Oh, bohoo. Those American gas guzzler riders would probably have a nervous breakdown at a European fuel station.
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Bitch, I haven't seen $3 gas in a decade.
Where's all those "I did that" stickers?
I still have some trump ones in a drawer somewhere. Pissed off half the damn town last time I broke them out. Though they never knew who did it!
I welcome high gas prices
came here looking for the
Who the fuck cares, this is such an unimportant and overused talking point
but, no. and so:
WHO THE FUCK CARES, THIS IS SUCH AN UNIMPORTANT AND OVERUSED TALKING POINT.
Higher gas prices might encourage some positive change in folks when it comes to their travel choices. In the short term possibly more choosing to walk/bike (or more realistically choosing to abstain from going somewhere that they otherwise would've driven) and in the longer term it'll encourage more efficient vehicles. Energy has been way too cheap in the US for too long and it really encourages a lot of the waste that we see
This is one of Iran's main goals, IMO. They need to get the US to back down through domestic and diplomatic pressure. This war is already unpopular, but gas prices increasing will affect people who otherwise don't give a shit about the morality of the situation, which is unfortunately quite a lot of US Americans. Hitting the wallet of the MAGA voter is fundamental.
the US mostly self sufficient with oil, big oil wants this war so they can make extra stupid money gaming the oil futures markets.
once you've reached end-stage capitalism, where there's no real room for organic growth, all that's left is rent-seeking and smashing windows to "increase liquidity" in the markets (from sane/smart actors who have to hedge, even if they do know it's all a game). the ones who don't see the full picture or are over-leveraged go out of business and act as distressed assets to be bought out by established players.
this is what republicans do every time they're in power, they're abject disaster capitalists, proud in their cruelty.
the US mostly self sufficient with oil
Yes, but they aren't completely isolated from changes in wholesale oil prices, if the price of oil goes up, the shale oil producers in the US are going to increase their prices too because they can, no?
I agree with everything else you wrote!
Those are rookie numbers. You’re gonna have to pump those numbers up.
"We did that!" - Trump and Kegsbreath
gas has been incredibly cheap and I think this is one thing that has kept us going over the last year. 8 bucks a gallon would be where it would be to be close to where we were post 9/11.
Are you thinking of Katrina? Granted, I wasn't old enough to drive when 9/11 happened, but I don't recall gas prices spiking. But they sure as hell did after Katrina.
In what location? In the US, directly after 9/11, has was pegged at .99/gallon because Bush made some kind of deal with oil execs. But they did raise it eventually. Not to 8/gallon though. Unless you're speaking of Europe?
no it went over 4 which would be well in excess of 8 nowadays
Close, but not quite. Still impressive that a mere 25 years almost halves your money's value though.
If you had $10,000 cash in your mattress you would have less than $6000 now.
Always try to remind people similar things. Had my first job in highschool during the 2006/7 inflation. Making 8.25/hr when gas was 4.25+ after cash discount.
When it was around $4/gallon recently I told people to just fuck right off, since I was making at least 3x what I was 18/20 years ago. Still a bit ass since "18/20 years ago" makes me a mid-age adult now. Got them bigger bills. At least gas prices have slowed down.
Hmm, good thing I drive an EV and live somewhere the electricity costs 15 cents / kWh.
Yup, it jumped from. $2.90 to $3.50 near me today. I knew this would happen, glad I filled up yesterday.
$2.75 to $3.19 today. I'm betting on $3.75 by the end of the week.
Welcome to California suckers!
Actually I'm still paying nearly $5, but everyone is catching up.
I suspect we will continue outrunning them though.
Came here to be like "fuck I wish it was down to $3/gal out here..."
It's like 3.90 something at the closest 3 gas stations near me. But they are currently in a bit of a price war so...
It's $6 a gallon in the UK, I think a good chunk of that is tax/duty tho.
Cannot convert precisely right now, but in Germany I'd say gas is currently at 1,90€ per liter. That would place the gallon at 7.00 to 7.50 USD.
I wonder what the price would be without subsidies.
But thank goodness eggs are cheap! Ammiright?!
Only worse from here probably.