Why Europe needs better Public Transport, less Suburbia, and shorter Commutes: Car Commuting is becoming unaffordable
One thing more where we stop to follow the American dream, because it has turned into a nightmare.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/10/economy/us-work-commute-gas-prices?Date=20260510&Profile=CNNOpen linkView original on feddit.org125
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€1.01 per liter€0.67 per literI'm paying €2.29/lt on a cheap day right now. Americans can fuck right off with their complaining and their wasteful shitboxes.
To be fair to them, their average daily commute is about double of what it is over here in Europe and their public transport / alternative transport options are way more limited.
But yes, they definitely don't help themselves by driving giant child killing death trucks that burn a gallon of fuel every few miles.
My point is they're literally rubbing gas prices cheaper than at any point in my adult life in my face and then crying about it after making their own bed of mediocrity.
Its entirely their own fault and doing (shit infra, shit cars, shit investment, shit suburbia) and they were told its a bad idea every step of the way.
Fuck them.
The commute thing is so stupid to me. Sure you may not spend so much on fuel when it's so cheap, but you're spending the most valuable currency in the universe: time.
Opens up article. Reads headline:
And a picture of what is clearly America in the thumbnail...
Correct! To be specific, the USA portion of America
Especially those with huge, gas-guzzling trucks, I presume.
Yes, but the trend for bigger cars has blown over to Europe for quite some time now. I hope this oil crisis puts a stop to that, but I doubt it.
They are bigger in dimension (SUV and whatever else) but the engine displacement did not got bigger, it is basically the same it was 20 or more years ago, with lower consumption I may add.
The US wants European NATO members to go to war with a country in the Middle East which happens to produce oil. Fuel costs make headlines in Europe, too.
Of course, this is relavant!