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Is everyone in America just constantly crashing out right now, or acting normal by their standards? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In my head they are very normalburger if that makes sense. They think Trump can stop the war enough to affect the market, right?

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The oil prices have not hit the average consumer hard yet. They are releasing oil reserves and taking other measures to artificially reduce the price increase. It will probably take a month or two before things really starts to go down. (or up in this case)

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Just in time for the summer travel season!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah gas prices (about the only commodity that normies interact with) have only gone up by like 30-40 cents per gallon, about the same price they were 6-12 months ago. Normies only wake up once it gets to around $4/gallon or about a full dollar per gallon more than usual.

The last time gas prices went over $4 a gallon I heard many drivers of excessively large gas guzzling SUVs and Trucks complaining that they couldn't fully fill their tanks due to the $100 limit on most gas pumps.

The $4 mark was also when people started actually making choices to drive less (and voicing these choices) and if it was sustained they seemed likely to choose to replace their vehicles with something more efficient