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Fossy@programming.dev to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

US Energy Secretary says Americans have to drive less if they want lower gas prices

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US Energy Secretary says Americans have to drive less if they want lower gas prices

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Fossy@programming.dev to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says
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AAA said Labor Day travelers can expect the highest gas prices ever for this time of year. The national average for regular gas was $4.14 on Sunday.
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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    Also we’ll need you to return to office, get out there and support the failing restaurants, get your kids to school, take weekend trips to stimulate the economy, and NO MONEY FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT.

    If you could go ahead and do all that while driving less, yeaahh that’d be greeaatt. Incredible no one else thought of this. He’s not disconnected from reality at all.

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      All this time we were thinking it was a complicated mess created by reliance on the car and truck infrastructure and suburban sprawl growth over decades, and this guy comes along and just spits the simple truth. Where was he before, he could have saved so much energy. Genius.

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    Keep that in mind, truckers. Don’t drive as much and so far.

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    Too bad the entire fucking country is built with 1 mode of transportation in mind.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      a very inefficient i might add, and prone to collisions.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      Gove elon musk 100 billion dollars to solve this problem? Got it.

  • Fossy@programming.devOP
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    He isn’t completely wrong. He is just an asshole.

    This guy owns the largest oil company in Colorado.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/lilyogburn/2025/08/13/how-trumps-energy-secretary-built-a-100-million-fortune/

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      US Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright can get you a toe by this afternoon with nail polish.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        To be honest, the toenail polish is the easy part.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        Fuck the toe!

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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      The secretary of energy owns an oil company and apparently that’s not a blatant conflict of interests?

      Somehow I’m not surprised at all.

      • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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        Not a single cabinet member that isn’t there purely for self dealing.

  • XOXOX@lemmy.world
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    “Drive your emotional support vehicle less.”

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    Too bad America has invested nothing into viable alternatives to driving.

  • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.world
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    This Lemmy poster says Trump and his sicophants have to stay home more if they don’t want to be [REDACTED]

  • bowsertattoo@piefed.social
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    so fund transit

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      Not like that

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    Most sane thing this administration has ever said.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Or…hear me out:

    The MAGA Administration could be less VIRTUOSICALLY INCOMPETENT!

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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      Oil company profits are up. Have you seen the DOW

  • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Doubt they supported wfh though.

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    Maybe if we just worked a little more:

    And if we chose to live closer to work:

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    Meanwhile, data centers:

    jet engine generator

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    Well this fucking moron finally gets something right. Who’s gonna run it by MAGA?

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