Oil companies have extracted $56.4 Billion from Americans since start of the Iran war.
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Fr. I’ve paid big oil zero dollars since the war started. Ebike ftw, also living a few streets from work and walking distance to multiple stores.
It‘s laughble how many conservatives acted like “our” oil companies would somehow take care of us and keep gas prices down. The only loyalty those companies have is to profit based on market demand. “America” doesn’t even come into the picture.
MFW I remember that I traded for an EV, installed whole house batteries, and solar panels.
Ughhh solar is so expensive now though and so many of those businesses are dying. I kept waiting for the subsidies but solar was not affordable :/
Now there’s no subsidies at all. Jelly.
The issue is that a bunch of solar without storage sucks for the grid and a lot of countries can’t afford all the storage so they can’t subsidize solar like they used to.
E.g in my country solar is unusable in the winter whereas in the summer we already have so much excess production sometimes that electricity prices go negative for daytime hours and you have to disconnect your panels from the grid unless you want to pay the grid company. We have 18 hour days in the summer and 18 hour nights in the winter.
Yeah, I wouldn’t doit now.
Congrats on being rich I guess…
Only the middle class worries about lowering their utility bills. Up until recently, everything i listed had huge federal incentive programs. Trump got rid of it all.
middle class
That still exists?
And the rest of the world? We’re paying for Trump too…
As an American, I voted blue and we got an orange piece of shit. For every dime and nickel the American people are swindled, our friends overseas are also getting fucked by our tax dollars. Please boycott USA.
It was something around 1.9€/liter yesterday for both petrol and diesel fuel, which is equivalent to a bit over 8 dollars per gallon. And my country has lower excise tax on fuel than some others where the prices currently are about 50% higher I believe.
The only consolation is that this will hopefully reduce the world’s dependency on oil and gas.
Company started forcing remote people into the office, and when pointing out how much extra strain it causes from all the shit happening in the world was told well at least you aren’t paid off
We did a company-wide feedback poll and this was a top issue. Management brushed it off and said “Deal with it”
What’s better is when the boss is happy to throw money at dumb things (like redoing office cubes continuously, buying new hardware for said cubes, burning most expensive workers time like it’s nothing) and bragging about all the money we have except when it comes to you know keeping talent.
It came up on a leadership meeting at my company. As soon as the question came up, the CEO’s face pinched up into a pissy snarl. He then threatened us with coming in five days instead of four.
What a miserable old cockstain.
When it’s not working, it’s working.
We’ve probably spent a lot more on the stupid war itself.
“probably”
Separately yes, with the cost of just military operations, and then the long lasting side effects of this whole diversion.
But domestic spending to help citizens is too expensive.
And they’d vote for him again if they could…
where’s the vote for him to [content that would be me on another set of lists]
I would love to know what percentage of American gas came from Iran. Did we just give gas companies a windfall in revenue when absolutely nothing changed for their production?
I decided to search myself. Apparently, due to sanctions, there’s been no Iranian oil sold in the US for almost three decades. So… You’re welcome oil companies.
there’s been no Iranian oil officially sold in the US for almost three decades.
Fixed it for you. There’s no way none of Trump’s planet-destroying profiteer friends are getting special dispensations below or even above the table.
Look up a youtube channel called Mr. Global. He used to work some huge oil companies for decades, and ran his own for a bit. He breaks down a ton of this stuff.
For one, Iran is blocking a major shipping route for Iraq, Kuwuit, and Saudi Arabia. Even though we don’t import that much from there, the rest of the world does, and so supply is down, but demand remained the same. For two, the US oil companies are making record oil exports to these other countries that used to get their supply from the middle east.
apply windfall profits currently enjoyed by fossil fuel companies to cover the shortfall the GOP claims to need to continue their war against Iran
Record profits I bet
This is not relatable to me. Tell me how much the average American has spent on gas since Iran started relative to before Iran.
…but why do Americans care about that?
… and still no mass strike in sight.
One way or another you will lose your comforts.
