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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

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[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

gas stations don't work in a blackout,

...do US statioms not have their own generators?

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago

How are you going to fill those generators if the pump has no power?

Checkmate atheists

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

No idea about the US, but not in Europe. It was a major problem with the last blackout in Spain and Portugal.

[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I am asking because I worked in gas station in Poland and we had backup generator. xD

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Nope. Even some US hospitals don't have backup generators.

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