A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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Say what you will the Iran war has pushed many people and countries to renewable energy.
I honestly don't completely understand the conservative agenda against renewable energy it allows independence at so many levels. Never have to see a gas pump again. Use the electricity from your house or a solar panel.
I honestly don't completely understand the conservative agenda against renewable energy
Because they’re owned by the oil companies, simple as that.
UK here, I had solar panels and a battery installed. My electric bill has gone from being £100-£150 a month down to £20. And that's with an electric car.
And donalds & musks shenanigans have solidified the EU and the fight for democracy and independence too.
I think at this point it's fair to say that they are just dumb as fuck. Imagine for a second you live in your house, that generates it's own electricity, the electricity is used to heat your home and water via heat pump. The same electricity is fueling your car over night. Electricity is out, no, not for you it isn't.
Somwhow they got convinced that this is terrible, your car doesn't make a loud wrooom anymore? Fuck you! Then they take away the gas stoves that gives them cancer? NO!
Genuine independence on an individual level is at odds with nationalism
And that's where we realize that the two party system is hollow and doesn't actually represent anything other than greed
If the GOP actually stood for tradition, we would go back to single income households
If the GOP actually stood for self-determination, anyone could change their gender on legal documents
If the GOP actually stood for hard work and personal responsibility, taxes would be proportionately higher for the mega rich, and the working class would be getting proper compensation
If the GOP actually stood for the 2nd amendment, Alex Pretti wouldn't have been shot to death simply for having a gun on his waist
If the GOP actually stood for Christianity, there would be homes for the homeless everywhere
If the GOP actually stood for isolationism, then this country would not be practicing genocidal foreign policy
And if the GOP actually stood for small government, well there wouldn't be this whole... craziness
Edit: why the booing? If I'm wrong then tell me why you think that
Comrade Trump has made public statements on the billions the US oil industry has profited during his reign.
We lost the conservatives when Carter espoused it and Reagan dismissed it.
I haven't filled my Chevy Volt's gas tank in 3 months
Great car, I haven't filled my Chevy Bolt with gas ever. 😂
I fear if you tally up the environmental impact of war, which is more often than not the reason for the rising oil price, it may exceed the savings at the end consumer level.
Yeah I wish the price had gone up without the war, then it would have really been a benefit.
I would agree with you for every country besides America. In America, especially in states like Indiana, you're completely dependent on gas because there's no other way to get to your job. So it does nothing to stop car usage and only finanically cripples people who are already barely keeping their face above water.
What do you mean? I LOVE spending $350/mo on gas!! I'm in Illinois, I feel INs pain.
I just bought an electric scooter that goes 20mph, it'll take 30 minutes to get to work, when it's not cold or snowy, but saving a tank of gas a month is $100 right there. I've already saved multiple trips to the local grocery store with little pick ups here and there. Looking forward to more fuel saving!
Even in places like that, it might cause people to avoid additional, less necessary, car trips.
What about EV's? Is it a range issue? Makes me think why dont EV's have solar panels slapped on them?
You still need the credit and money to acquire one.
Same is true about gas cars, no?
Gas cars are more numerous having been the norm for over a century. They're much cheaper and more plentiful on the used market. You're less likely to find an EV on marketplace or Craigslist, I've never seen one there.
If you're too poor to drive to work, you're helping the climate by reducing fuel burning and eventually the oxygen and food you take up being alive by not being able to afford to live.
I want gas prices to keep going up to insane levels as quickly as possible. A major acute pain will cause change.
You're asking for even more financial stress for probably closer to a billion people who are already struggling. The rich do not care what the fuel costs.
They say the populace is 3 meals away from a revolution at any given time. Ripping the band-aid off seems to me like the only way forward at this point.
There's only so much you can change urban sprawl. In the US especially, high gas prices just mean people who are middle-class or below can't afford to get to work. Last summer, 6% of my salary after tax went into the commute to and from the office.
You can change a ton. Especially in an urban sprawl environment.
Urban sprawl means it's comparatively easy for people to get PV, heat pumps for heating/cooling and EV chargers at home.
With that, you make yourself completely independent of high gas prices.
Yes, it has high up-front costs, but the long-term benefits are massive. And with enough pain comes political momentum, which can be used to get state subsidies for that kind of stuff and that way you and your country can become independent of importing fossil fuels while at the same time reducing harm to the climate.
And yes, it needs to hurt quite bad first to cause such a big systematic change.
People driving cars are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires and their private jet usage. They can afford any price. More expensive fuel only affects poor people.
Poor people are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires per capita.
But not in total. There are much more poor people than billionaires, and even if each billionaire produces 50 000x the emmisions that a poor person does, all in all the emmissions of poor people are quite relevant too.
(From an equality standpoint obviously billionaires should be emmission-capped or taxed to the point that they aren't billionaires anymore, there's no question about that. But poor people's emmissions are still significant and more than relevant to the climate.)
True but The climate doesn't care about equality, only emissions.
Higher oil prices also drive electric adoption and overall less consumption as general retail prices rise to reflect transportation costs. Its hard to call deprivation a good thing because people suffer, but if it reduces consumption and waste of resources it is a net benefit for sustainability, just not a politically desirable method.
One would think so, in theory. Reality shows so far that too many people can't easily and meaningfully decrease their fuel consumption and will just have to find the money somewhere. And the big consumers just raise the prices of the products they ship to compensate.
What I understand from this is the price isn't high enough then.
And it doesn’t impact worldwide freight, private jets, or military consumption.
It only really affects trucking, ships and trains are so big compared to the amount of fuel they use.