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[–] 88 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Texas is running out of diesel? That Texas?

Yikes.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Who knew had "Gas Shortage" on their "October Surprise" bingo card? We're gonna party like it's 1979!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Diesel shortage not gas shortage.

    I'm no expert on the oil industry, but something about how american refineries handle domestic crude results in them producing far less diesel than normal. Diesel is being hit hardest by these price increases.

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

    This is excellent. I'm hoping most of the magats rip themselves apart trying to high beam balance their life choices with the reality of the consequences.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    Their phantasm that they look at reality through lets them ignore it. Market freefall or gas droughts can be the fault of Hunter Biden or something, hence becoming Maga isn't a thing somebody who can reflect on consequences does. (Don't believe people like MGT or Milo Yeonopowatever. Their victim act is part of an exit strategy you will see a lot more republicans using as time goes on)

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    I saw one today where there was no price at all for diesel. Figured it was just a sign glitch or something, as other places have some, but maybe not if their supplier is low.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    A few scattered places in California have diesel prices that are higher than $10/gal, so the sign cant show the price correctly

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    i remember when gas stations had to fabricate a "1" to put in front when prices first went over $1 per gallon because their price signs didn't have a 'dollars' digit.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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    It really does infuriate me seeing them bitch about incredibly low fuel costs.

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  • If it makes you feel any better, it's not like poor Americans are doing much better because of the lower sticker price. Federal minimum wage is (still...) $7.25/hr, less for some tipped jobs, and a lot of people with those jobs have a significant commute. It's the same system where the working class is squeezed to the breaking point in the service of shareholder value, just with slightly different minimums for different things.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    Also apparently bunker oil for shipping is now in short supply. Due to it being less profitable. So that going to hit all kinds of international trade pretty hard. It's a bit of a slow motion crash.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What did Biden mean by this?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago

    That's because TEXAS is SOCIALIST! ONLY Socialists run Out Of Gas!

    -Republicans but LITERALLY!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "So whatever outrageous price they were charging wasn't high enough to truly reflect market conditions," a free market stan might say. Might even have a point.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Or one might say "the catastrophic war in the middle east, the one waged specifically to drive down global supply to make the pillaging of Venezuela even more profitable, shows no sign of stopping any time soon so if oil companies hold on to their current inventory they might be able to profit from it even more in a few weeks / months as the crisis deepens".

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago*

    Took this today in Washington state. Not out of diesel yet, but it’ll cost ya

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

    Why do they write "credit" over the gas price? Do they have different prices for cash? And what's a debit card? Is it considered cash? Or credit?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    My limited understanding-

    Companies have to pay a fee when someone makes a purchase with a credit card, so gas is generally slightly more expensive with credit card transactions vs cash (and maybe debit?).

    If you pay with a debit card, you're not borrowing money, so I guess it's closer to cash than it is to credit. In my area, they don't let you buy lottery tickets with credit cards but you can buy them with debit cards, which I suppose is a good thing. Not sure how gas prices are affected when you pay with debit.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    almost half expected it to keep the 9/10 in the last column regardless of what was in the first 3 columns

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Fuckin Biden again lmao

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Alright, brace yourselves everyone. This is going to be like that time that I chose the first rollercoaster to ever ride was the one that drops you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    This is funny because Scrump and his little Scrumplings are in Ireland this week. Having left the mighty USofA on Friday,the anniversary of the supposedly most horrific day in modern American history.... Anyway....

    His biggest little scrumpling Eric was on the radio talking about how much gas and oil the US produces and how well off ye all are there....Better than any other time in history.

    He was really convincing (if you have no brain) and so proud of what his family have achieved- also pointedly NOT ruling out himself running for president in the future. Then they all went to play golf and Irish people were arrested for protesting it. I hate them. DTA

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks to Obama and the Demoncrats. /S

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    My Costco in northern Japan yesterday: regular gasoline: 145 JPY (0.8137 EUR) / litre. Diesel: 135 (0.7575).

    Non-costco regular gasoline has gone as high as 169 JPY (~ 0.95 EUR) recently.

    I'm pretty sure the government has price caps and subsidizes things. Out here in the deep countryside, there's no practical choice aside from driving.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    That hasn't happened around here, and I haven't seen any places out of diesel. Then again, I haven't been looking at places like Valero.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Park those piece of shit F350s you only get groceries with boys. Rolling coal is off the table.

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