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I really want to see Iran say they'll reopen it only after trump is personally handed over to stand trial for his war crimes...
It will never work, but it'll fracture his support and more importantly he'll be ome convinced it's gonna happen and start turning on his own cronies even if they're loyal.
https://www.amazon.com/100pcs-Trump-Stickers-Donald-Merchandise/dp/B0DVSW4WD8
100pcs Trump I Did that Stickers Gas Pump Stickers Decal, Anti Trump Stickers, Fuck Donald Trump Mega Merchandise
5K+ bought in past month
https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Did-That-Stickers-2-5inch/dp/B0DWN53KXY
Trump I Did that Stickers, 2.5inch I Did that Trump Sticker 100PCS
10K+ bought in past month
So if each of those sticker packs has 100 stickers, and people have bought over fifteen thousand packs in the past month alone on those two Amazon items (and there are more) alone, that's over 1.5 million gas pumps that you'd need if you were going to use just those sticker packs.
https://www.fuelexpress.net/blog/general-information/how-many-gas-stations-are-in-the-us/
As of recent estimates, there are about 160,000 gas stations across the United States.
Like, people are going to have to be putting them on in layers or something. I don't think that there are enough gasoline pumps.
You can put them on other things too, like gas station toilets and portapotties
I don't think that there are enough gasoline pumps.
Remember, you have to put one on both sides of the pump in many places. And then you've got places like Buc-ee's with 120 pumps.
So I think you're actually underestimating by a lot!
It honestly makes me sick that this appears to be the line for most Americans. Fuck this country.
To be fair, once fuel prices go up the cost of EVERYTHING also goes up. So no it's not just about pain at the pump, it's pain at the grocery check out. Pain when the oil truck comes to deliver your liquid heat. Pain when you buy anything plastic, anything grown with fertilizers. People don't realize petroleum is in almost everything! And if it doesn't use a petroleum product in manufacturing, it certainly does in shipping.
Prices for the kinds of fuel ocean going ships burn have increased 25%-35% depending on the port.
The only thing that keeps most people complacent is they can manage to scrape by with their meager salary buying crappy goods. Take that away and Americans might get more revolutionary.
No one cares about victims of rape and pedophilia, that's other people, caring about other people is un-American.
$ is the only thing sacred in america, always has been
The best part is that even if everything in the Strait were to return to normal tomorrow, the oil price shock is just barely beginning to filter through the system, so there's absolutely nothing Trump can do to stop what he caused.
Oh yeah. Global logistics with slow-boat tankers are scheduled multiple months in advance to keep the machine flowing. With every single route now completely thrown awry, there's no going back for at least a year.
And then there is the whole inflation feeding through into Fertilizers (mainly from higher Natural Gas prices rather than Oil prices), in turn feeding through into Food prices, all of which carries even long delays to fully emerge in consumer prices because of the time food takes to grow (more so if you think cattle since fertilizer prices indirectly push costs up through the increase in feed prices, so there's even more delay there than for something like corn).
Just the first month of war has baked in many months of rising Inflation.
If only in the decades since the oil embargo of the early 1970s we kept investing in alternative energy sources we could have been in a much better place energy wise.
Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House roof. Reagan took them down. Pretty succinct summary of the past 40 years.
before anyone says "those solar panels didn't work very well" THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT. they represented a commitment to invest in the technology. the presidency is the bully pulpit. a person can change a lot about the direction of the country there without making meaningful change in the moment. Grant and Carter are probably the two presidents who tried the hardest to do something positive with that power
Yeah, but windmills cause cancer and solar is basically gay. And EVs - I'm pretty sure if you drive those when you are male, your penis shrivels up, falls off and you grow a vagina.
Oh hey, maybe if they didn't dismantle all the green energy and EV initiatives then the impacts would be mitigated a little bit...
Funny how that works...
The Sociopathic Oligarchs see the Dow as the leading indicator of the economy, and never notice gas prices.
But to the average American, the price of GAS is the leading economic indicator, and that number psychologically symbolizes the health of the economy in their minds. That number is displayed on every corner in the country, and every American passes it many times a day, driving it into their skulls.
This is NOT good for MAGA, and a reckoning is coming. MAGA is feral, and when they feel cornered, wounded, and scared, they will strike out ferociously. It's going to get uglier before it gets better.
The only big difference between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump is that Hitler didn't sexually abuse children.
Comparisons:
Should I continue?
Hitler death: 4/30/45
Trump birth: 6/14/46
Certainly a case to be made for reincarnation.
Except maybe his niece
You stupid fucking asshole.
Trump officials bracing for nightmare scenario of renewable energy and end of global hegemony.
What exactly are they “bracing” for? Not a single one of them has to pay out of pocket for it.
They are bracing for the voters to finally turn on them. Commit fraud? It's fine my gas is cheap. Sex with children? Eh whatever I don't want to consider if that's true or not as long as my gas is cheap. Bomb a school overseas? Whatever you've gotta do to keep my gas cheap. GAS PRICES ARE UP?! WTF IS THIS ADMINISTRATION DOING?! VOTE THEM OUT.
It's sickening, but it seems the price of gas is really all that matters to the Republican voter.
The cost of diesel, the lifeblood of the U.S. economy powering freight and manufacturing, also pushed past $5 a gallon this month, marking the highest rate since 2022. Experts have warned that the elevated price of diesel, made from crude oil, will trigger knock-on effects on groceries, shipping and construction.
Around 80% of Americans live in cities, where there is nowhere to grow realistically self-sustaining quantities of food. If people can’t buy groceries because it’s no longer economically viable to ship food products to stores, what’s the point of anything else?
If ONLY Iran would OPEN up the Straight ~~that was ALREADY Open BEFORE Trump bombed them for some Reason!~~ WE wouldn't be in This Mess! We NEED Trump to Fix ~~Trump's Fuck Up!~~ Iran!
-NOT Sheep Republicans!
Do it. First war and now gas prices. Two huge sore points for his base.
On March 20, he fumed that NATO allies have refused to help secure the strait, but he later appeared unconcerned. “At a certain point it will open itself,” he said.
I'd say that that sounds promising for EV manufacturers.
They're gonna nationalize our oil aren't they? Required sale to the government at a set rate and then government will turn around and sell into the domestic and international markets to balance prices at our pumps.
It's about the only option other than stop bombing Iran and that's not happening.
That would be hilarious actually
Oh Undoubtedly. I look forward to all the explanations as to why it's Capitalism when we do it and Socialism when Venezuela does it.
The GOP already knows that they have lost the majority, so they try every trick in the book to keep non-republicans from voting. But with those gas prices, even hardcore country yokels who voted for anything with "REP" to it, dead or alive, might start thinking about this.
