Many families in USA live in a home that requires a vehicle to access, to go to and from the home, especially with a load from Costco, or a few heavy grocery bags, and while a tiny fractions of the population able to walk with a heavy bag of groceries in a backpack and one in each hand, walking 4 or more miles loaded up like this, especially if topography means a steep hill to scale or hike to get home, this is not practical for the overwhelming vast majority of Americans in most American cities.
Americans Cities Designed around Cars
Taking this into account, the way many American cities, roads, highways were developed after the end of World War 2, centered around automobile use, thus in part Americans are automotive enthusiasts at some level, for without a car, truck or SUV it can be nearly impossible to be a full functioning high functioning participating member of society or a real person, I am not talking about bums living under a bridge in a tent without sanitation.
Automobiles for real Americans
I am talking about the working class, middle class, upper class, from broke to rich, from wealthy to poor, be that in a studio apartment or a giant single family home in suburbia, having an automobile of some kind or at least access to use one, means most American's as a family own more than one car, truck or SUV.
Higher Gasoline Prices are Hurting Families
Therefor since most Americans have to drive cars, fuel prices strongly affect the budgets of working American families, even just to get to school or back, even if the kids ride the bus, the bus fueled by diesel, and battery electric buses are not affordable to most school districts.
Energy the "Bang:" or "Zap" or "Sizzle" that "Makes it Happen" USA Style
Look, electricity, gasoline, hot water, AC, furnace, lighting, TV, charging your smartphone or BEV, refueling your car, truck or SUV, or how to fuel aircraft or ships or class 8 trucks that move nearly everything along with diesel-electric hybrid railroads and giant ships, containers, 20 or 4 foot painted steel shipping containers, we are talking about mega logistics with billions of containers moving of tons of food, clothing, and all other life's basics.
Transportation of Commodities Around America
Consumables like toilet paper, bullets, cotton swabs, facial tissues, towels, carpeting, tires, appliances, you name it, pens, pencils, guns, ammo, electronics, furniture, so much that truckers are called the unsung Heros of America, and nearly all of those container moving trucks require diesel fuel.
Comparing Diesel, Kerosine & Jet Fuel
Jet fuel that runs passenger and cargo aircraft called Jet A very chemically similar to diesel or kerosine, with the addition of special synthetic lubricants since aircraft are similar to 2 stroke chainsaw engines in the sense that the turbine engines burn some of their lubricating oil with the fuel to enhance the operating lifetime of the engines even though it makes the non-emissions controlled chemical pollutants emitted by aircraft engines more harmful to people and nature.
Industry Pays Less than You or I for Fuel
Oh, Airlines get to buy fuel for around 1 dollar per US gallon, about 4 to 6 times less expensive than what your forced to pay at the gas pump. School districts get to buy diesel fuel for under $3 per gallon without taxes added, and do not be fooled by tricky rhetoric, the state of whatever only Applies $.49 of gasoline tax, when in reality, there are 9 other special taxes added that raise the price from $3.20 per gallon to over $6 per gallon, the specific gas tax disclosed on the tip of a layered tax iceberg.
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