• Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Thank you so much to the Trump administration for raising gas prices LESS than the most he could have. That’s a job we’ll done. Now let’s get that arch and ball room constructed!

    /s

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    22 hours ago

    He’s not wrong, someone spent a lot of money shorting oil futures to keep this shit show together. After mid terms the prices might double lol

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    23 hours ago

    I have a feeling no matter who the GOP runs, the democrats are going to win the 2028 election. I also think it’s going to be very lopsided, like Reagan’s election in 1984. The GOP will probably win Texas.

    This amount of blind deaf stupidity to the issues prioritized by their voting base isn’t going to end well.

    I wish Bernie was younger. If Bernie was able to run in 2028 he would be the president our country needs. But he will be lucky to finish his current office at his age. The democrats will probably nominate someone dumb and we will end up with two cartoon characters running for office, and everything will keep getting worse.

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      5 hours ago

      In case you’ve missed it, these folks are a symptom not a disease. A good portion of the populace are evil and their party is working to gerrymander and cheat harder than ever before.

    • Bwaz@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      I wouldn’t count on that. The GOP has the billionaire’s money for campaigns, which no number of other peoples donations can match. And a ridiculous number of people get all their “information” from GOP nonstop propaganda (FOX News and other MAGA dominated networks)

    • NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip
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      20 hours ago

      In all seriousness, do you really believe there won’t be incredible amounts of fuckery in the 2028 election?

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        There’s too many large cities in those states that’d turn them purple. They’ll still win no city states like Montana

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      Typical abuser behaviour.
      “I only hit you once. Now thank me. THANK ME.

      Don’t make me hit you again!!!”

      “th…thank you.”

      “Thank you, what?”

      “thank you…sir?”

      “AGAIN!”
      “thank you, sir.”

      “Good peasant. Now go away and don’t cause any more trouble.”


      I used to be a live and let live kind of person, but the last ten years has made me a “kill the evil rich and powerful people” person.

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        21 hours ago

        Everyone deserves to live, as long as they don’t intentionally cause harm for the love of power/greed.

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    1 day ago

    We’ve been quite successful up to this point.

    Laughter

    Gas, frankly, could’ve been much, much higher lower were it not for our efforts.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      If someone is concerned about climate policy and wants people to curtail their ICE vehicle use, high fuel prices are probably going to be the only realistic way that this is gonna be exposed to the consumer (like, we probably aren’t going to have an administration impose fuel rationing or something) so this is pretty good. Not only are they high, but it’s also good odds that your favorite politician isn’t the one taking the political hit for it. As the article points out:

      In the U.S., gas prices were less than $3 per gallon before the start of the Iran war in February, and since then, the national average is now $4.14. That increase has cost Americans more than $50 billion, according to a Brown University analysis. As of this writing, the most expensive gas in America is in California, where car owners are spending as much as $5.78 per gallon. That has hurt the economy, with Americans spending a lot less money on vacations over the summer. Flights and road trips have also declined, as jet fuel costs have also been affected by the Iran war.

      https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/26/1134677/gas-prices-electric-vehicles/

      Historically, this is exactly the sort of moment that’s pushed people to reevaluate how they get around. During the oil crisis of the 1970s, Americans switched to smaller, more efficient cars in droves. It was a major opportunity for Japanese automakers, whose vehicles tended to fit this mold better than those produced by their US counterparts.

      Nice, round numbers do tend to get people’s attention. Some point to $4 per gallon (which the national average is quite close to right now). At that price, the total cost of ownership for an EV is comfortably lower than the cost for a gas-powered car, even with higher electricity prices, according to data from the energy consultancy BloombergNEF.

      Then again, maybe that won’t quite do the trick: One survey from Cox Automotive found that most US consumers would consider switching to an EV or hybrid if gas prices hit $6 per gallon.

      Mind, I don’t think that Trump is gonna get a Greenpeace or Sierra Club endorsement any time soon…