Rich people don't know the price of anything.
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I mean its one gallon of gas, what could it cost, $10?
Not that far off. In Vienna for example petrol starts currently at 1.6 EUR/L (7.1 USD/gal) and Diesel is around 1.8 EUR/L (>8 USD/gal).
The US has a serious problem of being hooked on unsustainably cheap fuel due to oversized vehicles, spread out, car only, suburbia etc. Add to that the lagging transition to renewables (or rather the outright hostility of the US administration, actively preventing projects)
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Maybe in parts of Europe
Yeah, but that's in euro-dollars, or whatever you call them over there. Who even knows how much that is in real dollars? (I honestly wish I could claim /s on this, but this is literally how most Americans would see it)
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He wouldn't care if he did. He just says what he wants to be true and gets away with it.
I seem to recall him claiming that he would get gas under $2/gallon. Where are we at on that?
Gas prices aren't my primary concern. I've hated him for years for better reasons, but gas prices seems to be the only thing that is waking his supporters up.
It’s the only thing a large portion of the population pays attention to or care about.
Gas prices and egg prices.
Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them. Fuel prices are actually crazy complicated and The President generally has very little control over them (unlike in this case).
Honestly I prefer the fuel prices to be higher to persuade the population to make better choices. I understand some bear that pain more than others.
I'm glad you said "in this case". You had me worried there, for a minute!
I was definitely triggered until then!
Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.
In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA's attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President's fault than it usually would be.
Yes that was mentioned literally right after the part you quoted.
The older I get, the more I agree with Calvin's dad. Adjusted for inflation, he wished gas was about $20 per gallon. Let's fucking do it.
The way I like to frame it is that no president has a "make gas cheap" button, but they all have a lot of "make gas expensive" buttons. Trump likes pressing those buttons because they aren't labeled as such
The thing is, when someone is bad at many different parts of their job, it's easier to build a coalition of people who each want him removed, for their own reasons.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad. <----
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
This reads like poetry.
Not mine, fwiw. It's circulated as "The Narcissist's Prayer" online.
This man thought a banana cost $10, and didn't go to a grocery store until after he was president.
There's always money in the banana stand
He was just quoted as making fun of the concept of the "corner store." Apparently he grew up in NYC, and has never heard the term Corner Store. Out of touch much?
Could you imagine him in a bodega? He probably couldn't fit through the aisles and wouldn't know what any of the food is anyway.
"Where's the Diet Coke?"
The clerk just waves in the general direction of the coolers without looking up from his phone.
"HEY! There's a fucking CAT back here!"
I actually agree with him..... They aren't very high in comparison to how high they are going to be very soon!
Or like, what the rest of the developed world pays for gasoline. We drive half price in the States, $4 is nothing. In Italy where some family live, fuel is (converted) about $2.10 a LITER. The average world price is $1.40 a liter. 3.8 liters to a gallon, the math isn't hard. We're complaining about having to pay a little more than half price.
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Only 65%???? Who the hell do the rest think caused the increase by starting a war of choice?
35% is about the point at which you will always have Republicans supporting something regardless of how awful it is as long as it is a Republican position. 40 years of brainwashing by right-wing propaganda and corporate media complicity with it ensure it.
Probably Obama or something insipid like that
like the biden inflation that was blasting up literally as he took office and was down by the time he left and curiously one year into trump is blasting up again.
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“they’re not very high…. They’re not very high… they’re not very high”
-Trump supporters trying to convince themselves
low gas prices is the only reason his other idiot policies have not caused collapse. Its all fairy dust and happy thoughts at this point.
Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war
So if we believe him, he expected it to be even worse and still went ahead?
DENY. You're such a liar. Wouldn't know the truth if it hit you in the street.
This fucker is so removed from reality he has no clue what’s expensive and what isn’t. I’d wager he’s never operated a gas pump in his life.
You could give him a $200k salary, a home in some little town, and a car that was all paid for, and he’d starve to death in a year. He is beyond clueless as to what people have to do on a daily basis.
What is wild is that so many reactionary centrists spent years lecturing the Biden administration and "blue MAGA" 🙄 for trying to explain the full context of the economy under Covid and instead trying to insist that instead of numbers, we should be listening to the vibes, man. Ignore all those market indicators, people feel bad, man, and anyone that says otherwise should be ashamed, etc.
Wonder where all these assholes are now, given that, as opposed to the case for Biden, we can point DIRECTLY at something that PEDOnald has done to drive things that hurt the economy and make everything more expensive.
Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”
So, does that mean he's going to do things to make it go even higher?
As in "it's not high yet"?
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