• adarza@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        export where they can make even more profits… then raise the price back here at home because of ‘‘shortages’’.

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          Well, there are shortages.

          The GP’s point is just that the US as a whole decided to pull it home instead of keeping their diesel and letting other people suffer it.

          That made some rich people richer.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, on quick glance one might not notice the joke here, thus reinforcing the existing evil symbolism.

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    Really odd thing about that. Back in the COVID times when Biden was president, those “I did that” stickers were plastered all over the place. Not just in my town, but everywhere I traveled. They were on gas pumps, on grocery store price tags, on the back of signs, and even on completely random shit.

    Now that it’s Trump literally causing the problem and making it worse … I’ve not seen a single sticker in person. Certainly not like it was several years ago where they were on at least one pump at practically every gas station. Odd indeed.

    Suppose if they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

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    Just wait for the actual Trump 2028 posters to be out, and go at them with a whiteout pen.

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    Americans having the cheapest fuel in the first world, and still being crippled by the cost says a lot, I think, but I don’t know how quite to express it. Res ipsa loquitur.

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      I think that the cost of fuel is a larger percentage of the average Joe’s budget. They drive more often, longer and consume more per mile.

      Lots of things are cheaper in USA but they also have other costs which are a lot more expensive than elsewhere. Health insurance for instance.

      I live somewhere where gas prices are much higher, but it’s still a smaller percentage of my budget. Also, the reason why our gas price is higher is that it’s heavily taxed by volume, so when the wholesale price changes, it only affects the consumer price in a smaller percentage of the total.

      All together, this means that Americans are more affected by the fluctuations of gas prices, even if they get it cheaper.

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        That makes sense, my comment was originally going to be something along the lines of a lack of foreplanning, or sustainable development, but I felt unequipped to comment on in in any depth given I have no experience. I feel like the factors you mentioned could have been avoided, if the United States served the best interests of it’s people.

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      You don’t, where I’m at in Canada we had our Gass prices rise little in comparison.

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    I still think it would be funny to make stickers where Trump is pointing and include text that says “Well, I did THAT” as a kind of play on his obsession with doing things better than Biden. Bonus if you can post the sticker next to a faded out Biden one.