“DID YOU EVEN SAY THANK YOU?”
“You should be grateful that the president hasn’t launched any nukes yet.”
YOU HAVEN’T EVEN SAID THANK YOU
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…
Translation: “we’ve almost exhausted the strategic oil reserves. Get ready for gas to triple.”
Technically, paying 3X for gas should raise GDP.
“You ain’t seen nothing yet!”
Sounds like youre owed some fuck around
Who do I contact to rectify this debt
Thats the beauty of it. Its your fuck around, you already found out.
Man, idek how to fuck around at this point. I’m doing way too much finding out lately.
The alternative, Vance said, was accepting that “the Iranians were going to shoot at ships like crazy people.”
Vance, the Trump administration was shooting at Cuban boats to score political points less than a year ago.
The Trump regime continues to randomly blast ships out of the water half a world away with no care for who’s onboard
Iran is shooting at ships in its waters
Double-tapping survivors. They were fishing boats, but even if they had been gun runners, that’s a war crime. Textbook definition.
Can’t be a crime if you get rid of the courts!
As I understand it, that’s still happening.
I’ll be grateful when he puts a gun in his mouth.
Halfway there
Livin on a prayer
doubt the grim reaper can killhimself,. he has people to reap
I hope he snags his dick in a zipper next time he fucks a couch.
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
JD Vance should be grateful we just want him out of office.
Some of us have gotten past that.
For now.
“You should be happy we haven’t fucked you over even more!”
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.
This isn’t even exaggerating, he literally already had a variant of this conversation with Zelensky.
Everyone deserves to live, as long as they don’t intentionally cause harm for the love of power/greed.
Supreme leader JD Zedong has spoken.
He claimed that if the U.S. left the Persian Gulf, there would be “no guaranteed access to oil and gas” and that the U.S.’s Gulf Arab allies say “that would be the worst thing in the world.”
You had no reason to be there in the first place, tho
U.S.’s Gulf Arab allies say “that would be the worst thing in the world.”
Yes because they are right there. America, on the other hand, is very far away from that area. Not that we should abandon allies, but we should approach the situation with all of the context in mind and afford it the response that aligns best with our country’s interests.
Meanwhile, our biggest allies in Europe have been moving away from oil, since they used to get tons of it from Russia.
They somehow learned that it’s not great to rely heavily on a resource that needs to be imported from dodgy areas of the world. It’s weird that America can’t seem to understand that very simple lesson.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves”
