that won’t work. if everyone were to stop driving or relying on gas tomorrow. the oil companies would still raise the price because they are now “losing money” due to low demand and have to raise prices to make up for the make-believe money they are “losing”
No, with production then vastly too high they wound try to sell as much as possible to at least make some money before/during/after shutting down. But you are free point out where a product got obsolete/not bought and still more expensive despite high production in the past.
Right wing “solutions” to difficulties are always insincere, unreasonable nonsense like this.
Can’t pay your bills? Eat less! Can’t afford medical care? Shouldn’t have been unhealthy! Gas prices killing you? Drive less! Depressed and burned out? Just be happy and work harder! You think billionaires are greedy? Well what charities are you giving to!? Tired of capitalist exploitation? Stop buying stuff and go live in the woods! You love immigrants? Well then let them all live in your home!
Victim blaming dressed up as rugged individualism. Meanwhile those actually responsible for the hardships get off scot-free.
The trick to lowering gas prices is insert gif of guilottine coming down
You can pry my demand destruction from my cold hands by crashing the economy and laying me off!
I assume he doesn’t think this should be paired with ramping up public transit options and bike and pedestrian friendly infrastructure
no, thats evil socialist communism, you unamerican traitor! /s
The trick to saving money is just to not do anything ever.
Fucking big brain they’ve got there! /s
I would drive less if there were any decent public options that ran frequently.
Ever try waiting for a bus in South Florida sun, 95 deg F anf 100% humidity for 45 min just to have the driver wave you off because the bus is already full.
And meanwhile, here in the UK, the average is $8.40 per US gallon at the current exchange rate.
Yeah you stupid pay pigs, don’t you know economics!? Supply and demand! Just stop demanding the resource we spent decades making indispensable and kept artificially scarce!
Oooo let’s get all the cars off the road and ride bikes instead! He said it not me.
Wait until he figures out that wfh is a great way to reduce driving
The fact that more employers haven’t jumped at WFH is so telling. It’s basically equivalent to an increase in salary, an improvement in employee work life balance, and a wider recruitment pool all wrapped into one without them actually having to do anything, except maybe spend LESS money on overhead.
It’s something we could easily change to improve the lives of everyone and help the environment. I’m really disappointed we’re not seeing more support for it.
Its because a massive amount of our real estate economy is propped up by artificially inflated office space which would kneecap a ton of corporate and REIT profits if they were to go down to actually affordable costs.
That would mean almost all employers are somehow invested in office space, so much that they rather cripple their business. But that is clearly not the case.
No, just the big corporate ones and specifically the Companies and groups that hold major stock in a lot of other corps.
I can’t think of many groups more richly deserving financial ruin.
Eating less will solve food prices a bit. Just not eating will solve it entirely. And sleeping outside under a bush or in a nice box solves your housing issues. With all your problems solved we’ll be looking for you to work some longer hours.
Oh, look at Money Bags over here with their “nice box”.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
So we should expect the health department to suggest Breatharianism soon?
Now if people only had a choice to live in evil “15min cities” where distances are much shorter and feasible alternatives to driving are available and affordable, they actually could do that, without quality of life collapsing. Oh wait, having a non miserable life is no criterion for this administration, then forget that socialist 15 min nonsense, just drive less.
I’m living in one, or at least the 15-minute part of one. Small city in southwest England. I drive about once a week, to go out to the countryside to hike and visit a pub. Everything else is done on foot or on a bicycle. Highly recommended, despite it being totally evil. My MAGA relatives fear that I’m living in some hellish dystopia and it’s only a matter of weeks before I’ll be shot if I try to leave the city limits. They’re already spun up enough that I don’t own a gun and that I get my medical treatment on the NHS (which is under stress nationally, but still works well where I live). “Death panels,” y’know…
Now, if only the locals could figure out how to make decent Mexican food, I’d be perfectly content.
And, let’s all return to the office while we’re driving less, right?
Return to the office, don’t return home. Don’t go anywhere else. No driving.
*points at forehead*
