Guy who doesn’t pay for his own gas doesn’t care about gas prices. More at 11.
Remember what used to happen when some out-of-touch rich person gave folks the, “Let them eat cake” speech? Yeah. Good times.
Makes these old images of Biden raising gas prices funnier to dig back up. Omg $3! When some places now are pushing $6.
Here in the Southeast, those stickers were all over the place, too! Sometimes I’d even see them inside stores, people were putting them out faster than employees could remove them. They weren’t just used at gas pumps, though that was obviously the primary placement for them.
I’ve only seen the Trump version online so far. Wonder why those same people who were putting out the Biden ones aren’t getting the Trump ones out as quickly?
I’m sure it’s not that they’re low-life partisan hypocrites. It’s probably the lingering effects of the illegal tariffs driving up the cost of the stickers at a time when they’ve lost their jobs and healthcare so they literally just can’t afford the gas or the stickers to be able to put them out. I’m sure it’s that.
I’ve already seen several of Trump at the pump
Saw one in the middle of nowhere a couple weeks back and was pleasantly shocked
So where are all the “I did that” stickers on the gas pumps with his face?
Why should he care? He doesn’t pay for gas. That’s somebody else’s problem.
Why the fuck should they! Fuckn asshole!
Yeah. The morons he had to appease already gave him a 2nd term.
Trump to the world: “Fuck you all, no one is stopping me from doing anything so I will keep getting more extreme until we find a breaking point.”
I think that the distinct overlap between abusive religion and abusive leaders is what makes the former so useful to the latter.
We’ve been doing the exact same thing for thousands of years. Nothing ever changes. And governments and religions dont learn from their mistakes or evolve.
That’s the whole purpose of religion – why it was invented in the first place.
How in touch he always seems with the common man. Just remarkable.
And so many of these “common men” still seem to really believe that no matter what he actually says or does, all that matters is that he talks like the person they imagine him to be, which they believe means he unequivocally understands and cares about them and can do no wrong. He really does love the poorly educated, and you can see why.
The reality distortion field Trump supporters seem to be trapped in is rapidly approaching the strength of a black hole. I’m not sure what happens when it all collapses and they all fall into the event horizon but I’ll certainly be glad if they can’t escape and we never have to hear from most of them ever again.
trump allowed magats- to be out and proud racists/bigots. its an analog of an awakening for closeted people.
Diesel at $5 a gallon is going to concern him a lot in a couple of months. In fact it’s going to be a very great concern for the entire Republican Party.
I’ve seen as high as $6.79/gal here in the Portland metro area. And we aren’t even the highest in the country, I can’t fathom what it’s like in California
The US is so weird when it comes to gas prices. Here in Europe 2€/l (which is over 8€/gallon) was normal for diesel even before some of the latest bullshit. $3/gallon is insane
I haven’t seen $3/gal in years, but yes, I agree, the US is so weird in so many ways. I hate this place.
It is pathetic if egoistic concern over gas prices is the thing that sours MAGA on Trump, after all the shit Trump has done.
Of course it is the only thing that will change their minds… These people can’t think further than their own wallet at this exact moment in time and maybe a few months in advance.
Sadly a lot of them will endure this shit because they can’t admit to themselves that they were wrong about Trump. They will keep thinking of ways to ease their feelings of cognitive dissonance, like “Iran was a huge danger and something needed to be done!” or “it’s good for the US since we export oil and LNG”.
If they rise, they rise. Just makes solar an even more fucking obvious choice.
110% my next car will be an EV.
That’s really funny. My electricity prices have basically tripled over the past two or three years and my use hasn’t changed.
With the push towards AI data centers that seem to have coats pushed to the average homeowner, I do not think an EV will be the most cost effective option, at least in “car” form.
Maybe an electric bike or scooter would be more cost effective
I’m going to a mostly off-grid solar system, with grid power only as an emergency backup.
I’d like to hear more about this.
Simply setting up an off-grid solar system with inverter and batteries connected to the primary side of an automatic transfer switch. With the grid power connected to the ‘reserve’ side on that automatic switch. Whenever battery power is available, the whole house will run on that, when/if the batteries run out, it will automatically switch to grid power. And automatically switch back to battery power when it’s available again.
(My power company is not very friendly toward grid-tie solar systems. So fuck 'em. I’ll go mostly off-grid and only use them for backup power.)
How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
$10/mo service charge just for being connected. Might eventually replace it with a backup generator, but for now, $10/mo is a fair bit cheaper than buying, maintaining, and refueling a generator big enough to run the whole house.
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
A) You have to apply for permission to have a grid-tie system (with $100 application fee), and that application can be arbitrarily denied if they decide they don’t want any more grid-tie houses in this area. No way to tell if they’d approve it or not; either way, they’re keeping the fee.
B) Part of that application is permits and inspection, and there’s no way my house is passing an electrical system inspection. It was originally built in 1910 and has been added onto and modified many times by many owners since. Some circuits are completely dead, absolutely none of the breakers on my four service panels are labeled … it’s a nightmare. Getting all of it up to modern electrical code would probably involve just ripping out every inch of wiring in the house and redoing it from scratch.
C) They never let me ‘sell’ solar power back. They’ll never pay me cash for it under any circumstance. They give a 1:1 ‘energy credit’ which can be applied toward future power bills and that credit arbitrarily expires and resets to zero once a year, no matter how much you’ve built up. Not a great deal.
Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.
In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month. The whole country is broken.
Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.
Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.
It’s “illegal” for public unions to strike here.
Reagan famously fired all air traffic control workers because they went on strike.
I would be impressed this is a 4D chess move to stop reliance on oil countries and adopt green tech without angrying his base. But unfortunately this is probably just an old man that is suffering dementia.
Rump couldn’t play 1d checkers, let alone 4d chess 😆. He is a bumbling clown and a coward, and all Americans should be embarrassed and ashamed.
