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glenglish's avatar

Why can't we free ourselves from the oil cartels who are addicted to our money and force us to be petro junkies? If we wanna promote electric cars and switch to zero CO₂ energy, that has t'be a voting issue. Big Oil sold Trump to maga.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. What a mess.

Rad's avatar

Running errands last night. Regional (Southern New England) gas prices, at the DISCOUNT gas stations were at $3.59gal. Over $5 for diesel (everywhere). And that's this week!

Sorry... we feel so... nothing... for any of that or the idiots who bought the PLATINUM F-150's that still only get 12mpg. My neighbor just bought a 2026 Cadillac Escalade. It's parked... a lot.

We read the tea leaves years ago. Husband and I both drive EV's and invested heavily to get as carbon neutral as we could get today. This time of year, it costs us around $0.87 per gallon/equivalent to "fill up" for weekly operation, and we "fill up" from the outlet in the garage ($0.27kW). Now that solar power (we got a 13.2kWh architecture on the house) season is rapidly approaching, that cost per gallon goes down to, oh... $0. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA. FREE!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh, sorry, didn't mean to say that last part out loud.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oops... sorry.

Smug? Yes. Earned. Fuck yeah.

Goonemeritus's avatar

But my legs are already sexy, one doesn't want ones legs to be too sexy.

My Erdos Number Is Five's avatar

But we couldn’t have a brown woman who laughs. How unpresidential.

motmelere's avatar

I hope to live to see the day when oil prices are insanely high because your arcane burn-o-mobile still runs on that shit and we don't sell it on every street corner anymore.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

We'll have an artisanal industry to serve the car afficionados like Jay Leno who can afford to maintain antique cars.

Goonemeritus's avatar

When that day comes I will convert my car to whale oil

motmelere's avatar

Secretary of transportation Sean Duffy used to represent the city of Superior, WI. He now serves in an administration that refuses to release funds lawfully designated to rebuild a major bridge that is vital to regional and international trade. Trump doesn't build shit, and the only thing Duffy can brag about is that he humped seven more idiots into this world.

Zyxomma's avatar

That POS has seven spawn? Ugh. Oh, why didn't more of us intelligent, kind, empathetic people breed? We knew better. I declared at age 12 I wouldn't have kids, and didn't.

mr_snarky's avatar

can't you see this is all part of the stable genius' plan? he's playing 5 dimensional chess and everyone else is play checkers.

ie he probably had third parties buy oil futures before launching the war and now they're worth a fortune. haha he's not that smart but bessent is you betcha.

Alternative Dog's avatar

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨?

Our Marcie, always looking for the silver lining.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

Put Barron on a ship and send it through the straight. Then I’ll believe it’s safe.

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

He doesn't know Barron.

Send Ivanka.

Stulexington's avatar

"Pansy tanker captains, why back in my day we didn't have all this fancy GPS, tankers navigated the Straits on guts!"

"and Iranian pilots."

"Yeah! and they had to deal with Iranian pirates!"

"Pilots sir, they navigated with Iranian pilots."

"I'm not talking about aircraft you twit!"

Pope Jen is Weak on Crème!'s avatar

I don't think they were telling the truth when they totally swore they voted for Bamz or Biden, myself.

Stulexington's avatar

Well I mean some of them had to right? The numbers don't lie.

Pope Jen is Weak on Crème!'s avatar

The numbers lie if the people who got the numbers asked liars

Hank Napkin's avatar

"You go to war because of the president you have, not because of the president you might want or wish to have at a later time.” -- Dead Rumsfeld

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

"All right, let's go at this from a standpoint of functionality. What, so far, have they done right about this war?"

Hank Napkin's avatar

For one thing Pentagon Accountants are switching from LIFO to FIFO.

Zyxomma's avatar

Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Huy Nguyen's avatar

Amazing to learn that “strong leadership” apparently means bombing first, deleting tweets later, and then acting shocked that tankers, insurers, and markets are not persuaded by Pete Hegseth’s nipples.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Nipple is like the only part of the body that doesn't have any nicknames. It's like people hear nipple, and they get enough of a jolt out of that not to feel the need for slang terms.

Hank Napkin's avatar

Did Pete pull off his rings?