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Trump might ironically end up being the guy that pushes society over the green energy tipping point.

EVs were all the rage a few years ago, but they were expensive and gas prices collapsed. However if we get another $5-$6/gal gut punch, a lot of people will probably say "You know what? I'm done with this shit."

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UK petrol prices (at time of comment) of ~£1.50/l are equivalent to $7.50/USgal.

People around me are expecting to see diesel at £2/l soon.

For much of my late teens and early 20s, I was hearing about people using vegetable oil as a substitute for diesel. If that still works, there may be some additional impact that both limits the fuel price and increases food prices: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/272515844?_gl...

To the point of the comment you're replying to, US cars are infamously inefficient compared to European cars, and also there's that old quote about how "In the US 100 years is a long time, while in Europe 100 miles is a long way", so the US can still get a price shock even with cheaper fuel than the UK/EU.

Vegetable oil will cause long-term damage in modern diesel engines with direct injection or common rail injection systems. Older indirect injection diesel engines could tolerate it much better because of the pre-combustion stage.

Thanks for the update/correction; while I don't have a car, I recon you probably saved at least one engine some trouble from outdated folk wisdom.

It all depends on how long they remain that high. After reading [1] this i would not count on it.

[1](https://archive.ph/NLJWJ)

The Greenest President Ever!

The World works in mysterious ways.

Similar to how Hitler ushered in a whole generation of liberal demacracy and human rights protection across the world.

Well Trump doesn't exactly have the sufficient work ethic, mental acuity or sense of purpose to as much damage (and hopefully not more than a handful of years left on this earth in general to end up having to shot himself in a bunker).

If it were to be so I would exclaim "What a poor vessel have we found to do this work." Sigh..

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