$6 or $7 per gallon is a small price to pay to defend democracy....

Spoken like a true elitist who thinks because he can afford it the rest of the country can too....


Why do you hate the poor people so much?

 

1. Inflation outpaces wage gains.

2. Labor participation rate is lower than in 2019.

3. We may be going into a recession, especially due to the skyrocketing price of gas.

All three of those facts completely undermines your argument about how great the economy is and how we can afford this skyrocketing surge in gas prices. And, as always, it's the working-class American that is getting the worst of it. As Duke University Professor Campbell Harvey noted, "It doesn’t matter if the price of gas is $5 or $50 for (Bill) Gates or (Jeff) Bezos, but for most of us, it’s a big deal."

Golem, thank you for posting this. I hope many voters see your post, as your post represents the absolute lack of empathy by Democrats for those suffering under the Biden administration. Americans need to wake up and stop voting Democrat.

 

For the family who has to choose between gasoline to get too and from work and groceries or needed maintenance drugs the pain is far from minor.

 

Accusing others of elitism is an old bolshevik talking point.

 

Liberal OPM…. I think they should just send an extra $50 a week out of their own checks to uncle crime boss joe if they really feel the way they do about you or me and our paychecks …

 

So what do you propose to lessen the pain? Should we ignore Ukraine?

 

The diminishing returns of some Democrats' lies

"Forced into a state of panic by a series of cataclysmic polls, the Democrat Party has entered a new phase in its attempt to turn around its waning fortunes: lying directly — and unashamedly — to your face. To paraphrase Elena Gorokhova, “You know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know you know they are lying, you know they know you know they are lying, but they are still lying.”"

Nobody believes that $7/g gas is "supporting Democracy in Ukraine."

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Their overuse of lying is reducing it's effectiveness like their irresponsible "stimulus" policies have eroded purchasing power.

 

Drill baby drill greater supply equals lower prices.

 

So your problem is with the oil companies that are not drilling?

 

You don't drill where there is no oil and having a lease is not the same as having a permit to drill.

 

2500 permits were issue in the first half of 2021. How many more are necessary? The permits are in place - why aren't drilling levels what you think they should be?

 

Some have suggested that Republicans have laid a trap that Biden fell into. Higher pump prices help Republicans politically.

BTW, our European allies are not willing to bear the cost of boycotting Russian energy. Why should we?

 

No doubt Republicans are very happy about high gas prices, but how do you think they managed to hike the rates?

Maybe because it would cost them so much more, because they imported much more from Russia than us.

I hope they learn their lesson.

 

Do you also think everyone can afford all this 6 or 7$ gas when so many people are one paycheck away from eviction?

Don't you think that's a little out of touch with the realities of many people?

That's not a Bolshevik talking point it's an actual reality.

Do you think poor people struggling to pay the rent really won't feel any sting off of that?

I'm sure telling them don't worry we're "defending democracy" will make them feel 100% better when they're broke!

 

Lets just be happy people can still afford three $15.00. beers at the ball park and $1000 cell phones.

Average price of gas is $4.22, not $6 to $7, and yes, people can afford to fill up their tanks.

I never heard so much whining in my life. Pull yourselves together folks. Its amazing how spoiled people have become. At least the boleheviks had valid complaints, but this is ridiculous.

First their shriek about how US won't ban Russian oil, and when Russian oil is banned, they shriek about price of gas. Sheesh.

A political trap you say? Yes, of course all the whining is political.

 

So the wannabe elitists can't see the reality that many poor people are one paycheck away from eviction.

They're completely out of touch with reality of the average American.

Oh yeah everyone wants to pay seven damn dollars a gallon....

What a completely myopic and blind inability to see reality

 

No it is in fact TOO high a price to pay.

It is not the same as any time in the past. What putin is doing is wrong but the Ukraine is not worth any forced sacrifice on our part

 

Enough with the Marxist talking points!

Who do you blame for being one paycheck away from eviction? Price of gas didn't do that. The bolsheviks blamed the "elites" and you are doing the same.

Did you demand the ban on Russian oil, because you needed something to shriek about? Earlier you called it a "Republican trap".

Should we start importing oil from Russia again?

 

So are you going to sit here and tell me that many Americans are not living one paycheck away from eviction? Are you that disconnected from reality or is pushing your agenda here more important and actually appearing to be able to perceive what's real?

And I think you're clearly confusing me with another poster I never called anything a republican trap. Please get your facts straight before you go running off

 

I think boycotting Russian energy is good. We should not be feeding their economy

 

We are MORE "energy independent" (if you mean that we export more oil than we import) today than we were in those years.

 

None of those statements undermines the fact that our economy is doing well or that more people can now afford higher gas prices than in many years before this.

You are just blathering unrelated talking points.

 

I guess to those who prefer dictatorships, any price is too high.

 

Sacrifice? Id hope most learned by now to cut gasoline consumption to a minimum, and invest in oil futures by now. I mean seriously...Why not?

Dont be like this guy.