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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Electric vehicle and solar panel enjoyers:

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, gasoline woes will ripple through nearly every commodity or grocery that you partake in. If you're truly off grid, it probably won't do much. But as long as you shop from grocery stores or buy things period, you're gonna feel it a little. Not as much as a gas-guzzler, but you'll feel it.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

I mean I'm just piss posting and I'm deeply concerned for how it is going to impact my community, which is extremely impoverished and working class, and often have super long commutes.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

It's a good thing the government is also actively hostile to any alternative to fossil fuels /s

We could have dulled the impact by converting the grid to renewables 5 years ago, but Joe Manchin thought that might hurt his constituents.

Clearly Joe Manchin only considers the mine owners his constituency...

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's not just gas. Any plastic.

My job is already seeing disposable gloves explode in price

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Half of the modern world is reliant on petroleum based products. Gasoline and Diesel are about 70% of modern crude oil usage, but that remaining 30% is everywhere.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the Amish and the Sentinalese laughing at us rn

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The sentinelese are always laughing at us.

You know that meme about how we’re meant for eating fruit on the beach but instead we have to pay taxes? I’d violently defend my ability to opt out of that as well.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk modern medical care and pain relief is also pretty nice. There are some pretty brutal ways to die that we can avoid with modern technology

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Id take basic medicine over *all this. *

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Not any plastic. For example, much of the ethylene used to make PE is a common byproduct of natural gas production, that occurs in such quantity that producers almost have to pay to have it taken away.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Perhaps ethane based plastics not affected very much in the USA at least. Its a "waste product" from shale gas extraction. There are laws on how much producers can burn, and if they don't have a home for it they have to stop extracting methane. So they price it so cheap its essentially paying people to take it so they can go back to extracting methane. The USA produces 40% of the worlds ethane. This is also one of the reasons plastic recycling isn't financially feasible here. Ethane is just too cheap to make virgin plastic vs the costly process of collection and recycling of non-virgin plastics. source

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better load up on 3D printing filament before it gets worse

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most filament is made of PLA, from corn oil.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I use PETG from recycled water bottles, but when the ceiling rises so does everything below it

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Walkers, bikers, skateboarders, public transit riders, ...

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah a friend of mine was shocked when she asked me about my position on data centers and I basically told her IDGAF. I then had to remind her that I have a 21KW solar array and 45kwh of battery storage. My carbon usage is net negative.

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago

Wild that when i use this gif in relation to tech layoffs and AI i get wild amounts of downvotes.