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As an American of the “live too far away to get a pizza delivered” variety, you can go F yourself. You absolutely do not understand what it’s like living rural
by mgarfias 5y ago
As an American of the “live too far away to get a pizza delivered” variety, you can go F yourself.
You absolutely do not understand what it’s like living rural, please go try it for a bit and then come back to talk about how we should “F “ ourselves.
- InvertedRhodium 5y agoWhat does that matter though? You chose to live rural, it's not like the ever increasing price of petrol has been a closely guarded secret. What do you expect to do when the price of petrol inevitably doubles or triples?
- dazilcher 5y ago> What do you expect to do when the price of petrol inevitably doubles or triples? Not GP, but that's an easy one: vote for people who would increase production.
- InvertedRhodium 5y agoOk, so you'll delay it a bit. But what happens when it inevitably doubles or triples? You can't delay forever.
- evronm 5y agoI don't think you are the target of OP's ire. There is definitely a need for SUV's in rural areas. The issues I have (and I think OP as well) is with people who drive them in the city, never going off road or towing anything. It's a huge waste and in fact ends up making your gas bills higher than they need to be.
- verve_rat 5y agoI am a New Zealander that lives rurally and I drive a Suzuki Swift. Do you not have roads where you live? If you need the truck for a farm or other job, well that's a bit different. But you will have to get used to the rest of society increasingly wanting to put a price on the externalities your work generates. Owning a truck _is_ going to keep getting more expensive and you should be planning for that now.
- cudgy 5y agoThey’ll just get an electric truck. One will be available soon at a car lot nearby. Then we can stop this petty, nosy criticism.
- mgarfias 5y agoHave you seen the rivian reviews? The range while towing went from 300mi to 60. Not an option if you actually use your truck.
- cudgy 5y ago60 miles is pretty good, considering most trucks aren’t usually towing a trailer. Obviously, if you are towing long distances, an electric truck does not make sense … yet. Diesel is the way to go. Again, most trucks aren’t towing long distances so towing range is not critical to electric trucks making sense for most uses.
- mgarfias 5y agoTowing a few times per year completely trashes the utility of an all-electric truck. I do have a big diesel (1T) bought just to be able to tow heavy things. What I'd really like, no one makes: namely an electrically driven, so GOBS of low end torque, but with a diesel powered generator to keep the batteries charged. Give me 150mi of electric range (unloaded), and then a fuel tank big enough to pull a heavy load 500mi. Oh, and the ability to keep it plugged in at night so 80% of the time I'm not needing to use the diesel motor.
- labrador 5y agoMore power to you. I specifically mentioned "soccer Mom" which implies suburban areas like mine and how I see enough large gas guzzling status vehicles to get mad about it, but hey, if you want to feel attacked, be my guest.
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- ikiris 5y agoI grew up on a farm, you're not winning any points for being this clueless. Its not that hard to have a $500 old shitbox for when you actually need to haul things, and drive something efficient the rest of the time.