Try to get out of liter US and visit litre Europe countries as an international learning experience eh Alaishana? Germany isn't the only country there you know.
I’m presuming you’re American and have never been privy to a British Encyclopedia. The person who wrote that must be living in Europe or Britain in particular because they spelled “litre” correctly.
sometimes we have to expand our worldview
I'm English and I got it - the challenge was that you're American and we really don't expect effective sarcasm - thanks for adding the /s.
To my point now - As a native speaker of this English language, I'm ready to start a movement - to get Americans and the USA as a whole to adopt "American" as the name for the language they speak.
burglarized?! I don't want a keyboard or language choice limited to 'English (American)'.
Linked by association (even just language) is now enough to make me feel uncomfortabley close to you and your madness
Not american, also not the original guy you responded to, gotta check the username, happens more often then you think lol. Its usually hard to tell sarcasm without the "/s", especially in this political climate, so I thought id help you out a bit, and maybe anyone else. I also agree, they should adopt American as the launguage lol
America is HUGE. We use stupid amounts of fuel. I work in Grocery Supply Chain. I can unload half a truck in IL, and see the next stop is LA, literally 1000 miles away.
As much as I don't like to give Americans credit, this is a very good point that a lot of people either miss or intententionally ignore to make an argument.
Not only is the country not set up for walking, cycling or inter-city public transport, the distances between places is enough to break the minds of most Europeans.
If people had to pay what we pay in Europe the situation would be so incredibly fucked - way more than it already is.
It's not just getting people around either. Freight trains, trucks, and planes don't run on hopes and dreams (neither do their refrigeration units). Every product you buy in the store from towels to organic pasture raised eggs uses oil to get to you.
Indeed. That's actually the bigger part of the issue. People don't travel long distances personally all that often (further than Europeans, sure, but relative to the size of the country, it's small potatoes). Goods on the other hand... they ship coast to coast. Literally thousands of miles isn't uncommon. If diesel cost you over $10 a gallon, your already expensive food and other goods would be significantly more expensive.
We have a strong domestic supply as well as the strategic reserves that he’s been draining like no tomorrow so ours is only a third of that but even still it’s twice what it was.
The response from MAGA about this is to say that Biden caused it and Trump is actually the one fixing it.
And that's despite the fact that we get most of our crude from Norway now, so our supply isn't threatened (at least until China outbids us) - it's just that the world market prices are going through the roof.
Yeah?! Well my government makes deals with cartels and trades guns for cocaine to distribute to the people then incarcerate them. Bet you wish your country was THAT cool! /s
Depends on how you quantify "easier". In terms of which is more straightforward, capitulating with Putin is "easier" than the US pulling out of the middle east. But morally, it's way more complicated.
Saying "I'll let one morally bankrupt maniac continue fucking things up over there but make nice with another one over here to get cheap fossil fuels" won't make history remember you all that fondly.
I honestly don’t know why you think picking America is better than Russia, given that in the last 80 odd years…. I.e since the end of WW2 Russia hasn’t even done 1/2 the shit that America has done to the world.
It’s like Europeans have a hard on to keep picking the number one warmongering cunt of a country as their best mate.
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u/Obvious-Water569 Sep 21 '26
Yeah that's great. Meanwhile I'm paying £2 for a litre of diesel.