Gas $7.29 this morning

Anyone who is dependent on cheap gas is a moron who has outsourced their financial decisions to the whims of sheiks in the middle east, or politicians. Most of them are probably driving giant pickup trucks and living 100 miles away from work. All bad decisions.

Lumpy Detector wrote:

comedyre1:3f wrote:

If you think inflation is bad now, wait until the dems unite and pass their $3.5 trillion green new deal. That will only add fuel to the inflationary fire.

Why? They plan to pay for it by tax increases on corporations and the wealthy.

Unlike how Trump cut revenue and increased spending. With predictable results.

Ok Boris. Why would you up taxes on companies? That is about the dumbest thing you can do to regional economies. Are you just hoping to go back to the Bush/Clinton era of sending jobs overseas?

Vineyard Vines wrote:

Anyone who is dependent on cheap gas is a moron who has outsourced their financial decisions to the whims of sheiks in the middle east, or politicians. Most of them are probably driving giant pickup trucks and living 100 miles away from work. All bad decisions.

My wife's small SUV has worse fuel economy than my pick up. And since you're probably disconnected from the real world, some people have careers or jobs that revolve around driving trucks and heavy equipment (like farmers and construction workers). Are you really that crappy of a person to wish bad upon people who don't live in crime infested, overly taxed, pollution dumps in urban areas? Not everyone rides a bike to work and sits in an office serving virtually no purpose, moron.

Ben Jammin wrote:

Vineyard Vines wrote:

Anyone who is dependent on cheap gas is a moron who has outsourced their financial decisions to the whims of sheiks in the middle east, or politicians. Most of them are probably driving giant pickup trucks and living 100 miles away from work. All bad decisions.

My wife's small SUV has worse fuel economy than my pick up. And since you're probably disconnected from the real world, some people have careers or jobs that revolve around driving trucks and heavy equipment (like farmers and construction workers). Are you really that crappy of a person to wish bad upon people who don't live in crime infested, overly taxed, pollution dumps in urban areas? Not everyone rides a bike to work and sits in an office serving virtually no purpose, moron.

People that work in jobs that require driving should be indexing their costs to the cost of fuel. If they aren't, they're dumb. Everyone is aware of fuel surcharges when prices go higher. Nothing new there.

If someone wants to commute long distances for an office job buy a Prius. The cost differential between three or four dollar gas won't matter. Again, make better decisions instead of complaining.

It's not about a person's commute (although that does cut into one's disposable income). It's about price increases on every other thing you purchase on a daily basis. Higher fuel prices result in higher prices on everything you purchase, which is a big driver of inflation recently. The exact same thing happened under Carter. Biden's policies are Carternomics 2.0. He cancelled Keystone, he put a moratorium on drilling permits on federal lands, and many democrat run states enacted anti-drilling legislation that decreased the non-federal lands that petroleum companies could drill by almost 85%. In Colorado, the voting Public rejected Prop 112 in 2018, only to have essentially the same restrictions legislated the same restrictions in Senate Bill 19-181. Then they whine about poor people not being able to afford food or heat their homes.

disbelief wrote:

This morning at the pump in Northern California.

We went from a raving lunatic to a complete failure in only a year.

Literally 20% of the nursing staff snd respiratory therapists at the hospital I work at have quit in protest of the vaccine mandate. Another barrage will be coming after burning out because of lack of shift coverage.

Tax increase inevitably coming.

Inflation increasing.

Literally hundreds of ships backed up in LA.

Eff all these politicians- dem and repubs both.

/Rant.

If you think inflation is gonna be bad TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE NOW! You can get under 3% fixed for 30 years!!!

Counterpoint: fossil fuels are bad.

Lumpy Detector wrote:

[quote]comedyre1:3f wrote:

If you think inflation is bad now, wait until the dems unite and pass their $3.5 trillion green new deal. That will only add fuel to the inflationary fire.

Why? They plan to pay for it by tax increases on corporations and the wealthy.

No chance. Time to wake-up

Lumpy Detector wrote:

comedyre1:3f wrote:

If you think inflation is bad now, wait until the dems unite and pass their $3.5 trillion green new deal. That will only add fuel to the inflationary fire.

Why? They plan to pay for it by tax increases on corporations and the wealthy.

Unlike how Trump cut revenue and increased spending. With predictable results.

And increasing taxes on corporations that produce many of the goods that you consume won't cause them to increase what they charge the consumer? And the additional spending when there is already scarcity of labor, raw materials, etc. in many locations won't cause prices on those to increase either?

In April 2019 gas at the same station cost $11.75 a gallon.

Remind me: Who was President then?

https://www.ksbw.com/article/california-gas-prices-gorda/38018610

Harambe wrote:

disbelief wrote:

This morning at the pump in Northern California.

We went from a raving lunatic to a complete failure in only a year.

Literally 20% of the nursing staff snd respiratory therapists at the hospital I work at have quit in protest of the vaccine mandate. Another barrage will be coming after burning out because of lack of shift coverage.

Tax increase inevitably coming.

Inflation increasing.

Literally hundreds of ships backed up in LA.

Eff all these politicians- dem and repubs both.

/Rant.

If you think inflation is gonna be bad TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE NOW! You can get under 3% fixed for 30 years!!!

Unironically this... Rates are already on their way up

Vineyard Vines wrote:

People that work in jobs that require driving should be indexing their costs to the cost of fuel. If they aren't, they're dumb. Everyone is aware of fuel surcharges when prices go higher. Nothing new there.

Which is why higher fuel prices affect everyone, even if you don't drive, unless you're Amish or live on a self sustaining hippie commune (nothing wrong with that)

zvcdszatfer wrote:

OK, Boris.

Vaccine mandates aside, most fully support them especially for HC workers, please tell us what Joe Biden did or didn't do that caused all these problems. Guy is trying to mop up a complete clusterfook. Absent the pandemic and the disastrous Trump response to the pandemic, which of these problems would or wouldn't exist?

Also, I've never see anywhere near 7.29 gas and I live in the DC suburbs (ie an expensive place here in the US, Boris). Gas is 3.50 ish. Cheaper at costco.

So anything that is supported by the majority is acceptable for the all?

zvcdszatfer wrote:

OK, Boris.

That's right, start your virtue signaling with an openly racist slur