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Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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The perspective is fun, buying a new car in Denmark is a big investment, for many people it's around what they make in a year after taxes, and even then it's a relatively small car. I'm not saying electric is the golden bullet people want it to be, far from it as of right now, but we need to change something in order to have a chance of saving ourselves from destroying the planet. Perhaps a higher fuel cost will incentivice smaller cars, and thus better milage, for our American friends?
The solution is not more fuel efficient or fuel alternative cars, it's the replacement of cars entirely (where reasonable). But you can't shock that, because it requires infrastructure which literally doesn't exist in much of North America, and is severely lacking in the rest of it.
We used to have good public transit but it was demonized and dismantled by car manufacturers. There is a bus that runs near my house but the closest I can get to work is still several miles away and I cant use it to get home because of how early it stops running. Train service recently improved to twice a week but still has limited stops.
Over half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. Between sky high rent/mortgage, student loans and medical bills, getting a new car is often unrealistic.