Gas Prices Are Your Fault

@porwest Those are all facts the left conveniently leaves out of the conversation. Either that, or they’re so ignorant they don’t realize the truth.

It is sort of like the electric car movement from an environmental impact perspective. Ask a liberal where the electricity comes from and they will tell from an outlet on the wall. In the broader scheme of course we know we have to burn natural gas, or coal, or use nuclear energy to produce the electricity. What we also know is that the current power grid cannot handle the capacity if we are 30% electric in ten years, so we HAVE to build more power plants. Something the left opposes. On top of that we know that hydro power is insufficient to increase capacity because bodies of water are only available in certain places. We also know that wind and solar are largely not a viable alternative either. What's more, people tend to forget about all of the materials that go into building the batteries and where THEY come from. Large areas of land must be mined and ultimately destroyed in order to extract the materials needed to make the batteries. On top of THAT the life span of the batteries is relatively short, and when we need to dispose of them, most of them will be buried and that will require more land and more damage to aquifers, and wildlife. It's just more lack of critical thinking by the left. As for oil in general, we got most of it from fracking (little to no profile environmental impact) and shale (again little or no environmental impact), AND because the pipe line will not be able to cleanly deliver the oil to the refineries, it will of course have to be trucked burning millions of gallons of air polluting diesel fuel. But who am I to bring any common sense to the matter? lol

@moffittjc I think it is the latter, and the fact that the left really doesn't have a position on anything, which is why they go back and forth as much as they do.

Biden's fault, I say.

Everything the United States does affects the rest of the world.

@TheHorse I would agree. And I wish my answer was different. I actually do want the country to be safe and prosperous and successful. We will not get there with Biden. Just the facts.

@porwest Right

lol. You are saving a ton of money on gas then... Well. Not really. The cost of your eggs, bread, and milk include the cost of the fuel to get it to the stores. So, even if indirectly, you are still paying for it. We all are.

@RebeccasFarm It's just like the idea of taxing the rich. They never pay the taxes. We do. Because they just pass them along. But you just can't get people to understand that reality. Oh well. lol

@porwest i would never vote for trump if i did vote, lmao.

@Courtlynn Then you ARE responsible. lol. Because Trump's policy was highly effective and worked and Biden's proposed policies could never work, and the fact that you would vote against successful policy for unsuccessful policy just because you don't like the guy means only one thing... You are part of the problem. You'd rather let the country fall apart than make a sensible decision for the good of the rest of the people who have to live with who's running the place. If you were on a fire department you would be terrifying. "Why ma'am did you not put the fire out?" "Because I thought the house was ugly." Terrifying and dangerous. Just my two cents.

lol. Fair enough. lol But in a way you could still be held accountable. Not saying you would have voted for Trump, but had you, it would have been one more vote against Biden. Not that it would have mattered. Biden stole it anyway.

Yeah, and one year ago is was less than $2. What is your point?

@porwest oh just that it seems to have stopped (or paused) increasing

@NJChicaa Prices are still increasing weekly here in Florida, at least in the area I live. Not astronomical jumps, but increasing nonetheless.

I could write three hundred posts. And I just might. One by one. lol

@porwest

@porwest Yes I agree. While the price of gas is low, the price of other commodities have increased.

I am not sure subsidizing really helps much in the end, because ultimately governments do not generate revenue. They collect money from the citizens to fund all of their projects and operations. So at the end of the day regardless of whether the price is paid at the pump, everyone is paying for it regardless.

@Nawsheen Partly due to the cost of fuel to transport them. But that's but one factor.

Thank you. Even though I did leave a lot out. lol

@porwest I think I do the same. But using common sense, not to mention empirical research, can alienate you from those who are entrenched in their views.

Well, I would agree that the statement is MOSTLY true. However, I base my remarks on the facts behind the policies that affected one or the other. Clearly Trump's policies opened up oil in America and it drove prices down, and clearly Biden's policies reversed this and drove prices up. Look, I have always said, I may be republican. But I am FAIR. If Biden gets something right I will say so just like I said so when Trump got something wrong. I don't think bias nor party affiliation have a place in doing what's right, nor in acknowledging when things are not being done right. I think sometimes we get too lost in that, and it harms the country when we do. Call things for what they ARE. Not for what we want them to be.

@TheHorse But the sad fact is that the left doesn't have any views. They really don't. And that's part of the problem I have with them. Not that long ago EVERYONE on the left called for walls and border control and stopping illegal immigration. And in fact it was the RIGHT who largely said ":Let them in, it's good for the economy." Until TRUMP said it and then the left changed their mind. Because they never really felt anything genuine on the issue to begin with. That's why it was so easy for them to change their minds. You can say the same thing about the vaccines. "My body, my choice" has been the mantra of the left on abortion for decades. Now when it comes to anyone making a choice on the vaccine? Forget your body, your choice. We just want you to get the jab and shut up about choice. The left's platform can be summed in one sentence. "Stand against anything the right is for even if we agree with it, and even if we fought vehemently for it in the past." That is what it has become.

It does not matter what you are registered as in most states. You can vote however you want. In some states you just can't vote in certain primaries for the opposing party, but you can change your registration.