• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    When gas prices hit $3.80 under Obama here in the Midwest, I just remember vividly the buses being full to bursting… only time that’s ever happened in my adult life.

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      8 days ago

      I see people idling their cars all the time, here, despite the current price of fuel (in Denmark). They just don’t care. It’s a problem for politicians to solve, in their mind, so they just vote for the first asshole who says he’ll solve it and then they whine on facebook about bicyclists on the roads.

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        7 days ago

        same here in Australia, so it’s a human stupidity thing, rather then a national thing. I had expected better if Denmark

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          5 days ago

          NSW made it illegal to sit idling years ago, apparently to address the noise problem