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Trump warns US fuel retailers: Cut gasoline prices immediately or face 'big problems'
(www.firstpost.com)
What a fucking clown
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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Sounds like communism to me.
Gas prices cut. BOOM! Government subsidies given to oil companies to offset their loss. BOOM! End users pays for it all yet again.
and theres no money to pay for it, so it will, of course, be paid via another massive, crippling blow to our already exploding debt.
because debt doesnt matter under republicans.
and debt doesnt matter to trump because he'll die before facing any of the consequences.
I just drove across seven states in the US and the lowest gas prices were in the red states. I don’t know why that was unless there is some sort of state subsidy to keep Trump from looking stupid.
I know at least one state has suspended the gas tax, which is a state subsidy in practice.
A lot of it is tax based, but there are some other factors. CA has high fuel taxes, but they also have higher standards to ensure cleaner burning. AZ is a good place to see how much difference the cleaner burning fuel costs because Maricopa county (Phoenix area) requires gas stations to use CA standard fuel, but not the rest of the state. So compare gas in Phoenix to gas in Tucson.
There are a lot of other factors such as transportation costs, and infrastructure that keeps gas cheaper in the southern states where there are more refineries. Or coastal states where crude oil is more easily shipped to.
Looking at a map of oil refineries in the USA, there is a lot all over the midwest which trend red. Given rail is pretty big in those areas it's cheaper to ship to markets.
And I'm over here wondering why its still so cheap.
Sure, Trumpty dumpy.
Oil may be $68 a barrel right now, but the gas they are currently selling wasn't made from it.
But you'd have to not be a moron to understand that.
EDIT: Found the morons.
Sure sure what a bullshit excuse. Why do prices rise instantly then. I have heard oh they Ned to charge the replacement cost. So which is it?
Generalissimo Trumpo says sell gas for free.
Trump promised $2/gal on 'day one' of his presidency. So where the fuck is our $2/gal? Liar!
For Europeans, that's around $0.52 per litle
Or about a quarter of the current price.
In Canada, I remember prices like that around 1990 - I’m sure they will achieve that, as well as other prices from that era such as $0.50 hamburgers and $1 boxes of cereal
Which we can eat in our $90,000 houses.
The retailers? Wouldn't that be the gas stations? Is he targeting the small business / franchisee while giving the oil companies a free pass?
The gas stations make no money on gas. Gas just brings in customers for the delicious hotdogs.
First rule of being a bully is always prey on the weak, not the strong.
The big oil companies already laughed in his face and told him 'shut your stupid mouth or we'll use our lobbyists to get you impeached'.
He's buying in again before the price spikes. Lebanon still dooms any Iran deal.
GOUGING The word is gouging. The number of times I see "gauging" used for this is too damn high!
It's one of those words that I see misused all the time, like rouge (instead of rogue) and loose (instead of lose).
Rogue:
Rouge:
POTUS is a dunce.
I suspect sometimes his typos are intentional.
He can turn around and say “I told you there’d be no gauging the gouging! Why didn’t you listen?”
No one likes a loose goose.
So is he pro-free-market or not? Inquiring minds and all...
He’s pro-Trump, and will do whatever it takes for Trump to win bigly.
And THAT is what it's all about... Lowering gas prices because he knows that if gas is still over $4 / gal in November, Republicans lose big...
But Gas prices aren't coming down until the war he started is over, and even then, it may never come back to where it was...
He's Pro Dumbass.
That's interesting, so are his followers...
As if he would even understand the concept.
So, they go out of business, monopolies buy them up, operated by price scalpers? Great plan....... For evil Nazi scumbags
Gauging, is that how they say gouging in Yankee land, or is that a typo?
Neither. It's a retarded president.
Calling him retarded seems offensive to the differently able.
He's got soup brain.
Guessing it's an auto-correct. Gauging is measuring/quantifying. Gouging was what they should have bee looking for.
He didn't give a shit a little while ago, but I guess his handlers realize that's not winning any votes and with the elections coming up....
But don't worry, he'll stop caring the second he wins again.
Do you think retailers need some freedom?
Broken clock...
Eh, the gas retailers (gas stations) are usually running on pretty thin margins when it comes to the fuel.
They make most of their money from selling other overpriced stuff in the attached store.
They do (usually) make some profit on fuel, yes ... but comparatively quite little most of the time. Because competition is stiff, and people will absolutely go to a different nearby station if the other one is even 1 cent cheaper.
For most of them, significantly cutting the cost of fuel would mean selling fuel at a loss. Of course, absolutely zero stations are going to do that just because of some vague (and probably toothless) threats from President Pedo.
Yeah, gas stations in competitive areas will even occasionally sell gas at a minor loss, to drive more traffic into the lobby where they make the vast bulk of their profit. Gas station pump prices are almost universally determined by the price they can get their fuel at. And that price isn’t set by the station, it is set by the refineries and distributors, who largely base their prices off of oil futures. And oil futures don’t give a fuck what current oil prices are. If gas prices are high right now, it’s because gas distributors expect the price of oil to go up again.