JD Vance has said Americans should comfort themselves with the fact that allies are "suffering more than we are" from soaring gas and oil prices.

The worst and most stupid bit is this:

Speaking to crowds on Wednesday, vice president JD Vance said US allies are “suffering from this, frankly, more than we are.”

He claimed this was because they had “focused on a lot of green energy scams and they’re hurting a lot more than we are.”

Vance continued:"As much as we’ve got to focus on getting these gas prices down, the reality is overseas they’re feeling it far worse than we did because we’ve taken the steps to protect our energy economy.

  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    UK - petrol prices are rising.

    Electricity prices are falling because most of our energy is from renewables and british/european gas.

    Sucks for me because my car is a petrol one. My wife’s is electric and it costs about £4 for her to charge up overnight and that gets her about 250-280 miles of range (£0.01 per mile).

    My car costs £55 to fill up for 400 miles per range (£0.13 per mile).

    Although my car is cheaper

    Edit - changed currency symbol…realise 0.01p isnt the same as 1p…

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      You should be ok with the fact that you need a car to live. You shouldn’t live where this is the case.

      • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        If 15 minute cities ever become a reality and i can walk to work/the shops/doctors/pub etc then I’ll glady give up the car.

        That isn’t the case and I’d rather not move house thanks

      • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        A mini.

        I might have the sums wrong, but we are on the octopus EV tariff so electricity is dirt cheap overnight.

        Also 0.01p is 1p. Should have put the pound sign instead lol

        But yeah, its insane how cheap it is.

        The only kicker is her car costs £100 a month in payments more than mine.

        • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          It’s interesting seeing how mine, ionic 5, compares to others in real life. Only reason I got mine was is was one of the few cars somebody could sit behind me, with seat front seat Ben comfortable for driving.

          I’ve got the first service 40k miles soon, compared to my wife’s at 10-12k, but realistically 6k for the oil, stupid HDi diesel engine

          • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            She has the Aceman that is 5-door so I think you can sort of fit people in the back seat but it isnt comfortable for tall people. No boot space at all though.

            But it is very fun to drive!