$7/gallon gas is coming

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans just make endless excuses for everything. If they had been working hard on energy efficiency rather than fighting against it then we would be well positioned to tackle the oil shortage caused by Putin. They have made sure to make us 100% dependent on fossil fuel and then they complain about that sake dependency.

Except Putin is also moving now to ban exports of wheat, palladium, nickel, and other commodities.

Sorry, but all of that green tech you dumb democrats love so much is entirely dependent on extracting metals like nickel and cobalt from highly unstable parts of the world, or from countries like Russia. They also require fossil fuels to extract and purify. You ivory tower liberals have your heads completely in the clouds and know zero about your green economy.

Keep setting up and then knocking down your own straw men!

Not sure what point you think you are making. Oil also finances authoritarian regimes and has since day 1. It doesn’t make sense that you would try to use that as a reason to advocate against more efficient energy sources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Bidenomics” is not going to take off as a talking point, guys. We know what you’re doing.

But "Putin's price hike" will?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oil experts now predict that oil could hit $150/Barrell soon with the geopolitical tensions in the world :

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/here-comes-247-gas-prices-warns-oil-strategist-in-dire-outlook/ar-AATWzAL?ocid=BingNewsSearch

How much more inflation will Americans be able to tolerate? Food and fuel are skyrocketing. Housing costs are skyrocketing. $7/gallon will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I remember back during 2007 when gas got really expensive and there were tons and tons of problems with thieves punching holes in people's gas tanks. Brace yourselves for history to rest itself. What plans does Biden have? The federal reserve is asleep at the wheel doing nothing to control inflation and has singaled that they're going to do everything possible to prop the stock market up while regular Americans suffer. Biden ended the pipeline, which will look horrendous if gas hits $7/gallon. It is extremely frustrating watching prices at the grocery store, utilities, and to fill up the car go up and up and up.

This is also a consequence of adopting all of the moronic prescriptions by liberal academic economists who preached globalism like it was a religion and they we'd all be better off outsourcing our manufacturing because of some hocus pocus effects of comparative advantage. Yeah, look how well it stretching supply chains all over the planet has worked out now. Not only is it a massive national security risk they we rely on these stupid supply chains for everything, any disruptions send prices skyrocketing. We should have never gutted our manufscitng base because leadership listened to those fools.

7 dollar gas? Try 10 or 15 dollar gas. It will come. But is all short term. I would not worry about fuel as an inflation issue. yes it is an issue but fuel will come back down. No one should worry about this.

Your other points do not make a lot of sense. Fed is not favoring stock market over inflation. Globalism is here to stay -- supply chain issues are not because of globalism, In fact we are about to embark on globalism on steroids after this war and after we come out of covid.

[Anonymous]

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Big winner: WMATA.

WMATA would be a big winner if it got its act together. A sizeable portion of its fleet is still out for repairs and rush hour is a debacle.

Wrong. Rush hour is fine. Want to experience a debacle during rush hour? Try driving down 66 every day instead.

All of the new Metro trains were recalled and are being fixed because of safety issues. How does that engender confidence in public transit when you have to recall your entire new fleet because they’re unsafe.

Some people also don’t want to deal with the growing safety issues on Metro either. Riding the DC Metro is a far cry from riding public transit on Stockholm or Hong Kong. Don’t act like Americans are spoiled because they don’t want to ride an underfunded, unsafe, crime ridden system that their counterparts in these places would scoff at.

Yes, a place like Copenhagen has higher gas prices. But it’s cycling network, urban design, and transit system blow this city’s out of the water. So why are Americans spoiled when they don’t have the same alternatives?

HAHAHA, a safety recall? Like car manufacturers do all the time, like Tesla literally recalling a half million vehicles just last month? Oh, but Metro does it and you've lost confidence. Talk about spoiled!

Also, your description of Copenhagen sounds like you're arguing for more investment and priority for non-car transit options. I agree!

You sound like a ideologue who just hates cars. There’s a reason the former COO of Metro resigned. Buying an entirely new fleet of trains only to recall them all for months because they’re unsafe is not a trivial matter. It is an embarrassing stain on a system that already was embarrassing for the capital of a developed nation.

And yes, I’m all for spending a lot more for transit, changing zoning laws to incentivize higher density next to transit, etc. Hopefully we can do it for a lower cost than is being incurred for the metro in NYC and our costs are more in line with what they pay per mile of public transit in France.

What I’m definitely not for is a bunch of privileged UMC and rich folks lecturing already financially stressed working class and middle class people about the nobility of suffering under higher gas prices while all of this infrastructure is yet to be built.

PP here. I am not a Republican. I am also not a neoliberal yuppie who doesn’t care about the material concerns of the working class when gas prices rise. People living paycheck to paycheck are going to feel this, not the average UMC white collar worker on DCUM. Build the infrastructure and cheaper carbon neutral alternatives first, then I won’t care so much about rising gas prices.

We have been fighting to build this infrastructure for decades. Republican opposition is the reason why poor people have fewer options in this country than any other modern country in the world. This is exactly what Republicans want.

[Anonymous]

Good news, the Saudi dictators are self selecting out of our "friendship". Pump baby pump.

[Anonymous]

Republicans have long peddled climate denial, and pushed overdependence on dwindling, backward resources like oil. We need to lessen our dependence on oil.

And now we are at war, which is disrupting global oil supply. Maybe that will finally be the impetus to make that happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good news, the Saudi dictators are self selecting out of our "friendship". Pump baby pump.

Scumbag Saudis still need to pay for torturing and murdering Jamal Khashoggi

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oil experts now predict that oil could hit $150/Barrell soon with the geopolitical tensions in the world :

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/here-comes-247-gas-prices-warns-oil-strategist-in-dire-outlook/ar-AATWzAL?ocid=BingNewsSearch

How much more inflation will Americans be able to tolerate? Food and fuel are skyrocketing. Housing costs are skyrocketing. $7/gallon will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I remember back during 2007 when gas got really expensive and there were tons and tons of problems with thieves punching holes in people's gas tanks. Brace yourselves for history to rest itself. What plans does Biden have? The federal reserve is asleep at the wheel doing nothing to control inflation and has singaled that they're going to do everything possible to prop the stock market up while regular Americans suffer. Biden ended the pipeline, which will look horrendous if gas hits $7/gallon. It is extremely frustrating watching prices at the grocery store, utilities, and to fill up the car go up and up and up.

This is also a consequence of adopting all of the moronic prescriptions by liberal academic economists who preached globalism like it was a religion and they we'd all be better off outsourcing our manufacturing because of some hocus pocus effects of comparative advantage. Yeah, look how well it stretching supply chains all over the planet has worked out now. Not only is it a massive national security risk they we rely on these stupid supply chains for everything, any disruptions send prices skyrocketing. We should have never gutted our manufscitng base because leadership listened to those fools.

7 dollar gas? Try 10 or 15 dollar gas. It will come. But is all short term. I would not worry about fuel as an inflation issue. yes it is an issue but fuel will come back down. No one should worry about this.

Your other points do not make a lot of sense. Fed is not favoring stock market over inflation. Globalism is here to stay -- supply chain issues are not because of globalism, In fact we are about to embark on globalism on steroids after this war and after we come out of covid.

Peak DCUM

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Bidenomics” is not going to take off as a talking point, guys. We know what you’re doing.

But "Putin's price hike" will?

I really wish he hadn't said that phrase. It's cringeworthy. It puts him on the level of the people putting the Biden stickers on the gas pump. This phrase was never going to take off and instead will just be mocked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans just make endless excuses for everything. If they had been working hard on energy efficiency rather than fighting against it then we would be well positioned to tackle the oil shortage caused by Putin. They have made sure to make us 100% dependent on fossil fuel and then they complain about that sake dependency.

You know. This is crap.

Republicans are NOT against clean energy or renewables. What we are against is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The technology to go full on green is just not there. We cannot yet all drive EV. Not only are they not affordable for most people, but charging stations are few and far between. And, we still need oil and gas to warm our homes. That is just a fact. Even if the technology were there.... the infrastructure in homes is not. It cannot be done overnight or even over a few years. It will take years to transition.

What the left has done is pushed going green to the point that gas and oil companies are holding back on production because they don't want to make the investments to pump when they see the government is trying to make them obsolete. Biden's words today were so full of lies. First off, the oil and gas prices were increasing long before the war in Ukraine. The govt may have "approved" permits, but the BLM has not approved the infrastructure to get the oil out of the ground. The pipes... the roads, etc. So, what is the use of pumping if the oil cannot be moved anywhere?

And, buying oil from Iran or Venezuela is crazy. US has the cleanest production anywhere. If environmentalists really cared, they should be livid about this.

So, what exactly has Biden done that shows he supports oil and gas production in the US? Nothing.

What he SHOULD do, but won't, is to bring in oil and gas executives and have a meeting. He should ask them what they need to ramp up production so that Americans can get some relief. You know.... talk to the experts.

[Anonymous]

Yes, America. Joe Biden has declared war on US oil and gas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good news, the Saudi dictators are self selecting out of our "friendship". Pump baby pump.

Scumbag Saudis still need to pay for torturing and murdering Jamal Khashoggi

You know that's never going to happen right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good news, the Saudi dictators are self selecting out of our "friendship". Pump baby pump.

As I said earlier, extraction economies tend to be corrupt kleptocracies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the democrats and liberals who worry about the poor? The working poor, who are being decimated by gas prices? It is not a lofty policy discussion for those people. It’s their life and financial survival being destroyed by inflation, food and gas prices, etc. Every discussion here attacks republicans for not caring for poor families, except this one.

Subsidizing oil companies doesn’t do anything for poor people. Public transit, higher minimum wage, childcare assistance, housing assistance, TANF, and a dozen other programs help the working poor.

Lower gas prices directly help the working poor. Public transit helps only those who live in cities. Where is the legislation to raise minimum wage? TANF is a nightmare program, the US government should be ashamed of it. Childcare assistance? housing assistance? and all the dozen other programs are ONLY for the poorest of the poor.

The working poor can’t qualify for those programs. The drive beater cars (that they can barely afford gas for now) and are in the most desperate situation possible with current inflation and gas prices.

People posting here are very out of touch. Delusional but also arrogant. It’s pretty scary.

[Anonymous]

Let’s drill, and invest more in renewables. We can do both; we should do both.