6.50/gallon.
In the Midwest it starts looking high at half that
The US has some of the cheapest gas in the world outside the OPEC countries (and I think Venezuela is cheap too). Japan right now is about $4.50/gal
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No, climate change is fucking over the poor now. If it's not fucking you over, you're not as poor as you think you are.
"Well clearly you're not poor enough to be in a shit situation, that's why it's fine to make your life even harder"
Lmao. Someone struggling to make ends meet working two jobs sure will appreciate this sentiment.
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The US has some of the cheapest gas in the world outside the OPEC countries (and I think Venezuela is cheap too). Japan right now is about $4.50/gal
Yeah, I'm not sure about the mechanics, but I'm sure plenty of palms are greased to keep gas prices low. It's one of the things people like to blame on the president.
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I remember those prices. I was there, when we went past a dollar and the gas station attendant was pissed saying, "we'll never see it under a dollar ever again", and he was right.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I remember when it went past $2 because I worked at a gas station at the time and all the patrons were pissed. This was before pay at the pump, so people would come in to the register and pay cash mostly. They would also bitch and moan. Yeah - sorry it isn’t my fault. I was making minimum wage and had my first car. I wasn’t too happy either.
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"Well clearly you're not poor enough to be in a shit situation, that's why it's fine to make your life even harder"
Lmao. Someone struggling to make ends meet working two jobs sure will appreciate this sentiment.
Talk to the subsistence farm in Africa who's annual rainfall is getting disrupted or Islanders like the people of Tuvalu who have to evacuate because their homes are too close to sea. How much CO2 have they put into the atmosphere?
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I remember when it went past $2 because I worked at a gas station at the time and all the patrons were pissed. This was before pay at the pump, so people would come in to the register and pay cash mostly. They would also bitch and moan. Yeah - sorry it isn’t my fault. I was making minimum wage and had my first car. I wasn’t too happy either.
Minimum wage? I bet it was stupidly low back then. Probably like $7.25
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Talk to the subsistence farm in Africa who's annual rainfall is getting disrupted or Islanders like the people of Tuvalu who have to evacuate because their homes are too close to sea. How much CO2 have they put into the atmosphere?
You are genuinely "children in Africa are starving" the concerns of poor people lmao. Fuck the poor, they're not poor enough to have their concern matter
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I assumed fast walking to be 5 km/h and you said 2 hours.
I'm totally with you, but the US mobility problem is fucked since the 1950s and now there's no easy solution. The bigger picture is that every investment into car-only infrastructure will hurt the working poor and precariat.
A short-term solution could be raising fossil fuel taxes and subsidising people who cannot afford any other mode of transportation with a part of that money.
subsidising people
by building better public transport infrastructure
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Gas is actually cheaper now than it used to be when I started driving in the 2010s. At that time, gas was over $4 a gallon at times and $4 was worth more back then. It still blows my mind that most of the people whining about gas prices are out here buying giant trucks and SUVs that get like 20 mpg on the highway, meanwhile my experience with gas prices made me rank fuel efficiency as one of my top priorities in a new vehicle.
