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gas prices 🌎👩‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

METLIFE: “.. A larger share of households, roughly 42% of them, reported that their financial situation was somewhat or significantly worse than it was one year ago.” (NY Fed data:)

Consumers are *really* bad at expressing their economic well-being, it's basically just whatever pump prices are. Which is why maximizing EV share of the vehicle fleet is so important for breaking the carbon political economy in the US. Any other solution is doomed.

"Ugh we need to move people away from cars, how DARE you advocate anything other than biking and mass transit" Meanwhile, in reality...

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...why not hang them from a truck? I assure you EV pickups can be lifted and there are a wide range of models available.

We can have both? Example after example show that when offered high quality trains and transit, people will ride it. And a recent study found that we need to not only convert to EVs but also cut VMT by 25% to reach climate goals.