My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it’s because that’s what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to “gas.”
One could ask why only “gasoline” is called “petrol” elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn’t diesel also called “petrol?”
Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.
I believe it’s possible also in France .
Edit: don’t want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.
You’re comparing an entire country to the US’ 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.
I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren’t the best but you’re still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.
That’s a long ass road trip, thanks for sharing. I was trying to get directions from Alaska to southern Argentina but Google said nope
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya’ll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don’t even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
Yes, how is this relevant? The point is they were comparing the length of time to cross a single American state to the time to cross an entire country, which are two different things. Driving through Texas isn’t equivalent to driving through Germany, it’s equivalent to driving through Bavaria.
You guys get to make fun of the imperial system, and healthcare, and fahrenheit, and gun crime. Let us have one thing.
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don’t think a straight road exists here.
1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.
Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.
If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!
The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there’s space. That’s not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn’t constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
I’m all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we’re willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there’s very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!
