This image is from March 27th, 2011

Welcome to Los Angeles.

>>340125

Sup Manhattan Beach bro! Im stopped on my bike at that station quite often. Small world!

But...but I like going fast.

>>340125
Protip: Getting gas from a gas station that's not right on the beach can save you money, i.e.: SF Valley.

>>340130
Oh, I live in the SFV
Gas prices are the same as the prices of that chevron if not more
haha

>>340131
Musta gone up fast, I was there about a month ago, prices were still around $3.60, maybe you get gas at a real expensive station, my dad can always find a cheap one after drivin a little.

>€1.61 per litre
and still the cycle revolution has not begun.

>>340125
What's the current price? It's $4.45 here in San Diego.

Haha, I love when someone I know brings up gas prices, let the prices skyrocket, no shits will be given.

$3.80 in my area. Almost hit $40 on my last fill up and barely got 370 miles from that shit! Need to hoon less.

>mfw people talk about gas prices

About $3.63 here in Baton Rouge. (plus or minus a couple cents at various places)

Then again, they refine the shit 10 miles up the river.

Guess what murrikans, in western Yurop gas is 1.6-1.7 eur for a liter, wich is 2.2 bucks, wich means a gallon is almost 8.4 USD. And still ne bike revolution.

I don't get how people accept such things, it's a fucking robbery. Today was sunny as fuck, almost 20°c and yet everyone was stuck in their little cars during rush hours. Marx didn't know shit, car is the ultimate alienation tool.

>>340216
People build their lives around cars; they slowly forget how to live without them. By the time they are 18 or 20 people can't imagine living without them. It's a messed up cycle since they become parents, and feel obligated to pay for a car that their child can't afford.

It's not uncommon at all for people here to spend $200/month+ on gas. Insurance might add $50, the car itself could easily add $100 again. But people won't move closer to work because they cannot conceive of living without a car. It would be hilarious except it's fucking up the planet.

There are concrete answers to every question about how to live without a car but somehow they are shrouded by some weird mass car hysteria built on 80 years of excessive petroleum use.

Inb4 /o/ trolls be trolling. Say what you want but try to think about who's really in denial. Exponentially increasing gas prices, climate problems, health problems, and deaths by cars themselves VS. "faggots ride bikes." Electric cars might be the next step but we can't sustain that level of excess either. Maybe people will start to figure it out while they still have the choice.

>>340179
$3.80 eh, must be real proud of your low prices.
funny, last time I filled up I payed $3.19

>2012
>Spending money on gas

>>340218
In the U.S., people can't fathom traveling anywhere without a car because there's almost no infrastructure accommodating bicycles. Bikes are treated as recreational vehicles, so all the bike paths are built to connect to parks instead of commercial centers, making it difficult and dangerous to commute to work or run errands using a bicycle.

In my city, the best you can hope for is a 1.5-foot bike lane separated from the road only by a thin white line of paint that drivers largely ignore. And that's only on suburban roads, the main streets don't have bike lanes. Motorists here don't know how to deal with pedestrians or cyclists.

What also grinds my gears is that I rarely see a car with more than one person in it. Sedans, trucks, SUVs, all with only the driver and no cargo or passengers. What a waste of energy and space.

>>340225
Pretty much this. ESPECIALLY in suburban areas. I need to move into the city.

Gas prices. Car driving. Whatever.

Bikefags are just as ideologically bound into rigid modes of thought as the cagers are. Cars aren't really problems. Anyone who cared could solve the congestion of our streets by giving massive tax rebates to people who don't own a personal motorized commuting vehicle. And when they start putting carpool lanes everywhere and enforcing it with massive fines, people will get on board.

All that needs to be done is a little legislation.

God I can't wait for gas prices to go up to $10 a gallon, am I the only one who's going to lol their ass off? I bet not

>>340236
Probably yes; as we're all depending on cheap transportation of our goods and will pay the price related, no matter if going by cage ourselves or not.

with gas prices this high, buying a $500 used great condition road bike will probably pay for itself in like a couple of years

>>340248

My employer pays me 0.20eur/km if I ride my bicycle to work, and I live 10km from work. My bike paid itself pretty quick

>4$/gal
>20mpg sports car
>leadfoot it erryday
feels good not being poor

$5.25 a gallon.
Drive a moped/130mpg
Don't give a fuck.

>>340248
It's the norm here to pay $200/mo. If you don't mind riding 14 miles/day it would pay for itself in 10 weeks.

>>340339

where is "here"?
do you have any kind of decent job market?

>>340340
No, pretty much all service industry. It's southern California.

>>340340
Now i'm really curious, where were you going with that?

>>340347

Been in the Midwestern US for a while. It's nice in a lot of ways, but feeling the need for a change of pace. I already bike a lot, so it'd be kinda cool to get payed for it.

>>340354
Oh, haha! I meant the norm for drivers to pay $200/mo for gas. Nobody pays me to bike. Even so, the weather is always good for biking and there's a bike shop every mile. Ten minutes by mtb to a trailhead in more than one direction. A sweet place to live.

>>340359

I'm in MSP.
I can look out my bedroom window and see both the nearest multi-use bike path and the nearest singletrack :)

Furnace Creek, CA 3/6/2012

Welcome to Death Valley

NUCLEAR RAIN BITCHES!!!! GRAB YOUR .223!!!!!!

What you forget is people with decent jobs can afford gas even if it was two or three times the current (ridiculous) price. I live in Europe and pay $8 a gallon. I chose to live in the countryside and commute about 15 miles (20-25 minutes) by car. Why? Because I can get a much nicer house for the same money, and it's in the countryside with nice fields and hills and rivers etc. rather than a smelly, overcrowded city.

I don't mind that I spend a bit more commuting than I need to; I enjoy driving more than I'd enjoy walking, cycling, or taking the bus. inb4 fat neckbeard; I'm 5'10" and 160 lbs. I cycle and hike a lot on weekends, but cycling a commute in all weather carrying all the stuff you need for work sucks - at least I hated it when I tried it for a year.

>>340476
>commuting 15 miles by car
>as if that's not easily done on a bicycle

>>340479
With hills, buddy. I've done that ride a few times and you get sweaty. I know some people shower at work etc. but that kind of hassle is for the few dedicated cyclists. Like me, most people cannot be bothered with that just to get to work every day. Driving that commute is a MUCH more pleasant experience, that's why I'm prepared to pay for it. I agree more people could cycle, but it's not going to be a large scale transport solution.

>>340480
I know it's not for everyone, but cycling is a solution to a lot of transportation woes. The developed world has (comparatively) great road infrastructure with many people living within a 10 mile radius of everything they need. It's silly how dependent how all of us (including me) are dependent on cars.

Price hit 2€ a liter yesterday in my city.
>driving a motor vehicle

>being poor
>2012
I get like 16 mpg and not a single fuck is given. But if all you poorfags stop driving that'd suit me, less traffic on the roads.

i love you fagg/o/ts who come in here and go: 'hurr poor folk gonna poor', when in reality you're bitching to your friends how shitty gas prices are over dinner and feeling the rectal ream every time you pull into the gas pump. it's okay, though; you're on an anonymous image board so you have a high reputation to hold up.

>>340135

>"...my dad can always find a cheap one after drivin a little."

I've often pondered when it becomes null to go driving more to go look for even slightly cheaper gasoline prices. I've known some people that will drive clear across town, through traffic-laden streets and tons of stop lights, just to save 10 cents more per gallon...in an F-150. His idiocy makes me rage, as he spends more money than that which he "saves" driving around looking for cheaper gas prices. I'm not saying it's the same case with your dad, but some people take it to the extreme without thinking...and iMad because of it.

>>341480

>some people
>his

Aaaaaaand I need to lrn2English a bit better.

>>341478
1/10 for getting me to respond

keep on projecting buddy, I ain't even mad.

>>341480
If there weren't people willing to go a little out of their way for cheap petrol, there'd be a lower incentive for the petrol stations to compete with each other and prices would rise.

>>341493
It's just a bit silly since a person pays about 12-19 cents per mile driven in gasoline. (assuming $3.63 a gallon)

So if you drive 3 miles to find a cheaper gas station it would need to be 3 cents a gallon cheaper if you put in 12 gallons for you to break even. That's assuming you go with the 12 cent a gallon estimate which means you're getting about 30 mpg.

I normally just use a website to show which is the cheapest fuel near me, then I can usually choose to fill up somewhere cheap without having to hunt around or go far out of my way. But even if you did go out of your way enough for it to actually cost you a little extra, it provides a bit of competitive pressure if enough people do that.

Of course if you could reliably vote for politicians who would work to reduce the cost of gas that'd be great, but they're all full of shit.

>>341496
There are only two groups of people who absolutely 'control' oil prices:
>OPEC
>Consumers
If oil prices get too low for OPEC's liking, they will reduce supply until they are satisfied.

>>341501
>implying the US government has no say with OPEC

>>341489

9/10 of a chance of having been called out on an anonymous image board.

>>341504
0/10
repetition gets you no marks.

>>341505
>initiates the baseless and overused meme of 1/10
>tells someone they're being unoriginal

>>341506
>makes trolling post with implications about motivations of another poster
>gets treated with contempt, keeps shitposting, gets upset
All in all, I'm afraid it's another 0/10 for you. Troll harder.

I hope people are aware that if gas prices stay this high we have no chance of getting the economy back on track. If you enjoy poverty, joblessness and seeing your country ruined, then it's a good thing. Otherwise it's unambiguously bad whether you drive or not.

>>342258
You do know that oil is a finite resource, right? It's only ever going to follow an upwards pricing trend. People have known that it's not infinite since the day they first started drilling, the only reason that the total non-surprise of higher energy prices will wreck the economy is because everyone has been too stupid for too long to do anything about it, like reduce the world's dependence on it.
We've all done too little for too long, and so now we've fucked ourselves in the ass and there's no way out of the hole.
The economy is going to collapse in the near future, and motorised personal transportation for the majority of people will become a thing of the past.

>>342261
There's way more oil than you might think, we've used up a lot of what's under the land but ocean is 2/3 of the earth's surface and there's Antarctica. Eventually yes but we have a long time to make the transition to new ways of fueling vehicles. We could be using biofuels more to reduce shocks and ease that transition when it comes.

>>342264
Doesn't matter if we use up every single drop available, at a certain point it becomes too expensive to justify.

And fuck transportation, I'm worried about what oil scarcity is going to the chemical and plastic industries.

I'm personally betting we see nuclear-powered cargo ships within 10 years.

>>342281
Let me guess, in the next panel the guy who has a car responds with something along the lines of pic related?