Good. Have the day you voted for.
the Iran *special military operation
All because of one low IQ pedo and the members of Congress and the public that support that pedo.
And still about 30% of voters…
Gas hasn’t been $3 in decade/s…
Thanks Obama! – 50% of the voters because propaganda
I am fortunate in that I don’t have to buy gas for my car all that often because I don’t drive a ton, but I’ll have to this week and I am not looking forward to it.
The good news is that it’ll be months/years before it ever gets back down to where it was two months ago 🫠
I drive 30,000+ miles a year because of a shitty commute and driving a couple hundred miles out of town most weekends to help my parents.
And since I rent I really can’t go electric.
You’re not immune. Don’t forget, the machines that farm, process and deliver everything into your mouthhole all need to pay for fuel also.
I would say that’s lights out for Republicans in the midterm elections, but we are well into full irrationality in this country at this point.
Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the terrorist attacks on Iran
warUntil gas prices drop I’m staying home. Work, rent, and groceries only.
Interesting way to announce your permenant Hermitage.
Unfortunately it’s not going down for a long time.
Will that have an impact on the trump phone I pre-ordered?
Nah, they have plenty of gas in Ghina.
It’s ironic that a guy who hates “chy-nah” so much and wants to “drill”, has likely done more to push Chinese cars worldwide, and EV’s than any other president in history.
Whilst quality of life has dropped, he’s also done an amazing job in pushing the AUD upwards vs USD too
Yeah he really made my BYD and CATL investments take off.
made my BYD and CATL investments take off.
BYD is not in good financial shape.
The problem is those thin margins and Chinese competition.
However the real transformation we gotta do is to move to more public transportation (which can also be electrified) but these budgets are all gone under Trump.
If this continues and people are forced out of their normal single occupant, drive to where they could have walked in 5min habits, I wouldn’t be surprised to see other options pop up. Except not public, but privately owned by one of a dozen billionaires. And you can’t pay by the ride, it’s a monthly subscription to use it. And only white people can sit up front.
I think this idea was floated and partially implemented by Uber already.
People need to realize that it doesn’t need to be profitable. Public transportation is a service with many beneficial side effects and efficiencies. The money you lose providing the service to the public reduces other costs. This is why corporations can’t and shouldn’t take it over.
Just to be clear: it doesn’t need to be free. But it could “lose” money.
Doesn’t need to be profitable but could be turned into something profitable is the guiding principle of the oligarchy. These are the people that don’t think food and water are a basic human right. And their constituency is of the belief that public transportation is a poverty indicator. When my city wanted to build a new bus depot in downtown they showed up en masse to speak against it because they said it would be a magnet for the homeless and crime, drive property values down. It’s a two front fight against the capitalists who know they can exploit it and the section of the general public that considers any use of public funds that don’t directly benefit themselves as theft. Don’t ask them to consider that every person on a bus is one less car in front of them while they’re stuck in traffic, they’re incapable of such abstract thinking.
Why? Couldn’t we embrace rail and renewables and electrify every car?
Oh we have to do exactly that, but my point is that just electrifying the cars is far from enough. We need fewer cars, not just have them be electric.
The candidate who proposes a nationwide high speed rail network with deep rural access has my vote.
We can’t give country folk easy access to cities, they might become more tolerant.
not Europe.
How do you get to the rail, and when you get to the destination city, do they have any public transit that isn’t shit?
It’s like he doesn’t understand markets, trade, geopolitics, or just basic business.
Not like we didn’t know that about him before he got elected. The first time.
Wait for the food prices to follow.
“Thanks Obama”
Your local ambulance and fire rescue’s budget almost just doubled. And mine, my machines all run on diesel which is now 6.49/ gal where I live. A lot of my budgets were written months ago
What you’re experiencing is why most other nations in the world are stepping up their adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles. You can’t plan effectively with this kind of volatility in your energy costs.
But here in the US it’s far more important for fossil fuel companies to make profits, even if doing so causes a recession.
