3 Gallons of Gas For 20 Dollars.

@mott-the-hoople said
the infrastructure is not in place even if people could afford a battery powered short range vehicle.

Nothing viable is in the near future…if the US were completely electric it would only account for 15% of the worlds polution…keep giving your money and support to these crooks

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15%?.............How much do we account for now?.............40%?
With what?.....................Less than 10% of the worlds population?
Why do Republicans oppose ramping up infrastructure?

@jimm619 said
You keep running your neck...Talk is cheap.
SHOW ME WHERE BIDEN CUT OIL PRODUCTION.
Fact is, to lower prices, he released oil from our petroleum reserves.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/strategic-petroleum-reserve-release-oil-joe-biden/index.html
I'm tryin' hard to like you, just post some facts, huh.
Don't make a fool of yourself....Ministry of Plenty, me arse.

My God what a fool

@mott-the-hoople said
My God what a fool

Yes you are, for once we agree.

@jj-adams said
I hate to think what Diesel costs.
Wonder how much a trucker pays for a full tank?
Ya reckon that will filter down to what we pay for the stuff being hauled?
Inflation is just getting started.
Gee I wish Biden hadn't shut down all the production and pipelines and such. What a dick.

If only Congress would do their job and tax the rich then we wouldn't have these problems

@jj-adams said
Yes that will fix everything, while the rest of America starves in the meantime.
I think in another year most of us will be scratching and pecking around for ways to avoid shortages and huge prices on essentials, while trying to maintain a decent standard of living on paychecks that aren't keeping up with costs.
A lot of Americans who used to be middle-class are already there.

And the wealthy keep getting wealthier if only there were some way to fix this imbalance

@jj-adams said
I'm speechless.
So you claim Biden had nothing to do with cutting down domestic oil production?
Wow.
Long Live Big Brother.
The Ministry of Plenty has a position for you.

Domestic oil production dropped sharply in August 2020 (before Biden, obviously) and has been steadily rising since. White house can regulate permitting and leasing but doesn't set prices and can't force oil companies to drill. It appears that the increases in prices have been bad for us and bad for Biden but very very very good for oil companies. In terms of who is responsible, it seems like a good bet is on who benefits the most from the price spike. It also seems like these companies have hoarded leases and permits without drilling on them. I'll put blame on oil companies, for now, and I don't really want to live in a society where the gov't sets the price of consumer goods.

@athousandyoung said
And the wealthy keep getting wealthier if only there were some way to fix this imbalance

Tax everyone equally without exception the same rate with the first 30k tax free. 30001 would tax that 1 dollar the same rate as everyone else on up. That would stop all hidden ways those who write the tax laws get richer along with their friends in both parties.

@kellyjay said
Tax everyone equally without exception the same rate with the first 30k tax free. 30001 would tax that 1 dollar the same rate as everyone else on up. That would stop all hidden ways those who write the tax laws get richer along with their friends in both parties.

No that would put all the tax burden on the middle class. Don't be silly.

@kellyjay said
Tax everyone equally without exception the same rate with the first 30k tax free. 30001 would tax that 1 dollar the same rate as everyone else on up. That would stop all hidden ways those who write the tax laws get richer along with their friends in both parties.

That wouldn't stop anything. There'd suddenly be a lot of CEOs getting 30k a year in income while somehow retaining their mansions, yachts and million acre ranches.

@wildgrass said
That wouldn't stop anything. There'd suddenly be a lot of CEOs getting 30k a year in income while somehow retaining their mansions, yachts and million acre ranches.

Even if they didn't it would decrease the tax burden on the rich dramatically.

@athousandyoung said
No that would put all the tax burden on the middle class. Don't be silly.

It would be the same burden on all equally concerning percentages.

@athousandyoung said
Even if they didn't it would decrease the tax burden on the rich dramatically.

Pick a percentage; no one escapes it; the more you make, the more you pay. With
respect to what one spends their own money on, I don't care.

@athousandyoung said
And the wealthy keep getting wealthier if only there were some way to fix this imbalance

Warren Buffet once mused,
''My secretary pays a higher tax rate than I do.''

@kellyjay said
It would be the same burden on all equally concerning percentages.

Same burden?
$100 is more important to me
than $1 million is to Bill Gates.

@jimm619 said
Same burden?
$100 is more important to me
than $1 million is to Bill Gates.

So?