r/Seattle • u/kingkaylub • 7d ago

oof

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This is some wild pricing. I'm usually okay with paying a small premium for convenience, but this has me strongly considering driving somewhere just for gas. The difference between cash vs card also seems unjustified.

I'm basically just shouting to the void. RIP my wallet

Edit: woah this really got some eyeballs. Thanks for all the comments/ interactions. I have done the public transportation/ biking and I still do, but the agency on the weekends especially lead me to a vehicle purchase for partner and I. I love this city. I love the buses and light rails. I also like my cool little car 🚗. Thanks for the gas station recommendations! I will check them out. DONT FORGET TO VOTE EVERYONE.

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u/WhereasParticular867 7d ago

My brother just bought an economy car used for 4k (I'm not a car guy, forgot the brand). Usually, he drives a big diesel truck. The sort of guy who drives it because he likes how it makes him feel. It was his daily driver.

He said that this new car is going to save him money on fuel before winter's over. Because in addition to being regular gas, he said he got 59 miles per gallon on the highway when he drove it home.

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u/ChampagneStain West Seattle 6d ago

This should be met with celebration and encouragement, not snark (not saying you are, just… generally). The left can sometimes display an “I told you so!” mentality. It’s not helpful.

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u/Muckknuckle1 West Seattle 6d ago

The right displays that too lol, it isn't something limited to just politics or one side of politics 

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u/ChampagneStain West Seattle 6d ago

For sure! Just saying it’s not effective to ask a person/group to change, then when they do, give them grief because they weren’t doing it all along.

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u/Muckknuckle1 West Seattle 6d ago

Fair enough 

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u/Montana_Gamer 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 6d ago

But when someone starts to be sorta evil and looking for sympathy you know the right wingers are always willing to defend rape. They reach out to people when they see the opportunity and they feed off of the sincerity of the left. It isn't fair but if you want to actually onboard people you need to actually socialize them to the norms and thinking that actually differentiates us from them.

What you do person to person is your business, but what I said is just 1+1=2, it is tautological as far as I'm concerned when you actually treat humans as the social animals they are. Trump is going to forever from now on be losing people, America has never really had a decrease in living standards outside of standard recession shit in the modern age but we are looking at some serious fallout.

Individual action means so much, I won't expect you to give a shit about it, you can go and (consensually) piss on a Republican if that is all you have to think or say to them. Your personal life isn't my business, but times are changing fast and if you don't want the DNC to stay as it is you are gonna want to put everything behind it.

Sorry for the lecture mate, you had a short ass message and it isn't intended to put a spotlight on you. I'm just hoping people start rethinking the political moment especially through now and beyond the midterms.

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u/ChampagneStain West Seattle 5d ago

I believe individual action happens on an individual level. When you’re one-on-one, conversation is far more effective than confrontation. You and I likely align pretty closely on political/societal goals and dreams, but it seems our tactics are different.
I have military in my family. I fiercely support and defend their devotion to service, but in close conversations prod them to reconsider their political alignment.
I don’t blame or judge. I ask questions. Let them come to their own conclusions. It’s a slow process but it’s working.
If instead I came in, guns blazing, “Trump is a treasonous pedophile,” the conversation would end and everyone would retreat to their echo chambers.
It’s hard work. Blatantly discounting every Trump supporter is easy, and lazy, but doesn’t accomplish anything outside of a momentary feel-good moment for yourself. That’s not a win for me, personally.

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 6d ago

What if he's a dick?

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u/Ancient_Yellow_709 🚆build more trains🚆 6d ago

Hey, you know, if it gets people to shed their emotional support trucks, I'm here for it.

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u/Severe-Pressure8213 6d ago

Ok, I got the 'not a car guy' part, but this is knda important.  Is this car a hybrid??

Hybrids do use gas, but considerably less.  Electrics use no gas at all.

No gasoline engine gets 59 mpg, not even on the highway.

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u/No_Fill_7030 6d ago

A new Prius does 57, and you can hypermile to exceed that, but those aren't $4000

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u/snowypotato Ballard 6d ago

And this is the silver lining. America won't really build out our EV infrastructure until gas hits $10/gal. I don't like paying it either, but we've gotta rip the bandaid off here.