So we should see a resurgence of those "I did that" Biden stickers at the pumps right? Lmao
They blame him when prices are up. It's only fair if he gets credit when they're down.
My sweet summer child, that is not how this works!! Silly you
The new talking point is how Biden is allowing genocide in Israel... because Trump wouldn't have done the same exact thing....
Manufactured outrage. It's so boring but the older folks just love it I guess.
We should just buy up cable channels and make a fictional reality that we can sequester them to. Fox News. CNN. MSNBC but all scripted.
Don't even hide it, just have it in the script that some Tucker Carlson type says, "that's what the liberal media wants you to think." Hell, hire Tucker and O'Reilly for all I care.
Start broadcasting alternative dates, they wouldn't notice losing a week. Then have fake elections where their "alt Trump" just barely wins. Just to keep tensions high.
Hey, its a long shot but at least it has a chance at working. Unlike trying to change these assholes minds. Hell you don't even have to convince all the MAGAs of the alternative reality. Just like 8-10% maybe and you've spun out the GOP platform.
Q proves its possible.
Just the thought of some MAGA asshole feeling the need to peel the thing off is mildly satisfying.
If the Biden campaign was smart they'd have "I did that" stickers on his website
On one hand I'm very envious at your 0.72€ per liter as todays price here is 1.77€ in my little German town. On the other hand thats maybe not the right way to get people to choose fuel economic cars/EV/public transport.
Just got back from Germany. Your transit system is heaven to this American. Never let it die. Even the fact that two of my trains were heavily delayed and one was cancelled, I was still in awe of it all; it's such an inspiring set of infrastructure.
I think that is the whole point of the pricing strategy. Our fuel carries A LOT of taxes, theirs don't.
And yet people regularly call for a gas tax holiday when times are hard in the U.S.
There are a lot more people living paycheck to paycheck in the US than in Germany and other developed countries.
Agreed. Maybe they should call on the government to do something more productive and permanent than a temporary tax holiday.
Yeah, but every time the government tries to do something that could actually help people there are cries about "socialism" and "government overreach." There's no winning in American politics, so temporary tax holiday it is.
puts on tinfoil hat
EVs are starting to make a dent in the market place and oil producing countries don't like that so they lower oil prices to keep people driving ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) vehicles.
takes off tinfoil hat
I'm sure it's more complicated than that
Prices are always lower in the winter. It'll be back to $4.00 in the summer.
The single reason that gas is sold cheap in the United States is because the government subsidizes the hell out of it
puts on plastic wrap hat
EVs are starting to make a dent in the market place and oil demand is dropping because there are fewer cars on the road that use it, combined with the fact that the holiday travel season and its predictable effect on demand have ended
usa fuel has always been obscenely cheap
Heavier taxation in other countries. Plus, we pump our own oil these days.
I'm sure the front page of fox News is thanking Biden for that
THANKS OB…iden.
crickets.
"I did that!"
God damn sleepy Joe lowering gas prices, just who does he think he is??
I was wondering what would happen with those stickers. Thanks for beating me. I've not heard my conservative family thank Joe for this.
:cries in California:
As a Californian our gas prices suck, but when compared to minimum wage it’s not bad at all. Minimum wage is $16 an hour and $20 an hour for fast food workers by April. That means gas at $4 here is either 1/4 or 1/5 of your hourly pay per gallon. Vs a state where gas’s is 2.75 but your minimum wage is $7.25… that’s about 1/3. I always try to look at it from that perspective, especially for the poorest/minimum wage worker in California. They’re the ones that really notice and deal with high gas prices.
You listen here God damnit, when I fill up my f650 truck boat truck I want to take out a payday loan it hurts so bad!! Wait until my mutant oompa loompa gets back in office and he's going to show you what's what MEOW!!!11
I'm surprised that the attacks off of Yemen aren't causing oil tankers to go the long way around Africa and raising prices. Though I guess America has become a net gas exporter, so maybe we are finally insulated from supply problems on the other side of the word.
Oil price is determined by the global market, so it's nearly the same everywhere. If for some reason oil was much cheaper in the U.S., the oil companies would have tankers export it to other places, simultaneously increasing the price in the U.S., and lowering the price globally until it's about the same everywhere. I'm pretty sure it's actually more abstract and instantaneous than that though, using the futures markets to set the price, which is why gas stations change their prices so often. I.e. we will never be insulated from oil supply problems.
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