$7/gallon gas is coming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poorer people that don’t live in or near metro areas can only afford gas vehicles (used or existing). So this only hurts the poor. Biden and the Dems are failing their constituents. Between the war, inflation, and a retreating stock market, the Dems will be wiped out this fall.

Republicans will not solve any of those problems - war, inflation, or stocks. None. People may vote for them because they foolishly think switching Administrations will make a difference, but it won't. The Republicans have no plan to actually change any of those things for the better. Instead, these problems will ease in time, and the Republicans will take credit.

The Republicans wouldn't have cancelled the Keystone pipeline or cracked down on fracking or appoint officials who openly want to make gas as expensive as possible. Democratic policies are behind some of the rises in gas prices (and the soon to follow cost of everything else). The US was a net producer of oil and gas till Biden came into office and in just a year we've lost that status.

Snapping at people and tell them to go get electric cars doesn't help. Virtually all food and goods are transported using gas. Expect to see price of food go up in the supermarket.

And this winter most of the country is seeing record high heating costs too.

However you spin it, life has gotten much more expensive for working and everyday Americans. Under a Democratic administration.

Dp- exactly. We need conservative leadership to make our lives easier in the short term, even if it means poisoning our rivers, and ground water. Even if it means heating the planet like a pizza oven. People have desperate needs now. We can get to the other stuff later, when no one will have those needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poorer people that don’t live in or near metro areas can only afford gas vehicles (used or existing). So this only hurts the poor. Biden and the Dems are failing their constituents. Between the war, inflation, and a retreating stock market, the Dems will be wiped out this fall.

Republicans will not solve any of those problems - war, inflation, or stocks. None. People may vote for them because they foolishly think switching Administrations will make a difference, but it won't. The Republicans have no plan to actually change any of those things for the better. Instead, these problems will ease in time, and the Republicans will take credit.

The Republicans wouldn't have cancelled the Keystone pipeline or cracked down on fracking or appoint officials who openly want to make gas as expensive as possible. Democratic policies are behind some of the rises in gas prices (and the soon to follow cost of everything else). The US was a net producer of oil and gas till Biden came into office and in just a year we've lost that status.

Snapping at people and tell them to go get electric cars doesn't help. Virtually all food and goods are transported using gas. Expect to see price of food go up in the supermarket.

And this winter most of the country is seeing record high heating costs too.

However you spin it, life has gotten much more expensive for working and everyday Americans. Under a Democratic administration.

You have to understand: when Democrats dissent, it is the highest possible form of Patriotism(TM). When Republicans do it, it is the cause of all problems in the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How else are we going to get flyover country to give up their smelly trucks?

They may think twice before rolling coal.

Cause for celebration- I would like to see $10/gas. I walk and bike nearly everywhere.

Have you ever been to the midwest, pp? Have you ever visited rural America?
Do you understand that it is not possible for everyone to bike and walk everywhere?
Do you understand that the farmers that grow your food and raise your crops need fuel for their farm equipment?

You are just clueless.

So we just give farmers gas subsidies, and make the vast majority of people, who are in urban areas, use mass transit or buy a Chevy Volt($33k)

What a simplistic clueless response.
Your "solution" does nothing for the millions of rural residents who need to drive 10+ miles to the grocery store or 30+ miles to a doctor's office or hospital.
I believe some of you urban dwellers have never stepped outside a city.

Good thing the vast majority of electric cars on the market easily get 200+ miles on a single charge. That should really help the Real Americans get to their doctor or the nearest grocery store. And even rural families have electricity!

I enjoy how everyone skips over all the strip-mining that is done to get the materials for manufacturing the batteries for electrical cars. Everyone just glosses over the environmental and human cost for that.

[Anonymous]

Detroit Free Press predicts end of an era. Bye bye to the ubiquitous large SUVs and pickups.

"Gas prices are going higher, for longer than drivers have seen in a generation. Huge SUVs will be for presidents, gangsters and oligarchs."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Detroit Free Press predicts end of an era. Bye bye to the ubiquitous large SUVs and pickups.

"Gas prices are going higher, for longer than drivers have seen in a generation. Huge SUVs will be for presidents, gangsters and oligarchs."

SUVs and larger vehicles are also dangerous. They block EVERYTHING including the view of other drivers and they cause more pedestrian fatalities.

"The main problems with light trucks are their height and shape, says Jingwen Hu, an associate research professor in the biosciences group of the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute and a specialist in crash-injury biomechanics.

When a car strikes a cyclist, the initial impact causes severe lower-body trauma, but it’s also likely to sweep that person’s legs out from underneath them. This is significant, because as the rider slides up the hood, they’re scrubbing speed and, with it, some impact force. An SUV or truck, by contrast, is taller, so the initial impact is likely to target the pelvis or even the chest. “That momentum is carried through your body,” says Hu. In addition, the front-end shape of a vehicle is vital. More than 85 percent of fatalities among pedestrians and cyclists hit by cars and light trucks involve impacts from the front of the vehicle, according to 2017 data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Modern truck and full-size SUVs favor blocky, muscular styling at the front end, rather than the more gently sloping transition from grille to hood that cars and some compact SUVs have. Instead of sliding onto the hood when hit by a truck, the rider’s pelvis and torso rotate with a twisting, tearing motion. With a squared-off front end, Hu says, “it’s basically the person wrapping around the vehicle.”

"Today’s taller leading edges cause two problems. First, sight lines are worse. Testing by Consumer Reports from 2014 found that rear blind spots on full-size trucks and SUVs were twice as large as on cars. And last year, a local news station in Indianapolis showed that trucks and large SUVs have a forward blind spot—yes, in front of the hood—that’s twice as long as the blind spot on compact SUVs. Both of these make collisions more likely."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How else are we going to get flyover country to give up their smelly trucks?

They may think twice before rolling coal.

Cause for celebration- I would like to see $10/gas. I walk and bike nearly everywhere.

Yes.
I can't wait to sideline those gigantic SUVs skinny blonde women drive to 7-11 to pick up a can of diet Pepsi.
More renewables.
Electric cars.
More walking/biking.
Cleaner air.
Better health.
$20 per gallon would be even better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Joe Biden drove us off a cliff on energy.

This troll is on point -- GOP's one talking point: Blame Biden for everything, and win the midterms.

Please do not respond to this (these) GOP troll.

This is a coordinated online/conservative media campaign 100% directed at taking over Congress in November.

Blame Biden for ..... fill in the blank.... support with falsehoods...repeat ad nauseum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How else are we going to get flyover country to give up their smelly trucks?

They may think twice before rolling coal.

Cause for celebration- I would like to see $10/gas. I walk and bike nearly everywhere.

Yes.
I can't wait to sideline those gigantic SUVs skinny blonde women drive to 7-11 to pick up a can of diet Pepsi.
More renewables.
Electric cars.
More walking/biking.
Cleaner air.
Better health.
$20 per gallon would be even better.

30 dollars please. 20 is still too low

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Joe Biden drove us off a cliff on energy.

This troll is on point -- GOP's one talking point: Blame Biden for everything, and win the midterms.

Please do not respond to this (these) GOP troll.

This is a coordinated online/conservative media campaign 100% directed at taking over Congress in November.

Blame Biden for ..... fill in the blank.... support with falsehoods...repeat ad nauseum.

It’s also Biden’s fault Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden’s fault that McConnell had constipation last week, Biden’s fault that an anti-vaxxer in Texas got his Herman Cain Award last week…I mean, there’s really no end. Better than acknowledging that complex problems have many causes and Republicans are probably behind most of them…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How else are we going to get flyover country to give up their smelly trucks?

They may think twice before rolling coal.

Cause for celebration- I would like to see $10/gas. I walk and bike nearly everywhere.

Have you ever been to the midwest, pp? Have you ever visited rural America?
Do you understand that it is not possible for everyone to bike and walk everywhere?
Do you understand that the farmers that grow your food and raise your crops need fuel for their farm equipment?

You are just clueless.

So we just give farmers gas subsidies, and make the vast majority of people, who are in urban areas, use mass transit or buy a Chevy Volt($33k)

What a simplistic clueless response.
Your "solution" does nothing for the millions of rural residents who need to drive 10+ miles to the grocery store or 30+ miles to a doctor's office or hospital.
I believe some of you urban dwellers have never stepped outside a city.

Good thing the vast majority of electric cars on the market easily get 200+ miles on a single charge. That should really help the Real Americans get to their doctor or the nearest grocery store. And even rural families have electricity!

I enjoy how everyone skips over all the strip-mining that is done to get the materials for manufacturing the batteries for electrical cars. Everyone just glosses over the environmental and human cost for that.

ICE cars have batteries and an environmental effect in their production as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How else are we going to get flyover country to give up their smelly trucks?

They may think twice before rolling coal.

Cause for celebration- I would like to see $10/gas. I walk and bike nearly everywhere.

Have you ever been to the midwest, pp? Have you ever visited rural America?
Do you understand that it is not possible for everyone to bike and walk everywhere?
Do you understand that the farmers that grow your food and raise your crops need fuel for their farm equipment?

You are just clueless.

They made dumb decisions about where to live. They chose to live in the middle of nowhere, rather than in a city with access to transit options or bike usage. Their making stupid choices about where they live and being dependent on gasoline in order to get to anywhere isn’t my problem. As for farmers, same question applies - why did they pick a farm out in the middle of nowhere? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Lol.. Come on! I cant believe posts like this and the one about vertical farming meeting urban areas’ food needs are real posts. This has to be trolling I refuse to believe anyone could be this clueless. And I say this as a progressive, and an environmentally aware individual.

[Anonymous]

Good. Eff the polluting, dangerous, unstable, visibility-blocking, maneuverable-as-a-boat, elegant-as-a-brontosaurus, ridiculously oversized and overpriced pick-up trucks people call "SUVs."

I wish I could find that article from 15 years ago talking about the scorn Detroit execs uniformly felt for sucker SUV buyers.

[Anonymous]

Go ahead and raise it to $7 a gal. I can still afford it. I am all for electric cars but only if the supporting infrastructure and energy service is there. Btw. Batteries take lithium which is another finite resource. The energy from the grid comes from natural gas and fossil fuels mostly too. So we are simply trading one natural resource for others. There is only so much that can be consumed. Hopefully all the 3rd world counties stop having so many children soon.

[Anonymous]

We are not the only country in the world that will feel pain at the gas pump--in fact, we will probably feel less pain since gas is already more expensive in other parts of the world than it is here.

My hope is that the Ukraine invasion will finally push North America and Europe to make a commitment to energy independence so that we are not subject to the whims of thuggish governments such as those in Russia and Saudi Arabia.

[Anonymous]

During Bidens speech last night, WTI crossed the $100 / barrel mark. This morning it's at $108 / barrel. Releasing the strategic reserves only is enough to supply one day in the US. OP should of said $8/gallon which is more likely after the disastrous policy of this administration