Whatever makes you sleep at night bud
I remember this exact same post when Biden was president… oh wait, no I don’t.
Magas got mad at him for pressing the “raise gas prices” button when Russia decided to invade The Ukraine.
How much is lsd or shrooms in comparison? Im sure he will have a hell of a long trip for the price.
All the reading beyond this point was oppositional research.
If “Calvin’s dadism” was a cult, I’d be in it
The problem isn’t that prices are going up. The problem is we’re not paid anywhere near what we should be.
AKA The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
It’s both. We’re not getting paid the full value of our labor, annual wage cuts are the default, and the only safe ways to save require buying into that same system of oppression.
The problem isn’t any of those things. The problem is that there isn’t enough affordable housing, and not enough housing period. We’re literally in a near-global housing crisis. Everything else would be fine if that wasn’t the case.
Wages are double what they used to be when gas was $2/gallon. So $4/gallon shouldn’t be a problem.
The problem is housing, followed by grocery. And in some areas, followed by energy.
Gas isn’t even on the list. It only feels as bad as it does because of everything else.
Not that it couldn’t be cheaper.
…And not like any country is selfless with their natural resources.
I don’t strongly disagree; housing is one of those safe places to invest in our own oppression.
I would like to propose a solution…
And also the system of global exploitation that gave us cheap goods because we oppressed the global south into accepting low wages (aka imperialism) has reached a point where the capitalists are extracting diminishing returns. This means they have to turn their gaze towards home and exploit us more in order to keep increasing their profit margins.
For the damage it’s doing, fossil fuels should be several times more expensive to compensate in climate change costs and reduce demand.
There should be a carbon tax, but whoever signs it will be the least popular president in history. One of the flaws of democracy is that sometimes the thing that really needs to happen is unpopular with the moronic citizenry that can’t understand why it needs to happen.
There are countries who already do have a CO2 tax.
Remember when gas went up a little bit under Biden and these motherfuckers never shut the fuck up about it? I am sick of this shit
Which weighs more, a gallon of gold or a gallon of feathers? /s
Psshh you won’t trick me. They weigh the same.
Yes, so now you have “justified” the gas prices. What about the child grape, misogyny, racism, and general evil?
A gallon of petrol is a good use of $4 if you are going to have the pedo president burnt at the stake.
Pushing £2/litre here and I am still waiting for air quality to improve. Maybe £5/litre is necessary.
Higher prices for most with reductions on red diesel could possibly be a good compromise.
You don’t need a fucking SUV to go to the corner shop 500m away.
the corner shop 500m away
A lot of Americans live 30 minutes from the nearest real grocery store.
But yeah they still don’t need a lifted truck to go there. It’s not like the cashiers at the Wal Mart Super Center are going to be impressed by their Carolina Squat lifted white pavement princess, but that’s what they insist on driving.
30 minutes is cycling to another town here. Or if you want to drive during rush hour, it gets you half way down the main road.
That’s how the US is in certain metro areas. In the boonies there are hundreds of miles of rural back roads where people drive 60mph during rush hour.
Metro? We don’t even have a train station here. Would have to cycle to another town for that, or take a bus/ferry.
I didn’t say you lived in a metro area. I said those distances and travel times are only realistic in the parts of the US people consider very densely populated.
If only you were driving a normal sized car, the same amount of gas would take you twice as far.
I have a Hyundai Elantra that gets the same fuel economy
A current model year prius is ~3,250lbs / ~1,500kg and only gets 54mpg highway - what normal sized cars are you thinking of that will get you 60mpg without hypermiling?
Where I live, gas is 2.28€/L, that’s about $11.80/gallon, still people rather drive their car to work every day instead of riding the 2000€ eBike collecting dust in their garage, and they are 5km (3.1mi) away from work. I would argue has price is not expensive enough for them.
On the other hand, the student we have on part time, rides the train 2 hours to come, because it’s too expensive for him to tank up his motorcycle.
Pic I took the other day, price was the same when I drove past it last night
Technically he isn’t wrong, but not for the reasons he thinks. Gas prices are subsidized significantly. And if they weren’t, people sure wouldn’t drive as much. Unsubsidized it would be between 10 and 15 per gallon. So if 2 to 4 is double, that would mean it would now be 20 to 30. So like a dollar a mile in his math.
Smells like cope.
