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What is this, 2002 again?
Headlines:
"Hey we attacked the Middle East again TOTALLY FOR MORAL REASONS against the dictator our intelligence agencies propped up in like the 80's!"
"Pain at the pump. More at 11."
Trump "I did that!" sticker makers love this
I have been saying, where the heck are those?! First he comes for your groceries, then the gas.
Less than half as much as we pay here.
I take back what I said in 2020. Turns out the president can control gas prices. Bombing an oil-significant country does that effectively.
Lots of people can make prices go up. It's much harder to bring them down.
Lots of people can make prices go up.
Let's find some that can do that for wages and we'll have a real wizard on our hands!!
Think about this for one second. The fact that people have to spend an extra dollar per gallon of gas and it is that impactful to their finances should be the bigger story. How fucked are most people they can’t absorb an extra $50 or so per month for gas increases?
It’s not the gas prices, it’s how strapped the American people are. That’s the story.
Anything to bleed out the poor people who finally made money with the upturn of the economy last year. The goal is to bankrupt us for life and I'm not joking. People here really must be stupid or pussies if they don't see that as a direct threat to their safety and lively hood.
The bigger story is that modern western societies still require most people to regularly interact with gasoline or diesel. If you think about it, regularly purchasing and burning toxic, polluting fossil juice just to get around is super fucked up.
These fucks will complain about it but never blame trump. They're incapable.
He's just breaking our dependence on oil, he's a green party infiltrator.
Imagine if I could afford an EV for the 45 minute-by-freeway commute to my job that strangely doesn't suck.
...An EV that's not a swastikar... they're freaking everywhere out here. Disposable appliances on wheels.
... I'm not saying anything in particular here except that we're just kinda backed into a corner AGAIN without a viable alternative.
Mass transit requires good zoning laws. Government creates problems..
If we look at the long term effect, assuming the United States is still standing, yeah probably. If we look at his intentions, lol couldn't be more opposed to reduced reliance on oil
Except donnie dumbass has been waging war on EV, solar, and wind, too.
Yeah but sending the world into a global recession... all because its reliance on oil... only really says hey maybe this whole oil thing is stupid to the normal people of the world...
We can get basically free energy from the sun and other technologies? Why are we doing this again...
But then I remember covid... and yeah people are just dumb
Where are the "I did that" Trump stickers?
My FIL has been putting them up all over. He also uses super glue to affix them.
someone will have to remove it, regardless of their political opinions, and it won't be the president
Well, they don't have to remove them.
Also, lots of redcap dumbasses will get to LOOK at them first. :)
working on it
Nearly $7 here in Washington state
Quick someone find the sticker
Oh no the poor Americans, how will they survive paying slightly above a third what we pay here? Denmark and I suppose most of Europe, except the countries where it's more expensive and Americans pay less than a third.
USA is an immoral country, that has failed to tax fossil fuels since the 70's to limit the use of them.
Americans should be ashamed of themselves for the level of CO2 per capita USA is producing. Which is twice than what it is for EU and China.
I hope a lot of Americans fail payments on their gas guzzling SUV over this.
I chuckled a bit when seeing this headline. "Really? 4usd per usg? So cheap. That's what all this fuel crisis is about?"
In the US gas companies are subsidized to keep prices down. We pay in tax dollars in other ways, whether we drive or not. This impacts regular gas, but also groceries and other goods traveling across the country bigger than the entirety of Europe.
Also outside of a few cities, there's very little public transit.
Part of the reason that there's little public transport is that gas is subsidized
Not really. If gas subsidies stopped, public transit isn't going to just pop up. It would require a complete overhaul of the entire geographic placement of buildings and zoning rules.
Trillions of dollars over many years would have to be spent to make the US like the EU. Not just on infrastructure but also on businesses. There'd have to be incentives to open a grocery store in walking distance when box stores still exist. Thousands of people would be required to open a small business or manage a store.
In reality, if gas subsidies stopped the cost of everything would just increase astronomically. The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It's too far gone.
Yup. Doesn't matter what you do to gas, the US seems to hate public transportation. We each need our own bus to drive around. It's infuriating. I would love to take public transportation. But it simply doesn't exist in most of this country. We have to have a vehicle to get around, and I'm sick of it.
The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It's too far gone.
This is misinformation. US cities were built with extensive streetcar networks, so much so that the first suburbs were called "streetcar suburbs." They were ripped out because of the misguided notion that they needed to be profitable (a double standard that only applied to rails and not roads, BTW).
They also had vibrant, dense, walkable downtowns, which were demolished circa the 1970s to "make room" for parking lots for car commuters.
Do not try to pretend that that was inevitable or irreparable, because it's not. European cities, like Amsterdam, were also demolished in the middle of the 20^th^ century, and guess what, they were rebuilt for the car too! But unlike us, the folks in the Netherlands realized their mistake and demolished and rebuilt again to put back the the infrastructure you see there today.
We can fix car dependency.
bigger than the entirety of Europe.
That's completely irrelevant, yet Americans keep using that argument.
USA consist of 50 states, the distance of transport is determined by whether it's profitable, with higher gas prices, the longer transportation would increase prices on groceries from further away, and stimulate more local production.
Building more train transportation would also lower CO2, but USA is doing none of the things that could help.
In Europe Sweden has probably the longest transports in Europe, yet their CO2 is almost half (3.43) the average of EU (6.276), with USA (21.03) at more than triple the EU average!!
Europe has worked way harder than USA since the 70's to reduce unsustainable use of fossil fuels, the enormous difference now is because of half a century of failed policies of USA to do the same.
For instance on solar USA has less than EU, despite USA has way better conditions for solar than EU has.
Why are Americans keeping making excuses for the inexcusable?
USA is a shit country endangering the entire globe with their irresponsible CO2 emissions.
Its easy to not be car centric when you have proper public transportation infrastructure and multiple countries are within 30 minutes of driving to one another. Here some people drive 2 hours everyday just to get to work.
And this is 100% on Donvict.
Any "i did that!" stickers are entirely appropriate in this case....get ready for buttmad donvict dead-enders...
In four years? What happened before four years ago??? What changed in that time in-between???!!! Must have been the Olympics.
2022 when the Russia hit the fan in Ukraine
Meanwhile the UK at $7.10 per US gallon
This is how much it is about in my state in the US
$10.37 in Switzerland.
Last thing you should be worried about as America massacres children, keep showing this but keep in mind how low in priority it is.
This is how you get the masses to actually care about something.
Still ⅔ of the price of gas in Sweden. 🙃 Leasing an EV via work feels pretty safe right now.
Yo dawg we are winning so hard bro I hope we keep winning and win harder!!!