Transcription: Meme with mad max-type cars facing the viewer with the caption: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of car culture”

  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Not everyone knows that ethanol is simply worse for fuel efficiency and only exists to be a corn subsidy for farmers. I know E85 tuning exists which is cool but it’s still mostly trash.

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      Yah. The fact that we’re turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It’s not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it’s about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.

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        2 days ago

        It would have made more sense to just pay farmers more with subsidies, instead oil lobbyist tricked ag lobbyist into accepting this deal (or more likely bribed them).