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Cake day: August 23rd, 2024

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  • I hate to pull the “You Yanks still have it cheap” card, but I just did the math for my car, assuming 10,000 km (6k miles) annually and a generous 8 liters (29 mpg?) fuel consumption. At current gas prices (2€ per liter), that’s slightly under 800 Euros per year that the state collects at the pump (gas tax, CO2 surcharge, VAT adding up to at least half the price of gas). In addition, 135 € per year flat tax to have the car registered.

    That said, the idea that you have to pay a penalty tax for driving a EV while the brodozers don’t is, well… idiotic.






  • I do get it. Britain joined in 1973 and not even ten years later, Thatcher was already bitching about their unreasobable contribution to the EU’s budget. The other leaders felt like they had to give in to her relentless nagging and granted the UK a rebate that no other nation got. Then the UK still never stopped whining about how bad Brussels was for their sovereignty and that they didn’t actually need the EU as much as the EU needed them. They left the EU, and it turns out that that was not a wise decision after all.

    I get that the people were sold empty promises, but the referendum had a long history of bitching and moaning leading up to it.