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Three-Time Trump Voter Goes Off About Gas Prices and ‘Worthless Pile of Sh*t’ Trump: ‘Apparently, I’m An Idiot!’ (www.mediaite.com)
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Gas prices are symbolic of much more than just the price of gas. It's the one item that people have to buy multiple times a week, so they automatically keep track of the price, since it is such an integral part of their life. The price is also displayed on big lighted signs all along every roadway. What other consumer item has that much broad public awareness? With that much awareness, gas prices begin to become symbolic for prices in general. When gas prices go up, people instinctually feel like EVERYTHING is going up.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (4 children)

    Who the fuck buys gas multiple times a week??

    I buy gas about once a month, maybe twice if I go on a trip.

    I’d be happiest if gas was $10/gal or more, maybe it would rip this fucking driving fetish out of some folks minds.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If you drive every day, you're probably going to buy gas at least twice a week, especially if you don't like being too low. Plus, traffic is terrible where I live, and you burn a LOT of gas just sitting.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Most vehicles have a fuel tank capacity to give about 300-400 miles range.

    Who is driving 600-800 miles every week? That is insane.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It's common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.

    I live at the southern tip of my population area. It's 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.

    If you own a home, and you get a new job that's in the same region, but even farther away, you don't buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.

    Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that's why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.

    And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.

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