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The original Reuters article instead of this dumpster fire of a source. (Canned explanation whenever I’m not so lazy.)
Also, the IB Times (as usual for this piece of shit outlet) is citing a quote from over a month ago as if it’s new news.
Makes these old images of Biden raising gas prices funnier to dig back up. Omg $3! When some places now are pushing $6.
Here in the Southeast, those stickers were all over the place, too! Sometimes I’d even see them inside stores, people were putting them out faster than employees could remove them. They weren’t just used at gas pumps, though that was obviously the primary placement for them.
I’ve only seen the Trump version online so far. Wonder why those same people who were putting out the Biden ones aren’t getting the Trump ones out as quickly?
I’m sure it’s not that they’re low-life partisan hypocrites. It’s probably the lingering effects of the illegal tariffs driving up the cost of the stickers at a time when they’ve lost their jobs and healthcare so they literally just can’t afford the gas or the stickers to be able to put them out. I’m sure it’s that.
Many places In europe charge more than 2 euro per liter. so like 9 usd for a gallon.
also many places in europe have more fuel efficient cars
I’ve already seen several of Trump at the pump
Saw one in the middle of nowhere a couple weeks back and was pleasantly shocked
Guy who doesn’t pay for his own gas doesn’t care about gas prices. More at 11.
“let them
eat cakeuse diesel”Diesel is more expensive in the US.
Cake is more expensive than bread
and some breads in the US qualify as cakes due to unnecessarily high sugar content
* most bread. I was horrified last time I visited. Even what was supposed to be whole grain bread was just dyed light “bread”
how else can we give enough
customerscitizens diabetes to fuel the profit generating system that is the sickcare system run by insurance companiesI’ve heard you can cure diabetes by injecting bleach
Where are going, Walmart? All the bread at my local big box supermarket is as advertised. Plenty of actual bread alongside the wonderbread, and the stuff in between.
And American industry has enshitified, so any cake we make tastes terrible. Most things taste terrible now, even our vegetables have become flavorless.
Or at best, tasteless. My kid got some choco rolls the other day and offered me a bite. Tasted like nothing. I was like “no wonder I’ve lost weight, these things used to taste good”
“ethel, get them damn kids hitched up to the truck! they pull slow and we gonna be late!”
diesel is quite bougie for his followers.
Why should he care? He doesn’t pay for gas. That’s somebody else’s problem.
He has a whole country to pay for his gas… imagine how great that’s be if you were the biggest douche in the universe?
I sort of wish South Park would redo that episode with Trump instead cause he definitely beat out John Edwards. Could even just be a cut and paste for the most part, slightly different dialogue. Then a short live action apology with Matt and Trey saying hiow sorry they were that they didn’t realize there was such a better candidate when they first aired it and how much Trump is so much douchier than their original winner. Fuck even top it off with a cheesy gold paint sprayed award sent to acknowledge his accomplishments.
Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.
In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month. The whole country is broken.
Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.
Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.
In parliamentary democracies, it defaults to the status quo. Basically last year’s budget, plus that changes that it entailed. Taxes are still coming in, so there is no reason to stop money from going to places it needs to go and the difference between balance is called a deficit. Belgium could not form a government for 1-2 years rcently and ran through this scenario.
Its amazing that not only did the US never plan for this scenario but they’ve never changed it since. How do you convince someone to work for you when they might only get paid for 10 months a year?
And that downtime won’t be good for productivity either.
For parliamentary democracies the budget is the big point of contention. Most votes of no confidence happen because a failed budget proposal.
So where are all the “I did that” stickers on the gas pumps with his face?
I’ve seen a couple.
I bought a pack of googly eyes to add to the ones I see, but haven’t seen any recently.
Ive seen one of JD Vance with a tiny head ala the Super Mario Bros movie Koopa but no Trump ones (in person) yet.
His is entirelly a “some of you might suffer and I’m willing to make that sacrifice” perspective, and he and his family have surelly made more than enough money frontrunning his proclamations to cover any costs he has from higher fuel price rises, so he is alright.
“Let them eat cake”
Knew I’d find this quote.
Yeah. The morons he had to appease already gave him a 2nd term.
Can somebody explain this part to me?
He also signalled hope towards the fuel costs going down in fall, telling the host, ‘I hope so. I mean, I think so. It could be. Or the same. Or maybe a little bit higher. But it should be around the same. I think this won’t be that much longer.’
How can this be reported as him signalling hope? This is gibberish. Best part of all is that stockbrokers and traders will run with this as if it is now a given and then act complete pikachu if it doesn’t happen.
Djezes this is the stupidest timeline.
How can this be reported as him signalling hope?
because it’s propaganda of a real story, you already know the right of it.
Materialists are showing the inherent self-destructiveness of their ideology
I hope so.
Amazingly, it seems they meant it literally. Usually “hope” in this context means you think there’s a good chance something will happen. Trump literally has no idea whatsoever.
He must have a great plan to win the mid-terms…wonder what that could be???
Voter suppression
He’s a secret stooge of the environmentalist movement and this is his endgame to kill the internal combustion engine. Wake up, sheeple!
Marie Antoinette wants her sentiment back
(Yes I know it’s apocryphal don’t @ me)
and her head?
If they rise, they rise. Just makes solar an even more fucking obvious choice.
110% my next car will be an EV.
That’s really funny. My electricity prices have basically tripled over the past two or three years and my use hasn’t changed.
With the push towards AI data centers that seem to have coats pushed to the average homeowner, I do not think an EV will be the most cost effective option, at least in “car” form.
Maybe an electric bike or scooter would be more cost effective
I know the prices vary by state and municipality but even with a 300% increase you might still save money overall with reduced maintenance and cost-per-mile. Filling up my tank with gas is ~$42 right now and with an equivalent EV it would cost ~$12 to fully charge (if it was 0-100%).
While my current use case for a car would not allow me to purchase an electric vehicle, my future case would. However, I am planning to wait for solid state vehicles. I don’t like how prone to thermal runaway lithium batteries are in their current state. That, and I don’t like the trend towards bigger and heavier vehicles.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to own a large diesel truck for when I need a truck, but it feels like such a waste as a daily personal commuter vehicle. Most of the time, it’s literally me and my spouse. Sometimes we have groceries, sometimes luggage. It’s such a waste of space and energy to be transporting an extra 3000 lbs around
I feel you… I went full electric and despite having solar I’m at about 300€ monthly. And that’s on top of the cost of solar and the production I get from the panels. The less we take on the grid the more expensive it is. Now we pay to inject our production when we don’t auto consume it. So all in all it’s always about paying more.
But at least we are not fucking up the air anymore which was the initial idea.
Hybrid vehicles are still an option.
I bought a used 2014 Chevy Volt 3 weeks ago and am averaging 250 mpg since owning it, it’s got a lifetime 140 mpg average.
I live 13 miles from work so essentially not using gasoline. So stoked.
The higher the price of gas is, the more hybrids make sense.
Even if gas prices were low, I’d still want to buy a hybrid because prices don’t always stay low.
I need a vehicle powered by spite. It’s my most common fuel, why can’t my car take it too?
Pretty sure that would be my bike
