• eatCasserole@lemmy.world
    151·
    3 months ago

    I ride past the gas station on my way to work and think “$1.69? Them’s rookie numbers. Let’s see if you can crack $2/litre.”

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    3 months ago

    Me, an e-bike rider, when the fossil fuel prices make the over 60% renewables energy costs to charge my battery skyrocket

    My next bike’s gonna be a touring bike (or similar) without motor assistance, though, so I’ll be free to roam untethered both literally and figuratively 😃

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    81·
    3 months ago

    I noticed that the chuds were hurting when they started asking questions about the little car I (used to) drive. Wanting to know how much gas it used. Wanting to know if it is reliable.

    In 2005 I was riding a bicycle to work and loving it, sadly it’s now a 70 mile round trip to work, and it would all be along roads that would 100% get me killed on a bicycle. Which sucks because I always feel so good after a decent ride.

    Ive decided on harm reduction and sort of a new hobby - I bought one of the first production electric cars, a second generation Leaf. It was ridiculously cheap and it’s easily rebuildable, even the battery. Its fun watching my supervisor sneer at the little car while also bitching about having to drive a diesel-powered 1 ton truck 80 miles a day for 5 dollars a gallon.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I drive a tiny ICE and yeah there are some things that don’t fit in it, but I’ve shocked people with what I can fit in it. Add in a turning radius that shocked a friend and I’m firmly committed to the hatchback subcompact life. Going electric when mine dies too. Unfortunately I only get like 30 mpg

      • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        I still have my little combustion engine car, a Mitsubishi Mirage sedan. 3 cylinders and a manual transmission, reliable as a hammer for the last 170,000 miles. My personal best was loading a 12ft long extendable telescoping handle.

        Small car logistics is fun.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 months ago

    Don’t you get enough sun on your bike rides? It’s hotter than Satan’s butthole out there in most of my country right now…

  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    I pulled up to a gas station in my EV to hand some rando a coupon for gas I will never use. On the one hand, yes I was being nice, but also it was fun to flex on ICE drivers paying current gas prices.