Right wing “solutions” to difficulties are always insincere, unreasonable nonsense like this.
Can’t pay your bills? Eat less! Can’t afford medical care? Shouldn’t have been unhealthy! Gas prices killing you? Drive less! Depressed and burned out? Just be happy and work harder! You think billionaires are greedy? Well what charities are you giving to!? Tired of capitalist exploitation? Stop buying stuff and go live in the woods! You love immigrants? Well then let them all live in your home!
Victim blaming dressed up as rugged individualism. Meanwhile those actually responsible for the hardships get off scot-free.
Build trolleys and trains you fuckers
And bicycle infrastructure, please.
Sorry didn’t you hear, bikes are dei now.
Isn’t using gas to drive somewhere dei too? Or happened that after 2026?
I think that depends on the day of the week
Then you wind up with this problem
Trams*
Also, subways and more busses, just public transport overall (obviously).
I bet the trick to lowering health care costs is to need health care less, too.
Aha! You’ve figured out their ingenuous strategy! /s
But seriously, what in the smooth-brained bullshit is this kind of logic?!
It’s the same shit they did & still do with COVID-19 testing. ‘If we do less tests, there will be less cases recorded! Problem solved!’
I save money on healthcare by spending 1/4 of my paycheck on health insurance and then absolutely never using it - hoping I cease existing if anything occurs.
These people literally don’t understand economics beyond the absolute basics of supply and demand.
that won’t work. if everyone were to stop driving or relying on gas tomorrow. the oil companies would still raise the price because they are now “losing money” due to low demand and have to raise prices to make up for the make-believe money they are “losing”
No, with production then vastly too high they wound try to sell as much as possible to at least make some money before/during/after shutting down. But you are free point out where a product got obsolete/not bought and still more expensive despite high production in the past.
And, let’s all return to the office while we’re driving less, right?
Return to the office, don’t return home. Don’t go anywhere else. No driving.
*points at forehead*
Sounds great! I look forward to your heavy federal investment into mass transit
(not like that)
I assume he doesn’t think this should be paired with ramping up public transit options and bike and pedestrian friendly infrastructure
no, thats evil socialist communism, you unamerican traitor! /s
Wait until he figures out that wfh is a great way to reduce driving
The fact that more employers haven’t jumped at WFH is so telling. It’s basically equivalent to an increase in salary, an improvement in employee work life balance, and a wider recruitment pool all wrapped into one without them actually having to do anything, except maybe spend LESS money on overhead.
It’s something we could easily change to improve the lives of everyone and help the environment. I’m really disappointed we’re not seeing more support for it.
Its because a massive amount of our real estate economy is propped up by artificially inflated office space which would kneecap a ton of corporate and REIT profits if they were to go down to actually affordable costs.
I can’t think of many groups more richly deserving financial ruin.
That would mean almost all employers are somehow invested in office space, so much that they rather cripple their business. But that is clearly not the case.
No, just the big corporate ones and specifically the Companies and groups that hold major stock in a lot of other corps.
Adds another lane: drive less!
Stops construction of another public transport project: Drive Less!!
Removes solar power and electric car subsidies: DRIVE Less!
Makes electric bikes illegal: DRIVE LESS!
(Party of freedom, btw)
If it were a dem saying this maga would be crying tyranny like they did with masks during covid.
Supports/encourages RTO policies: Drive less!
Forces for federal employees. More restrictive than pre COVID.
And meanwhile, here in the UK, the average is $8.40 per US gallon at the current exchange rate.
If Dems said that before the '24 election, to eat less food and drive less to save money, everyone would go mad lol, but this magafool says it and they cool with it.
Vice-versa too in some communities.
Hope all the miserable assholes who voted for stopping electrification feel it in every part of them. I hope they have to give up on real, meaningful life dreams forever because they are now unaffordable. And I hope their houses specifically burn down in the wildfires the CO2 from their gasoline made so common.
I am beyond done with this gasoline bullshit.
Gas in my region is well over $5 a gallon I don’t notice because we went from 2 cars to 1, and the one is an EV.
Meanwhile I STILL see these absolute morons buying huge gas suvs and trucks because… They need to? Always have a bullshit excuse that’s always easily debunked.
We are at $10.20/Galllon (2.30€/L) and I am so happy I do not need a car.
Y’all buying gas by the hour?
Ha, at this point I wouldn’t be surprised. Fixed it!
You can just electrify on your own though, regardless of what the government wants.
There are a lot of things people can do on their own… in a world where the median US income isn’t $45,000 and responsible and capable products aren’t tariffed to hell.
Mass adoption comes with affordability which comes with support and clear, intentional direction. Consumers don’t shift paradigms when they think the new paradigm won’t go anywhere. We can’t even get people off of X - and that costs NOTHING.
Electrifying on your own is prohibitively expensive for most people, and the fact that those people have to be prepared to also pay an additional premium because they’re fighting their own government at the same time, in a period in time where people can barely afford FOOD, is not tenable.
Using energy costs more money than not using it. With the amount of people flying every day don’t tell me cost is the problem.
With the amount of people flying every day don’t tell me cost is the problem.
Cost is part of the problem.
Dumbass, you think the median person is flying everyday??
There can be some high cost barriers to that in the US.
The trick to lowering gas prices is insert gif of guilottine coming down
You can pry my demand destruction from my cold hands by crashing the economy and laying me off!
