US Energy Secretary says Americans have to drive less if they want lower gas prices
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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.
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.
Too bad the entire fucking country is built with 1 mode of transportation in mind.
Gove elon musk 100 billion dollars to solve this problem? Got it.
a very inefficient i might add, and prone to collisions.
Keep that in mind, truckers. Don’t drive as much and so far.
He is not completely wrong. He is just an asshole.
Chris Wright owns one the largest oil company in Colorado
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/15/fracking-company-energy-tax-liberty-00872841
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.
US Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright can get you a toe by this afternoon with nail polish.
Fuck the toe!
To be honest, the toenail polish is the easy part.
Too bad America has invested nothing into viable alternatives to driving.
so fund transit
Not like that
Meanwhile, data centers:
“Drive your emotional support vehicle less.”
Doubt they supported wfh though.
Most sane thing this administration has ever said.
Every other thing they say is sane, out of context.
Or...hear me out:
The MAGA Administration could be less VIRTUOSICALLY INCOMPETENT!
Oil company profits are up. Have you seen the DOW
Yes, but have you seen the oil?
This Lemmy poster says Trump and his sicophants have to stay home more if they don't want to be [REDACTED]
Well this fucking moron finally gets something right. Who's gonna run it by MAGA?
Maybe if we just worked a little more:
And if we chose to live closer to work: