luckyhunter @ luckyhunter @lemmy.world

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Not the process, the standards. Burning more fuel to "reduce emissions". then I have to spend a bunch of money "fixing" a brand new vehicle to get the power and fuel efficiency the car was always capable of in the beginning.

a lot of countries are buying Russian oil not just those 2. many of them backed off on the boycotts already and signed some agreement to buy russian oil, but only at "below market rates" to make themselves feel better.

If the oil isn't coming out of the ground here in America, it's going to come out of the ground somewhere else, like Russia.

maybe, maybe not. They certainly aren't going to try to develop better methods and technology to drill there if there's now no chance to do so. Financially I don't mind $5 gas, I'm sure many people will mind though. I have a problem with conflicting government polices to both fund the fight against Russia, and also ones that will directly fund Russia to fight.

Yeah the EPA TDI bullshit is what I was talking about. It blows my mind to meet EPA "Standards" they had to make the engine perform worse and be less fuel efficient.

If there is zero employer match then sure. 401k-style plans are all basically the same as a 401k, the largest differences are really on the administration end. I have a small business and offer my guys SIMPLE IRA with a match. From what I can tell there's no difference from the employee side.

You provided my evidence for me. Your article says 79%.

The Volkswagon recall really pussy whipped the entire automotive industry.

not bullshit. it's 100% their personal choice, and a bad one.

ooh boy, you need to hear this. Social security will NOT provide you enough to live in retirement. You really should learn about and invest in a 401k or some sort of retirement account.

The number of people killed by extreme weather events has been drastically declining for decades so I'm not too worried about the fear mongering of the "1 death per 1000 tons of carbon". Especially when they follow it up with this: "This rule is actually "an order of magnitude best estimate", which means it's more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned." So they are saying 10 billion people could die based on the high end of that estimate. That would be something.

So yes, buying a vehicle powered by gasoline is far morally superior to a vehicle powered by batteries. One is a well regulated US industry with millions of high paying jobs. The other has kids dying in mine collapses to try to make $1 per day. If the industry can figure that part out then things we be a lot more equal between the 2.

I Don't go out much. The house cleaners do pamper me though.

So is Biden and anyone who supports exporting less oil in the US causing more oil sales in places like Russian.

sorry, 79% of the workforce has the option of a 401k. which is a huge majority. If a person chooses to opt out, that's on them.

net tax payer, depending on where you live that's something like 60-80k per year. and 401k is just the most common of many ways to save for retirement. The biggest loss would be the house cleaners for sure.

Some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to fill up the fuel tanks on my wakeboard boat.

I wish them the best. We should stop sending money and equipment to them and focus on rebuilding East Palestine and Lahaina instead.

The problem is we need the cobalt and lithium, and domestic production of that is hard to come by due to lack of deposits, and the deposits we do have are being railroaded by environmental lawsuits. Damned if do, damned if you don't. We can't even log off forests that are already dead from beetle kill. So taking advantage of 3rd world kids is the only option.

Gas prices don't bother me personally as long as government isn't unnecessarily hamstringing the domestic industry. The people who should be most upset about $5 gas are the ones financially struggling to buy it.

Fine, not "most" then. Practically all mature adults who are a net benefit to society have 401k's.