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[image text, slides taken from @kānakaautonomy on IG: “Want to know the REAL reason gas and power prices are CRUSHING Hawai‘i families, being told we should ‘plan our budget’, or be better at 'reducing our total energy costs’ despite consuming the lowest amount of energy in the nation, all while paying the highest prices? (verbatim from email sent by Joe Viola, Senior Vice President, Hawaiian Electric) If you guessed THE MILITARY+TOURISM, you are right. Jet fuel accounts for nearly three-fifths of the petroleum products consumed in the state. Because of significant demand from military installations and commercial airlines, jet fuel makes up a larger share of total petroleum consumption in Hawai‘i than in any other state. Residents, who consume just 1/10th of total energy in Hawai‘i (the lowest in the entire 'nation’), are PERSONALLY PAYING EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES, often choosing between basic necessities&paying the power bill or putting gas, FOR YOUR MILITARY AND YOUR VACATION. The same jet fuel they use to poison our waters, they use to steal our hard-earned dollars. WHEN WILL THE WAR CRIMES END? Demilitarize Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i is closed.” /ID]

a reminder that, at a time of massive evictions across the country due to eviction moratoriums ending, getting your power shut off often also usually means eviction and subsequent homelessness, &being unable to fill your tank on an island with some of the worst traffic in the country thanks to constant overcrowding usually means losing your job.

getting extremely tired of seeing hot takes centered around the idea that not being happy about gas price hikes is somehow a moral failing or inability to focus on other, bigger problems.

& stay the fuck out of Hawai‘i.

there isn’t any water, medical structure, gas, OR electricity to spare for your fucking vacay.