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[–] 115 points 6 months ago (15 children)

Sad thing is he absolutely did do that. Unlike Biden who was blamed for the chaos that came from the pandemic.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

    Well, Biden did blow up a pipe line that supplied Russian gas to Europe. He also did nothing to improve the horrible situation in Venezuela that Trump started. He actually just doubled down on it.

    Not on the level of what Trump has done. But every US president is consistently working to ensure US oligarchs have control of the oil supply. And that doesn't always mean literally stealing oil. It's more about control.

    Sometimes that brings domestic gas prices down. Sometimes it makes them go up. Sometimes that means blowing up pipelines. Sometimes that means kidnapping a countries elected leader.

    The president WANTS domestic gas prices to be low. It helps their approval ratings and party elections. But, the president is subject to the wishes of the oil and war oligarchs. And they are fucking thirsty right now.

    Edit: I've broken through with a positive upvote (for now) making a comment about Democrats and Bidens failures to combat Trump. I have faith in you Lemmy.

    Edit2: Had to brag. Reminded people to downvote.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    The price spike under Biden was more the orange kid-diddler's doing. Threatening to without military funding for Saudi Arabi unless they cut down on oil output during COVID. Which when supply chains were firing back up under Biden they had t ramped production back up yet. Biden got blamed for some he had nothing to do with. Aka the repugnican method.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Bidens biggest failures were not undoing a lot of the things Trump did in his first term.

    I think it was a false belief in that the US should remain consistent and not back peddle on bad policies. So, instead of working with Iran to restore the JCPoA (that they continued to abide by via the UN) he continued to push sanctions. Similar situation with Venezuela. Hell, he even kept a lot of Trump's awful border policy. He absolutely failed in restoring faith in America, on the world stage, after Trump's first term. He needed to push hard in the opposite direction and have actual material changes that Trump (or any Republican) could not undo again.

    Now, one could say this is because they didn't think they would lose again to Trump. But, that, in itself, was also a major failure for Biden/Harris. They had no major material improvements to point to as an achievement.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    His biggest failure was not arresting and putting Trump in prison~___~

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    I do believe they honestly tried, but the damage done was not something which could easily be solved in a weekend. I even said in arguments that most of his first term would be trying to repair the US's reputation on the world stage which he did make strides at. But as for passing anything, Moscow mitch even openly said that they'd fight against everything they could just to make Biden look like he wasn't capable of new laws or policy.

    The first things Biden had on his plate when he took office were dealing with COVID to get the country and economy running again, fallout from the January 6th insurrection, and the time bomb of the military withdraw from Afghanistan.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Tbh Biden did set himself up for trouble on gas prices specifically. He had that make Saudi Arabia a pariah initiative he was giving speeches on when he first got elected, it was going OK while the US held the cards… but after the Ukraine war started and the supply was reduced, gas prices became a giant glowing weak spot that the Saudis could vengefully mash just in time for mid-terms. Biden recognized the danger then and visited hat in hand to ask for forgiveness and more production, but it was too late after making very public positions and statements that the Saudis REALLY didn’t like at all so the trip didn’t amount to much other than embarassing news articles about him crawling back to the guy he had been calling a murderer.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    *war in Ukraine

    Edit: You people are insane with these downvotes. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Look at a graph of gas prices and see what happened right after that. The war in Ukraine was directly responsible for the gas price spike in 2022

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Both, supply issues causes by economy restarting from covid as well as was in Ukraine that putin started.

    Ironically that also supposed to be very quick as the one with Iran.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    The sudden spike in prices that immediately followed Russia invading Ukraine had almost nothing to do with the economy

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I didn't down vote you but, want to address your edit. You are absolutely right that war in Ukraine contributed to the price. And you are right that this spike had not much to do with the economy, but keep in mind that the restrictions were lifted I think in February as well pretty much simultaneously in all countries.

    During restrictions people traveled less, so the demand for oil was lower, so in 2020 oil fields reduced output.

    Now restrictions were lifted so demand increased, sanctions on Russia were imposed so demand on Persian Gulf also increased.

    It takes few months to restart production from oil wells that were shut down, and then there's also few weeks delay as the tankers are transporting the oil.

    I think both contributed to the spike.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Do you have a source on Feb '22 being some kind of turning point regarding covid restrictions? Having lived through COVID as a healthcare worker, I recall the timeline pretty acutely, and my memory is lockdowns were almost universally over by summer '20, the first vaccines were administered on a large scale in December '20, and activity increased progressively throughout 2021.

    Meanwhile, the gas price spike occurred immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine, and concerns about oil supplies were plastered all over the financial news of the day

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/19/us/covid-mandates-vaccine-indoor-dining/

    I remember, because all the conspiracy nuts were using it as an example that restrictions were bogus ("see? Covid was fake, as soon as we started they lifted all restrictions")

    I think many people also forgot truckers in Canada blocking border transit demanding lifting restrictions. It was fun because when it started Canada already announced the date their restrictions will be lifted.

    Frankly that whole thing smelled like Russian psyop (not only it started right before invasion, about restrictive that already were planned to be lifted, but also it's goal was to disrupt important supply chain and even tried to cause unrest (when someone tried to start a fire that could burn alive some residents as the person also locked exits)

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 73 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Hey me too! SoCal for those curious about the price.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's Joe Barack Hussein Biden's fault.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I found one about a month ago, in New Mexico.

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    [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I wish my gas was only a dollar more per gallon

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Today in eastern MA. Up up up we go…..

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (28 children)

    I bought a 100 of these putting up at every gas station I go to.

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  • [+] -58 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    "Oh damn, gas prices went up so filling a tank went up $10..... I know! I'll blow $100 on useless stickers and still complain about the $10!"

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  • [+] -87 points 6 months ago (19 children)

    Good job vandalizing the gas station of someone that just trying to run a business and has to clean up after your safe rebellion. You’re really sticking it to the man there.

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  • [–] 76 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    thanks. extra stickers for the gas stations that play ads

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I saw someone used duct tape on the little vent that houses the speakers on one of these. It actually almost completely blocked out the sound. Whoever did that fucks

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Sound? The video is bad enough.

    I would use fucking fire.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    They could just leave it there as it's not hurting their business and is also true.

    And remember, property destruction as a form of protest has a long a storied history that generally works far more effectively than marches or rallies and is part of the escalation of the protest process if The People are ignored. It gets far worse so they should take it seriously and listen/act on the concerns of the protestors. They wouldn't like what comes next.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You say that shit when the Biden stickers were fuckin everywhere?

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    $3.99 for E0 gas is a fucking steal. Normally you pay more for E0, this is below the country average right now.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The E0 is the one that was removed. It's only an option for the 91.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    3.99 is cheap. It’s $4.20 where I’m at which is still cheap compared to much of the country

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    $3.99 USD per gallon is about $1.43 CAD per litre. I weep, lol. I'm paying $1.96 CAD per litre (about $5.41 USD per gallon). I'm in Alberta, we grow it here. That's relatively cheap compared to some other provinces 😭

    Edit: Don't take those numbers as gospel. I'm scrolling on the can, so it may not be my best math.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    4.99ish where I am, for the last week or so.

    I wouldn't call it lucking out but a couple weeks ago I was hitting the store midday and saw 1 station had jumped to $4.29. a couple blocks later I saw 2 stations still had it at 3.89 so I immediately filled up. Within a couple days it had already jumped to somewhere around 4.50 and days later it's at 4.99.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Huh, how does the octane rating work in the US?

    Common octane ratings in NZ are 91, 95, & 98.

    I'm guessing that there are different ways to calculate the rating, rather than the actual fuel being that different.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    In Canada, The United States, and Mexico, the advertised octane rating is the average of the RON and the MON, called the Anti-Knock Index (AKI). It is often written on pumps as (R+M)/2. AKI is also sometimes called PON (Pump Octane Number).

    Because of the 8 to 12 octane number difference between RON and MON noted above, the AKI shown in Canada and the United States is 4 to 6 octane numbers lower than elsewhere in the world for the same fuel.

    There's a table in the wiki article that shows the equivalence of different systems

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    We all knew the type of degenerate losers who put up the Biden "I did that stickers" were just partisan hacks who would (and largely do not) feel the same way now that Trump actually has directly impacted fuel prices. That was always part of the reason people rolled their eyes every time we saw one.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Trump is probably going to be the greatest thing that happened for the zero carz dragment!

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Gas Price per Gallon atm in Austria: 8 Dollar

    Befor this Bullshit it was at around 4,50 Dollar

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Currently about 605 yen ($3.90 USD) in (rural) Japan. That only seems cheap in dollars because the yen has tanked in the past few years. 5 years ago when there were somewhat similar gas prices it would've been about $5.75

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    So you can't compare it before and after the Trump-israel-Iran War (i called like this cause i noticed the USA dosn't wanted this war at all) cause your currency value changed that much?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I stuck one on a gas station in Texas today. Gas was over $4 a gallon.

    It feels good to travel through red states and shit on their orange god.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Joke's on you - I can only use Premium.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I'm so happy my shitbox takes regular 87

    Unfortunately the cheapest I ccould find yesterday was $5.15 per gallon (they limit you to 10 gallons). Most of them around me are $5.50+ with 2 being well over $6 per gallon ($6.19 and $6.29).

    Those are for regular, I haven't even checked premium prices locally.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    rarely the president has as much responsibility for the gas prices

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Also rare for the president to be a convicted felon. Yet this monster found a way.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Probably less rare for them to be a rapist and pedophile but he's definitely the most publicized at it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    You’re right, I think we've finally surpassed Thomas Jefferson at this point, though I suspect TJ’s rape and pedophilia are still mostly danced around when people talk about Sally Hemings (who was 14-16 years old and a peer to his daughter when it began, while Jefferson was in his mid forties).

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