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[–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

wait until you guys learn youre still paying less than every other country that kept to the kyoto accords.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    We also drive significantly more on average because our country gave up on public transit nearly 50 years before I was even born. The costs hit a whole lot harder when there's no public transit option to rely on.

    I'd love to commute by bus or train in the US. It's how I've been commuting in Germany and its fantastic. The price is negligible compared to what I had to pay to drive a car to work, and that's pre-Iran war.

    Anyway, I guess the point is when gas rises sharply it hurts the average person way more when you have to drive with no other options available.

    What's the point of a comment like this BTW? It seems unnecessarily decisive. We all know this is Trump's fault and that's the point of the post. To point out how callous our government is being to the average person that our suffering does not matter. Blame those in power, blame those that enabled this sack of shit, but why try to create unnecessary division? We shouldn't make this a competition on who's suffering the most. That answer is going to be the people from the poorest nations that cannot outbid wealthy nations for the remaining oil supply

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    What's the point of a comment like this BTW? It seems unnecessarily decisive.

    I'm not the person you are replying to but that's not how I read their comment at all.

    I read it as "The US has had 'artificially' low gas prices for a long time. Losing the supply will erase that advantage, so american people will suffer a lot from this" not "our gas prices are higher to start with so we are suffering more because of this".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    You do but I don't mean JUST Europe, there's Us to, and Australia and plenty of places in Europe are fairly car centric anyway.

    My only point is we all try to pay our fair share and not destroy the globe quite as fast but someone's over there saying drill baby drill.

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