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What if we all grouped up, and then decided to clean him and his cronies out of the government?
Too sensible?
BUT DANCING WITH THE STARS IS ON LATER AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!!!!!!
If its any consolation, Germans would be ecstatic about 5$/gal (equivalent to 1.13€/L), because they're currently paying around twice that.
Literally been paying almost $7/gallon since the pandemic. America is just now feeling a fraction of European/Scandinavian prices since years back and freaking out. 😅
So happy to have switched to electric a year back. Paying between a dime and a quarter per kWh right now and living my life.
Americans are whining because they've allowed car companies to put out massive trucks that get... 6 kilometers per liter of petrol? And haven't invested in public transit. And have been allowing for the construction of massive datacenters that, despite burning fossil fuels for most of their power, and also still drianing the power grids and making EV charging more expensive (not that any of these people have enough saved to buy an EV anyway). And the complainers are all a minority of "rural" voters who don't live in cities, and can't easily get to a grocery store, a pharmacy, or work without driving 30km there and 30km back. At least.
So yeah, when a daily commute is 10 liters, and most americans who have had a cold in the past 5 years are in medical debt now, going from 50€ per paycheck to 100€ per paycheck every 2 weeks on petrol spend is hefty, especially given how the US federal minimum wage is a little over 6€/hour, and that's if the person still has a job at all, given the layoffs all over the place. Even if people are making 10€/hour on their commute job, gas price increases have just eatten an additional 5 hours of their labor every 2 weeks. If they go up any more, the Iran War's ramifications will approach a 10% pay cut for the "average" American. (And this doean't even account for the tax money being spent on the war, nor on whatever the outcome of the US debt exceeding its GDP will be, probably for the next generation).
Would those Americans have been better off buying fuel efficient cars, finding remote work to not have to drive so much, living closer to cities to benefit from public transit? Probably. But it's a lot late to try to make those shifts for these people.
When american politics claims that no one has been listening to "middle America," this is who they mean: the voters who are gullible enough to be oversold on "American Dream" and end up living paycheck to paycheck with no safety net.
The problem is that there is no helping them, so no one really tries. And the far right loves this, because it's easy to give those people false hope, underdeliver, and then blame it on the left.
So alas, no, it isn't any consolation that other countries are feeling this pain--that makes the situation feel more hopeless, rather than less.
Would those Americans have been better off buying fuel efficient cars, finding remote work to not have to drive so much, living closer to cities to benefit from public transit? Probably. But it's a lot late to try to make those shifts for these people.
I drive a fuel efficient car, have tried living in the city (extremely nice but unfortunately more expensive not less) would kill for public transit. Instead I live an hour away and pay 60% income for rent and 35% for car, I don't think I'm alone. One time I knew one neighbor, this is somewhat strange in America, if I want to go somewhere I either have to pay or maybe just walk around the same store I've done hundreds of times, I could go for a walk around a park but I would have to drive there, chances of getting harassed simply walking around are around 50% and that skyrockets to around 80% if you're doing it anywhere you're not "supposed to" like say your own neighborhood.
Statesian here. I'd gladly pay double a gallon for gas to have a German public transit system. They're right, we're comparing apples and Daves when we compare between countries.
In czech we have 50% of german salary, and our gas is 1.77€/l :)
Probably drive a quarter or less though right?
5? Prices are almost at $7 in some places
I know it's what you get used to but that sounds still absurdly low when compared to your [country's] median disposable income. I assume the UK the real cost is twice that.
Oh I'm sure. But you have to remember what the USA is, in terms of how to l capitalist it is and it all adds up. Plus, destabilizing a "stable" country by doubling such a fundamental cost as fuel as an indicator is so much more.
Putting it like the USA is whining and playing trauma Olympics on a global scale ain't great, either. All that does is play into normalization of some pretty fucked up stuff that we should actually be more unified against and have solidarity around everything that's happening right now.
Gas prices are bad, yeah, but the deeper discussion around it isn't simple at all, and gas prices themselves aren't really the big issue.
p3do sounds like a Star Wars character.
P3do, stop redacting the Epstein files and shut down all trash compactors on detention level!
It’s extra funny because Tony Soprano was a Republican
and like also because of all the oil industry subsidies with your tax dollars
Damn, too bad they don't do anything. They should be ashamed.
oil kickbacks for keeping prices high while protecting company ships. 🛥️
Far from the main reason imperialism is a much larger reason.
On a systemic level yes, but this war seems to have been Trump's idea (as in Netanyahu's idea that Trump accepted). Even without Trump America would be doing a lot of evil and stupid stuff, but it's not likely provoking Iran into closing one of the lifelines of the global economy would be one of them.
*points at the gas tank*
Ayy there's a lotta money in this Tone