Yeah! He might do a thing?!
Maybe bleat about it. Maybe start another fight somewhere. Maybe he will send out goons to the stations.
Yeah, cmon!
The fine art of the deal. The subtle maneuvering behind the scenes, the long term strategic thinking, the focus on the good of the country, the deft handling of challenges along the way. See the master do his work.
I love vague threats like “big problems” or “consequences”
What a fucking clown
Sounds like communism to me.
Fun Fact: what killed communism wasn’t so much the ownership details of the means of production, but the fact they chose a command economy instead of a market economy. Planned or command economies are bad, no matter what political ideology is behind it.
Also: the way politicians world wide allowed conentration of mega corporations, I feel we are moving much more towards a command economy than a market economy.
I don’t even get this: china and the ussr, were the fastest growing economies ever. Both had some famines at the start and then solved their famine issue. They went from poorest countries in the world to superpowers absurdly quickly. This is a nonsense point. The reason they were so strict and ruthless is largely cia selection bias, and has nothing to do with their economic system, yes. But their means of production issues and therefore socialism is far from the problem.
I just drove across seven states in the US and the lowest gas prices were in the red states. I don’t know why that was unless there is some sort of state subsidy to keep Trump from looking stupid.
Indiana suspended gas tax from April until July 7th. It will likely keep getting extended as long as Trump wants it. We’re sub $3 in areas of the state.
We also cut school budgets so my kid won’t have a full time PE, art, or music teacher next year. I’m sure it’s unrelated.
A lot of it is tax based, but there are some other factors. CA has high fuel taxes, but they also have higher standards to ensure cleaner burning. AZ is a good place to see how much difference the cleaner burning fuel costs because Maricopa county (Phoenix area) requires gas stations to use CA standard fuel, but not the rest of the state. So compare gas in Phoenix to gas in Tucson.
There are a lot of other factors such as transportation costs, and infrastructure that keeps gas cheaper in the southern states where there are more refineries. Or coastal states where crude oil is more easily shipped to.
Looking at a map of oil refineries in the USA, there is a lot all over the midwest which trend red. Given rail is pretty big in those areas it’s cheaper to ship to markets.
I know at least one state has suspended the gas tax, which is a state subsidy in practice.
And I’m over here wondering why its still so cheap.
Generalissimo Trumpo says sell gas for free.
Gas prices cut. BOOM! Government subsidies given to oil companies to offset their loss. BOOM! End users pays for it all yet again.
and theres no money to pay for it, so it will, of course, be paid via another massive, crippling blow to our already exploding debt.
because debt doesnt matter under republicans.
and debt doesnt matter to trump because he’ll die before facing any of the consequences.
Oil may be $68 a barrel right now, but the gas they are currently selling wasn’t made from it.
But you’d have to not be a moron to understand that.
Sure sure what a bullshit excuse. Why do prices rise instantly then. I have heard oh they Ned to charge the replacement cost. So which is it?
Sure, Trumpty dumpy.
He’s buying in again before the price spikes. Lebanon still dooms any Iran deal.
Trump promised $2/gal on ‘day one’ of his presidency. So where the fuck is our $2/gal? Liar!
For Europeans, that’s around $0.52 per litle
Or about a quarter of the current price.
In Canada, I remember prices like that around 1990 - I’m sure they will achieve that, as well as other prices from that era such as $0.50 hamburgers and $1 boxes of cereal
Which we can eat in our $90,000 houses.
I miss the the days I could fill my car with $20, but I probably still complained about the price
So, they go out of business, monopolies buy them up, operated by price scalpers? Great plan… For evil Nazi scumbags
