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4 USD za galona bencina
| 22. april 2008 | Svet | Jure
Američani te dni na črpalkah plačujejo okrog 4 USD za galono bencina, kar je tam nekje okrog 0,6 evra za liter. Internet je khm ponorel. Eni kličejo konec sveta, drugi se (vsaj malo) posmehljivo muzajo, češ, prav vam je v tistih hummerjih in drugih SUV-jih. Spletni komentarji znajo biti vseeno zanimivi, občasno pa delujejo tudi kot obliž za Evropejce.
Dear Rest of the World,
We realize your gas is more expensive. We also realize that a large portion of the cost of your gas, and everything else, is taxed. We know that those taxes go to provide you with government subsidized higher education, health care, public transportation, and many other things.
In the USA, we have none of those things. We need to pay out of pocket for higher education and health care. Many cities have barely functional public transportation, and with our job market being crap, many of us live 20-30 miles away from where we work. Please understand that our gas prices may be low compared to yours, but our total cost of living is very high. Any big hike in gas prices forces us into a situation where we need to choose between say…health insurance, or getting to our jobs. Please quit coming to these threads and assuming we are whining for no reason.
Perhaps someday our government will get its head out of its ass, and realize that a little socialization is not a bad thing. Until then, realize that many of the things you take for granted we simply do not have, and therefore you coming in here and thumbing your nose at us actually makes you look like a pretentious twatwaffle.
Thank You,
United States of America.
(Še brez glasov)
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Si pač našel nekakšen članek nekega aktivista ali ameriškega levičarja. In kaj si s tem dokazal?
V Ameriki dostopno ceno goriva upravičeno povezujejo s svobodo gibanja. Da pa Evropejci dopuščamo prekomerno obdavčenje je pač rezultat dolgoletnega poneumljanja, tako kot molče prenašamo najvišje obdavčitve na svetu.
Če privarčujejo približno polovico pri stroških za gorivo, jim seveda ostane več za zdravstvo, izobraževanje in podobne zadeve, za katere ni potrebno, da jim jih plačujejo sodržavljani z netransparentno redistributivno funkcijo.
Uporaba SUVov in cestnih terencev se meni sicer zdi bedasta (kot je dejal Jeremy Clarkson: “Living in the city and buying an off-roader is like permanently wearing a condom for the one day a month you might get lucky …”
Da pa uporaba Hummerjev bistveno prispeva k segrevanju ozračja je pa skregano z realnostjo. Hummerjev po Ameriki vozi nekaj tisoč, kar je v primerjavi z nekaj milijoni avtomobilov, ki so se zaradi razvoja pojavili v Indiji in na Kitajskem pljunek v morje.
Tudi sicer obsojanje velikih avtomobilov ne vodi nikamor. K segrevanju ozračja manj pripomore nekdo, ki ima 12 valjnega Jaguarja in ga vozi ob nedeljah na sprehod, kot tisti, ki se vsak dan s Cliom pripelje iz Radovljice v Ljubljano. V ekologiji pač nekaj pomenijo le absolutne vrednosti.
“we need to choose between say…health insurance, or getting to our jobs.”
ah, kako ganljivo. mogoce se mi bodo malo bolj zasmilili, ko bodo tako zagnano protestirali proti cenam in nedostopnosti zdravstvenega zavarovanja in drugim krivicam, ki jih tip navaja kot razloge za njihov “very high total cost of living”.
do takrat pa: jebes drzavo, kjer je osnovno zdravstveno zavarovanje luksuz, poceni bencin pa osnovna cloveska pravica.
aja, pa naslov popravi ;)