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Murikkkans, lolololololololololololololol!
Ahh to be a logically voting, Prius driving, American.
Thoughts and prayers, or whatever.
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Yeah but oil mega corporatists have protected you from the Muslims and communists by.. aligning with the oil based Arab billionaires and Russian billionaires.
Gosh I feel so much safer around all these Christian Extremists!
No Matter Who Wins, We Lose
The people keep voting for the wealthy to get even richer, and regression for the majority, stupid choices from stupid people so it won't change.
I'd pay a MILLION Dollars a Gallon if it Means Billionaires can get MORE MONEY!
-People with "Trump = Lower Prices" Signs!
"As long as he lets us be openly racists, sexists, misogynists, nazis, and all around deplorable people, he can rob us blind.
USA! USA! USA!"
-his entire base
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And during his recent pump and dump scams he now has a lot of ownership shares and all that profit is flowing in abundance to ~~all~~ one the american people.
25 years ago, the cheapest gas I bough was $1.05 / gallon. I'm having a hard time thinking of any common products that cost less than 4x as much today.
Up until trump's tariffs, the distraction war, and the DoJ being favorable to tech bros.... I would have said RAM.
On a 25 year timescale that is still true. For now at least.
Solar panels and rechargable batteries (when you consider the production/storage, and not just the cost of a panel or battery)
I'm not saying the commentary on inflation is wrong, but I think it is interesting where we are seeing price increases, vs price decreases.
I don't see Trump telling big oil to sell gas at cost for the foreseeable future so I guess he is fine with the American consumer footing the bill of his war.
He's always been fine with it.
The rich already have money, they want stuff now. Sure, spend a few million more afford their lifestyles, but they're fucking billionaires. Meanwhile, everyday people are selling their houses and going back to renting to get by, or their farm goes under and they have to sell. We sell our shit to survive, and the rich buy it up because they are the only people with expendable income. Trump and his cronies found out during the pandemic that harsh times are really good for the ultra-wealthy. The affordability crisis is a bonus feature of his Epstein-files-distraction war.
Yeah he said "we're making a lot of money". And by "we" he means him and his cronies
He doesn't give a shit. He's insulated enough, and he got the votes he wanted in the transaction. Americans can pound sand with this guy.
And they'll do it again just to make sure the brown people get subjugated out of the working class.
With the Iraq war they had to come up with all these bullshit excuses and spend a ton of time and effort pushing the propaganda to the public. In a strange way it's actually better this time that they just said yeah, this war is about oil, look how much money we are making because fuck you, that's why.
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Don't worry, its due to trickle down any time now.
Also, it's Biden's fault.
Its just a little less expensive than a few days ago. Maybe if we use up all our oil reserves that would be fixed up in no time.
"War is a racket."
Murder money.
Fuckers could have nationalized solar electric decades ago and all those civilians would still be alive and the oil barons would be de-powered.
Cool,
We can arrest them,
Not under U.S. Law.
But what's that worth anyway?
Wait so does that mean that the true cost only went up by 18 billion.
In a similar vain, demand based pricing makes no sense in a situation like this, a tax does.
When something becomes scarce, it doesn’t increase its cost of production, it just needs to decrease consumption. They do that via a price increase to dissuade demand but pocket the difference.
What makes far more sense is a tax, similar to the carbon tax, that can go up and down based on limited supply or not. It can still reduce demand but the difference is that the extra money spent gets returned to the people.
I still don’t get why people hated the carbon tax so much.
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You're thinking what I'm thinking: what the hell happened do those 18B?!
I assume what happened was costs went up $18B, but they charged an extra $130B because they knew they could get away with it.
And then they release statements saying greedflation isn't real and that inflation is driven purely by consumer demand 🙄 please...
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Spent on the higher oil prices.
No I’m not because that would be pretty obvious… increased costs.
But, it’s also just a shittily written article.
Americans have paid $148B more during the measured period than last year.
Oil companies have made $130B in total profits over the same time period.
The critical bit left out is that last year they made $47B in profits over the same period. So, oil companies have made $83B more in profits than last year.
So Americans have paid $148B more while oil companies have made $83B more. The costs to the oil companies have increased by $65B.
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I care more about what everybody else has paid for the shit that the elected representatives of Americans are doing with powers given to them and which are widelly supported by Americans (most notably with their Nationalism, Militarism and support for a de facto Oligarchic power system) than I care about the consequences to Americans of their choices even if they disagree with the color of whatever puppet is POTUS.
IMHO most people in the World don't deserve this shit whilst, only a handful of Americans don't deserve this shit - even those Americans that didn't vote for Trump deserve this shit if they've been supporting Militarism and interventionism abroad under other Administrations (in other words, pretty much just the anti-War crowd in America who are consistently against in no matter the party in power don't deserve this shit).
it all started with an orange basketball
- wizard kelly
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