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[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

While the cost will be felt during the next administration. They make all decisions and legislation timed just to screw whoever the pendulum lands with so they can blame what they cause every single time.

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[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

I'm not sure there will be another administration, at least not in the normal, orderly way....

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Just keep burning down the future for the present. One of these days it will finally catch up to you miserable fucks, and we will all pay the price together...

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

The US is the largest oil producer in the world, how can't not have enough for itself? But if that will always be the case, then why did the US never invest in alternative modes of transportation and in EVs and charging infrastructure?

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The thing is that you have different grades of oil, and US refineries aren't actually geared towards the type of oil the US produces.

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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The thing is that you have different grades of oil

This I knew.

and US refineries aren’t actually geared towards the type of oil the US produces.

This I didn't know and doesn't make sense to me why it would be the case. I expected US refineries to be optimized for US crudes. "Drill baby drill" has been the rallying cry for the Republican Party for nearly two decades now. At no point did I ever hear them say "Refine baby refine" though.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 5 points 2 months ago

mainly cause they've been running a global empire and it didn't matter where the inputs came from, everything is optimized for profit rather than resilience

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[–] kibblebits 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My bet is winter gas shortage and triple prices.

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[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

No we will just use the spring gas then

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[–] kibblebits 4 points 2 months ago

Or invade someone.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Its literally this.

Trump and his cronies wanna keep gas prices where they are until just after the midterms.

That way when all the Dems win, they'll turn around and blame the Dems. They're gonna claim the mere election of Dems is bad for the economy and their dipshit base will eat it up. Tell everyone you know.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Doing all they can to treat the symptom without touching the disease.

[–] booscience@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah but you can say Christmas gasoline in August now, so the terrorists, I mean communists don’t win.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Paper over the economic fuck-ups and cause worse emissions? That's a win-win for the MAGA petro-death-cultists!