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To be fair, once fuel prices go up the cost of EVERYTHING also goes up. So no it's not just about pain at the pump, it's pain at the grocery check out. Pain when the oil truck comes to deliver your liquid heat. Pain when you buy anything plastic, anything grown with fertilizers. People don't realize petroleum is in almost everything! And if it doesn't use a petroleum product in manufacturing, it certainly does in shipping.
Youre right, but also if we weren’t using up as much for fuel as we do there would be much more left for other applications
No kidding. I think our world leaders have forgotten that there is only so much oil in the ground, once it's all burnt up that's it poof it's gone. Makes it even more insane that their bombing oil fields and refineries. If u want a small example of how our billionaire rulers have boned us look at the racket from synthetic rope getting hemp banned. The tldr is DuPont made synthetic rope, but hemp which is sustainable and strong got outlawed due in part to them lobbying. We have a government that exists only to stuff rich peoples pockets from what it seems. There's more examples than can be listed of private corporations creating rules to make themselves the winners at the expense of the people and the planet, and it's been going on for over a hundred years and just getting exponentially worse. There's a reason wealth just keeps consolidating.
Exactly. Your house could be solar, you could be charging your EV from your solar, and so your house power and transportation costs mostly negated, but everything else would still have an increase.
Ive never heard liquid heat before, interesting. We call it heating oil where I'm from (southern new england).
I'm in northern New England, moved here from Southern New England. Moved there from Texas. Moved there from Italy. I'm not "from" anywhere so I picked up some odd sayings in my travels LOL. I also make stupid shit up on occasion, gotta keep people on their toes.
Ah ok lol.
Prices for the kinds of fuel ocean going ships burn have increased 25%-35% depending on the port.
Yep and the same cart of groceries I spent 100 bucks on last year is about 200 now :( Trump was right. So much winning we'll get sick of it. Trouble is only the billionaires are winning, at our expense. I'm not having fun anymore.