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Re:Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) by clusterfish on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:41PM (#28507648)
And you commuting increases congestion for everyone else. And you buying food makes food more expensive for everyone else. So what. You honestly can't distinguish between this and pouring lead into the atmosphere? This seems like some demagoguery fetish at best.
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Re:Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) by kybernetyk on Monday September 13, 2021 @03:15AM (#28508668)
> And you buying food makes food more expensive for everyone else.

Not true. You raising the demand of a good enables the producers to employ economies of scale thus making food less expensive for all.

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