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.
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 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!
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.
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!
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!
If Dems said that before the '24 election, to eat less food and drive less to save money, everyone would go mad lol, but this magafool says it and they cool with it.
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.
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.
Hope all the miserable assholes who voted for stopping electrification feel it in every part of them. I hope they have to give up on real, meaningful life dreams forever because they are now unaffordable. And I hope their houses specifically burn down in the wildfires the CO2 from their gasoline made so common.
I am beyond done with this gasoline bullshit.
US government evolution of transportation ideology
- Walking is for the poors and the idiots
- Cycling is for suicidal maniacs
- Public transit is big government and communism and you’ll get mugged
- Cars are driving up gas prices
- ???
- PROFIT! (for the oil companies and the rest of the ruling class)
The trick to having less fascists in control is to eliminate fascists.
