Keep in mind that in some countries, fuel is 3 dollars per litre.
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Where's all those "I did that" stickers?
I still have some trump ones in a drawer somewhere. Pissed off half the damn town last time I broke them out. Though they never knew who did it!
"We did that!" - Trump and Kegsbreath
Price of fuel in the USA always shocks me. Closer to $8 a gallon here in the uk.
What's always funny is that pipeline interruptions don't really affect supply for many weeks. This is just panic pricing.
And as always, prices go up instantly but takes months to drop back down.
I was talking to the owner of an independent petrol station the other day who's petrol is usually a good 30% cheaper then the big chains.
I straight out asked him how he was able to consistently out compete them like this. He laughed and said it was because he wasn't greedy. He explained it was straight up greed at the retail level. Especially jacking the price up whenever the news said that oil prices had gone up.
I haven’t seen gas under $3 since Biden was around
It was always more expensive in California. I don’t know why but when I visited the US, I was quite shocked to see how big the price difference was between California and literally all the other states I’ve been to
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I paid $2.35 on Saturday, and I was pissed because the day before it was 2.25.
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Oh, bohoo. Those American gas guzzler riders would probably have a nervous breakdown at a European fuel station.
We have too many damned US-style “trucks” here in Australia now.
Our fuel prices have just crossed the equivalent of $5 USD/gallon ($1.90 AUD/litre); it will be interesting watching people squirm at the petrol pumps when the price inevitably increases another 50% or so.
We are currently at €1.85-1.90 here. The Dutch got it worse, IIRC they are at €2.60+ per litre.
War really is bad. My fuel is expensive now 😢
The gull of these Fucking terrorists
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Really hoping it gets up to $10 a gallon. Fuck all the SUV owners and the AI companies.
Uh, do you realize that with costs like that EVERYTHING will get more expensive? Every single good you buy anywhere has fuel costs baked into their price.
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It is fun to watch them tear up at the filling station.
I filled up my hatchback for like $25 a week ago, and the f250 next to me spent $65. It's going to get hilarious soon.
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Weird that affordability has never been worse (in my lifetime), inflation is not under control for actual necessities (like groceries), and yet there's not Trump "I did that" stickers all over the place. Wonder why those people who put out all those Biden "I did that" stickers, practically everywhere, don't care now. What happened to them? Hmmmm, guess the world will never know.
They have unparalleled cognitive dissonance skills
That's $1.08/L CAD. Think about that Canadians. They are complaining because their gas went up to $1.08/L 😆😅. Fuckers have no idea how good they have it. And kinda puts a spotlight on how things are here in Canada....4th largest oil producer in the world 🙄
Yeah, but you guys pay more because it includes taxes which go towards things like health care. We pay way more when you take into account what we don't get.
You might pay more, which I doubt, but at least you have a functioning healthcare system. We pay crazy level taxes for "free" healthcare where people constantly die waiting in emergency rooms 🙄. They say Canada is a "rich" country. They are wrong. The Canadian government is rich from soaking Canadians dry with taxes upon taxes!!
US has gas taxes pay for roads.
Canada pays for roads through other taxes so that even people who don't use them pay.
Canada sends our oil to the US and then buys it back. That makes up a lot of the difference.
In theory, but the gas tax isn't anywhere near high enough for that so most of the money ends up coming from property taxes which ironically also aren't high enough in the suburbs so they siphon money away from citities to pay for it
Yup, it jumped from. $2.90 to $3.50 near me today. I knew this would happen, glad I filled up yesterday.
This is one of Iran's main goals, IMO. They need to get the US to back down through domestic and diplomatic pressure. This war is already unpopular, but gas prices increasing will affect people who otherwise don't give a shit about the morality of the situation, which is unfortunately quite a lot of US Americans. Hitting the wallet of the MAGA voter is fundamental.
the US mostly self sufficient with oil, big oil wants this war so they can make extra stupid money gaming the oil futures markets.
once you've reached end-stage capitalism, where there's no real room for organic growth, all that's left is rent-seeking and smashing windows to "increase liquidity" in the markets (from sane/smart actors who have to hedge, even if they do know it's all a game). the ones who don't see the full picture or are over-leveraged go out of business and act as distressed assets to be bought out by established players.
this is what republicans do every time they're in power, they're abject disaster capitalists, proud in their cruelty.
the US mostly self sufficient with oil
Yes, but they aren't completely isolated from changes in wholesale oil prices, if the price of oil goes up, the shale oil producers in the US are going to increase their prices too because they can, no?
I agree with everything else you wrote!
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But thank goodness eggs are cheap! Ammiright?!
gas has been incredibly cheap and I think this is one thing that has kept us going over the last year. 8 bucks a gallon would be where it would be to be close to where we were post 9/11.
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It jumped 20¢ overnight when this shit started at my nearest gas station
Welcome to California suckers!
Actually I'm still paying nearly $5, but everyone is catching up.
I suspect we will continue outrunning them though.
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Didn't Trump take over Venezuela to bring oil below $55?
That is the fun part, trump never took over Venezuela just came in and killed the leader. Just like Iran has not been taken over.
Kidnapped the leader*
Fair enough, not really better but for sure weirder.
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