Gas Prices: Do Blue States put Residents in the Red
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Nationally, the average cost for a gallon of gas was $4.52 on Tuesday. In addition to California, Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii all had prices averaging more than $5 on Tuesday.
Nationally, the average cost for a gallon of gas was $4.52 on Tuesday. In addition to California, Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii all had prices averaging more than $5 on Tuesday.
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Now, they need to get all this debt off their books. But, if they sell these mortgages, rates will skyrocket and real estate prices will crash.
He so claims he is not into extras and doesn't care if he gets them. Then he talks about how easy it was to get laid in the 1970s. I bet he can't find dancers he can afford to pay enough to fuck him. That's right. Some dancers are smart and charge ass hole tax
I guess that depends on what you consider "relatively little money." You still have property taxes, medical copays/deductibles, auto expenses (insurance, repairs, gas), food expenses, utilities, phone bills, etc.
The one silver lining in all of this inflation is that it may start pushing people back into the labor force, which we need for the long-term health of the economy.
Luckily I love working and cleaning cars - it’s therapeutic to me. If anything the past two years have taught me (stuck at home during COVID, how fragile life is, and inflation, and seeing people spend like crazy at the beginning and now whine the loudest about inflation) it’s - appreciate what you already have…
Its weird - I travel a fraction of what I used to (just talking about personal/pleasure travel) and I really don’t miss it at all.
The outcome of my research project was the prediction that aggressive environmental
measures would cause economic catastrophe.
There are good reasons to pursue environmental policies. Clean air and water are really
important, but the notion that we're going to live this ultra-green lifestyle of solar
and wind power and battery electric vehicles has serious implications. They're going
to kill a lot of people, like billions, if they really push this thing.
As for the need to do it to prevent "climate change catastrophe", notice how they've been
telling us the "bad stuff" was going to happen soon enough, and that they keep pushing
back the date that it's supposed to get "really bad". Kind of like how cvid was going to start
getting really bad in "two weeks"?
Anyway, after the PhD I couldn't get a job in government or academia because I was not
a radical green. I had the idealistic notion that these were places that valued vigorous
debate in order to come up with the best policies.
My opinion of climate change is that it is "real", as in the climate does change and human behavior
probably impacts it to some degree, but that it's not a problem that humans are capable of solving
directly. The best thing to do is to learn to live with it and adapt with it. That's what humanity
has been doing all along anyway.
The economic devastation now is just the start. The green revolution will put the Nazis to shame.
$25,000
Enough to pay RE taxes ( at least in AZ), food, utilities, medical copays, car insurance, gas ( if you don’t drive much ).
Now, if you want to golf, ski, vacation, cruise, enjoy fine dining, theater, etc you’ll need 3 or 4 times that.
Others will follow because they're on the same World Economic Forum script.
The world will not be ready for this. It will be a disaster if it goes through, at least for regular people.
For the global elite it will be a big opportunity to reset the world into a more comfortable configuration for themselves. If you were Gill Bates would you really want to share the Earth with billions of filthy useless eaters? A cleaner, less chaotic world would be really nice if you knew you weren't going to be in the group getting written off.
SJG
Strange Kind of Women - Perfect Strangers - live at La Grande Ourse Concert Hall
(this is so extremely good and so close to the original artist's recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfLYvbRi…
Shirley Manson & Christine Hynde (The Pretenders) - Only Happy When It Rains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfc3oOhx…
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - 2013 School of Rock AllStars Team 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-3Y3vh…
The earth has always been changing since it was born. Dolphins were once land animals. They changed to keep up with the changing environment. Humans need to do the same. We can help mother nature but at a pace that is manageable.
SJG
Strange Kind of Women - Perfect Strangers - live at La Grande Ourse Concert Hall
(this is so extremely good and so close to the original artist's recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfLYvbRi…
SJG
Strange Kind of Women - Perfect Strangers - live at La Grande Ourse Concert Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfLYvbRi…
If the left wrote The Emperor's New Clothes, the kid who correctly pointed out that the Emperor was naked would be the bad guy.
If they wrote The Grasshopper and the Ants, the ants would be the bad guys.
If they wrote The Three Little Pigs, the pig who worked hard and
built the sturdy brick house would be the bad guy.
If they wrote The Little Red Hen, the hen would be the villian.
SJG
The Kinks - Till the End of the Day (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQw7wLvJ…
two-passenger convertible sports car introduced at the London Motor Show in 1962
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Sp…
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/feat…
What does this mean ? The consumer has decided to stop spending money on discretionary goods and services. That’s going to lead to large layoffs in many industries. For those who still have jobs, they’ll find bargains.
Things are about to get much worse. Across the earth.
When will it end ? Ask Joe Biden how much longer he’s going to ban oil drilling, writing new regulations, and bringing in millions of immigrants to take American jobs.
Yup. Our politicians and the Fed, so eager to spend gobs of money and artificially fuel growth, completely ignored the inflationary lessons of the 70s. Those lessons of course include: (1) If you pour gobs of money supply into the economy, inflation will surge; and (2) extended high inflation can trigger a recession almost as readily as steep interest rate hikes.
I suppose this makes sense. For anyone under 40, inflation is not the boogeyman that it is for those of us old enough to remember, so of course they were more supportive of the endless government goodies (stimulus payments, tax credit checks, enhanced unemployment, higher Obamacare subsidies, etc.). After all, today is so super different from the 70s that we don't need to worry about a bloated money supply anymore, right?
History is indeed doomed to repeat itself.
Things may get very, very bad even in the US.
I just paid 6.60 for super.
The thing is with a lot of enviro regulations is that the rules are made to benefit particular businesses. They then dress it in some sort of environmental benefit context.
They're trying to put up a new office park development in my town, with tons of empty office space. It's a ballot initiative. All their signs say it's to help prevent climate change. The reality is if the developer succeeds in rezoning his land from agriculture to commercial it's an easy 100x, so he'll put in some solar panels and a bike path. Sure, np.
Nixon had Phase 1 and Phase 2 of price controls. Interesting. I don't think it did anything for containing inflation though.
SJG
SJG
So how much gas does your huffy bike use?
One pumped from the ground there isn't much room to store oil. There's some, but it's not cheap to sit on it. Oil must be refined into gasoline. There isn't much room to store gasoline, not cheap. It needs to go out the gas stations, and then it needs to get sold, because the supply line from the oil field to the gas pump doesn't have a lot of spare capacity to hold on to things.
The logistics of gasoline production are complex to the point that it's really better for the producers to keep the supply line working efficiently than to try and game the market for a few extra points.
Summer gasoline gets more expensive because of the formulation change as well as increased demand. There aren't a lot of extra tankers and extra storage facilities to lower the summer supply shock so the price goes up, decreasing demand a little.
Yes, the oil companies have us by the balls, but they're more like drug dealers than muggers. They want their clients alive and buying more oil in the future, because that's better for them too. It isn't good business for them to extort their customers opportunistically. Not that it never happens, but it isn't simple for them to do because they've got to manage the supply chain up to the gas pump for months in advance to really make it work.
The current milk formula shortage is just one more example of government trying regulate the market and screwing things up.
The inflation disaster is entirely caused by government meddling in the economic cycle.
Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.
In reaction, the FDA shut down the largest manufacturer of formula for several months. During this time, various tests failed to link the infection to Abbot.
In the name of protecting children, every infant in America was put at risk.
Fossil fuel plants have been shut down and replaced by hydro-electric, solar, and wind plants. These renewable sources are unable to provide the same volume and consistency of power generating. The drought has effected hydro. Supply chain has prevented new solar. There simply isn’t enough capacity while fossil fuel plants are abandoned.
Take a class in Ecnomics at your community college if you can find a professor on the west coast that is not a socialist
Prevent energy production. Shut down power plants. Lock down the economy for 2 years. Fire anyone who doesn’t follow every vaccine and mask regulation. Over regulate business. Shut down schools. Delay projects for years for environmental studies. Pour trillions of dollars into the economy, rewarding people who don’t work.
Then, claim the consequences are “unexpected” and blame Putin.
Most Americans would welcome price controls over corporate fan boy shit
The Biden administration canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease sales pending before the Department of the Interior Wednesday, as Americans face record-high prices at the pump, according to AAA.
The DOI halted the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, along with two lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
How is yhe Arizona election recount going?
The only way society can survive is if most people work and pay their own way. There is a large segment of the population, like ICEE, who believe they are victims who deserve to sit at home while others work hard.
That’s how civilizations fail.
Biden’s overall approval has dropped to 35% with 57% disapproval.
Among young voters aged 18-to-34 the disapproval is 61% (approval 27%).
Among Hispanics Biden disapproval is 60% (approval 26%).
Among Independent voters disapproval is 62% (approval 30%)
Of the stuff he hasn't been able to do, well he is the President of a Constitutional Democracy, not a Dictator. The congressional Republicans are idiots. They have stalled Biden, just as they did Obama, and as they really fucked up Bill Clinton.
SJG
"There's a horrible thing out there, just give up your rights and money so we can protect you from it."
Notice a pattern?
Lol
Fuck these people. These are the elite brains we are supposed to admire and follow ?!
Super-woke Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez boasts that her new engagement ring is made from “recycled gold” and is “zero emission.”
Maybe it was mentioned again this year but just a heads up this isn't new.
https://thegnmsolution.com/2022/05/21/pf…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uio8X1h0…
https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/statu…
I'm not saying this is fake or anything like that. I think it is valid to be concerned about this ongoing effort - but these pages are doing a piss poor job and laying out these facts. This is why people don't trust sources like this.