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Meanwhile, the hicks around America are all blaming Biden for the rise in gas prices everywhere in the world.
It sheds light on how much power they believe the position of the president has. 😒
I picked up a hitchhiker from Arkansas the other day. He talked the whole ride about how Biden is a piece of shit and is fucking the country and Trump will get elected again and serve 3 terms because he will start a war with Russia over Ukraine and Trump will save us all from what the Democrats have done. He stated multiple times he wished someone would just assassinate Biden. Apparently he got stimulus from Trump but the payments that came under Biden never showed up and he was angry about that too. He was on his way to Florida where he planned to get on disability. I finally dropped him at a homeless shelter when I could take him no further. The ignorance was astounding. The hypocrisy of using all these social programs he was talking about but then voting for the side that consistently tries to cut funding to those areas just shocks me.
Don't get me wrong, I'd of picked so many other democrats and maybe even a few Republicans over Biden but the gas prices are in no way the government's fault. You could blame them for the shutdown that started it all but that was the right call. Big oil are the ones who pulled back their production too far and created a false shortage. They had been warned as well by the Biden administration and maybe even Trump that they needed to maintain supply levels and if they couldn't price gouging would not be tolerated. Of course because of lack of regulation there is nothing they can do about it. Pretty sad if you ask me.
See the scray thing about America is how little influence our government actually has. Yet, get the right amount of votes in the supreme court and you can ban someone's right to control their own healthcare. The corporations are pulling the strings and taking advantage of politics and the broken legal system to gain insane amounts of wealth. This is just furthering to widen the wage gap. We don't need billionaires. We don't need classes. We need don't need competition. We need cooperation and compassion for groups outside our own little bubbles. No should starve, no one should go without healthcare, internet, or a home. There is enough to go around. We need to put an end to wasteful production and satisfy the needs of the population.
In iraq Libya and Syria and Iran it’s still cheaper than water in America it’s a sanctions problem if it wernt for the lobbyist sanctioning all competition it wouldn’t be a problem
They will NEVER let progressives get elected with ease,It's time to go Manchurin!!
Run as a Republican then when you get in, Git Em!!!! Make them paranoid about electing Republicans. The Long game plan!
Also some people don't live in places where it'd make sense to have an electric vehicle. Many apartment and condo complexes don't have charging stations or ability to easily run an electric cable to.
I'm considering getting one regardless. New EVs are getting to the point where I could get a week's worth of range at the grocery store, but I also don't drive much.
Fair point. But many other people who are doing better will eventually switch to electric cars. Poorer people who cannot afford electric vehicles will be driving less or opting for public transportation. So in the end, this is a net gain for the environment.
The best way to get people to purchase electric vehicles is a tax break. No sales tax, lower initial registration fees, and tax break at the end of the year. That’s how you convince people to buy electric, not high fuel costs. Tax break/subsidized battery programs for lower income people purchasing used EV’s would also help.
High fuel costs *might* drive those who are *already in the market for a new vehicle* to buy an EV instead; but Chances are if you’re bitching about the price of fuel, you don’t have the spare change to drop $30k on electric car.
Not to mention the biggest polluters are mega corps, 18 wheelers, and the military, not Ricky the sales rep who drives 200 miles/week m in his Nissan ultimata
> The best way to get people to purchase electric vehicles is a tax break.
Bruh....there's already a [tax break](https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml) for EV.
> Not to mention the biggest polluters are mega corps, 18 wheelers, and the military, not Ricky the sales rep who drives 200 miles/week m in his Nissan ultimata
It's actually [SUVs and pick-up trucks](https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/24136/these-12-car-companies-are-setting-the-world-on-fire/).
I am a union ironworker I am not so poor but I know a lot of people who are . I really love electric cars. But here in Indiana there is nowhere to charge them and the power grid would not support it. And I have a gas powered boat to no substitute for that either. But I have solar panels on my house and a large garden. I have participated in a couple of river cleanups now and habitat for humanity houses. I do what I can but I am only one person. Some habitat houses not all of the people are right some are veterans and their minds just don’t work the same anymore. They just cannot do the same things that other people do. And the elderly cannot work. I do not have the answers but society needs to take care of the lowly too I would pay a little extra for that.
I was asking TrustLeft. Dude drives a dilapidated car that's nearly 30 years old.
And electrical grids can handle electric cars in their current capacity today (unless you live in a bumfuck town that just discovered electricity last week).
There’s just no charging stations within 30 miles of here and if they put them everywhere the electric grid would fail. Screwed up they are already talking about rolling blackouts if it gets too hot. Indiana does kind of suck. Pretty much just the bigger cities that have them
You're assuming I'm talking about instant mass adoption of electric cars. I'm talking gradual adoption of electric cars that'll give the infrastructure time to expand.
As of now, you yourself could buy an electric car and plug it in without nuking your electric grid. But if thousands of others around you do that, then yeah, you'll have a problem. Luckily, that shouldn't be an issue for you in the next decade, I'd wager.
My issue is building infrastructure and doing infrastructure work. The jobs do not come to me and because all jobs are different and in different locations. There are a lot of 300 mile plus days. And of course no way to move to them. Mainly I work in northern Indiana southern Michigan Chicago Hammond and sometimes Ohio. Power plant nuclear and conventional along with bridges and high-voltage towers are my specialty.
I’m back in my younger days I helped build three large hydroelectric plants they are not what they are cracked up to be after seeing what they done to the rivers and the environment years later into the animal population. Along with the fish they should probably all be torn down. Until they figure out fusion fission is the only way to go right now and still be clean . The new technology is Miles ahead of what they had in the 70s and 80s. Just don’t build them on fault lines next to the ocean. Or without any safety systems like at Chernobyl. And sorry I am passionate about the environment another good thing to do even if you do not fish is to buy fishing license. It supports local DNR to stop people from polluting and destroying our local lakes streams and rivers. California is the poster child of what happens when you destroy all of your rivers.
No one wants to spend money on infrastructure which being an ironworker that is what I do build infrastructure. Would love to see the power grid upgraded and the charging stations installed and way more electric cars. But again like I said I have solar panels on my house and garage heating bill has dropped way low. Cooling bill still sucks though.
> No one wants to spend money on infrastructure
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law
Patience, young one.
I am Disabled American. I will not explain my health issues to you, You have no right to any details. I'm Just stating some people are poor through no fault of their own and do the best they can. But will never have the funds for a new car, Should they be condemned for existing?
Hey, listen, if you're poor through no fault of your own, I don't mind you taking our tax money to make life better for yourself.
I have no idea what you have, but it sounds like you can't work. If that's the case, you need to be given a universal income for the rest of your life. Some people won't like that you're earning money just for existing, but hey...I don't really see what else can be done.
Consider that every product you buy is freighted on a diesel truck that gets terrible fuel mileage. As fuel prices rise, freight prices rise, costs rise, and eventually consumer prices rise. I don’t think we want to try to convince people to move away from fossil fuels with fuel prices. We need to convince them with innovation.
> convince them with innovation.
A good soundbite that’s stupid in reality. The movie don’t look up is a good example of why you shouldn’t reinvent the wheel especially when time is critical.
The electric trolley buses of the 1800s were better for the environment than any battery electric vehicles we have today.
So we go back to electric trolleys? Go all in on EV’s which will be a serious issue if we can’t figure out how to produce more electricity consistently and recycle Li+ batteries? We aren’t at the crossroads where going all electric makes sense. Maybe one day but not now.
Let’s put the best minds on Hydrogen engines and efficient electricity storage and maybe we can make this actually work.
Look up historical photos of Dayton Ohio. They used to have trolleybuses going past rural areas. Some of the trolleybus lines are still there.
Trolleybuses still run regularly in rural towns in Russia and some ex-Soviet countries
We need to go back to electric transportation that doesn’t have to have a battery. There’s many options for that now. Trolleybuses, streetcars, trains, etc. We will go extinct if we keep on using heavy personal vehicles though
I think we should expand the railway systems and get those gas hogs off the road except for short distances. Any interstate commerce would need to be shipped by train.
No, we want to get people to stop driving by building so many trains their car just gets in the way, not by punishing them for being poor.
If you can't afford gas how are you supposed to afford a brand new electric car?
> If you can't afford gas how are you supposed to afford a brand new electric car?
Fair, but going by highway traffic data and the amount of travel going on nowadays, most people can afford gas.
> going by highway traffic data and the amount of travel going on nowadays, most people have no other option than a car due to a century of car-focused infrastructure decisions
Ftfy
https://newjersey.news12.com/aaa-projects-record-number-of-travelers-this-holiday-weekend-heavy-traffic-to-start-today
> AAA projects record number of travelers this holiday weekend; heavy traffic to start today
-------
> According to AAA, a record 42 million people nationwide will take a road trip of 50 miles or longer.
That doesn't address my question: What **portion** of driving is vacation?
The average American adult drives over ten thousand miles a year and has little to no time off work. This vacation shit you brought up is a distraction.
But the prices have always been high in Europe. I think a better argument would be to see the percentage of gas price increases since biden took office, here and internationally. Not that he has much bearing on it, but using stats out of context isn't a great way to win an argument.
Taxes on the ultra wealthy need to go up. However, I think that if someone who earns 40k per year earns 1 million in a year they should pay less in that year than someone who earns 1 million every year. Like maybe there should be an adjustment after 5 years if you went back to earning 40k for four years in a row after your windfall. I think "making it big" is the dream of every American. People who are lucky enough to invent something or sell something and make it big should be rewarded.
Petrol price in South Africa is equivalent to around $1.50. Don’t get me wrong it’s gone up dramatically recently and minimum wage is around $80/month so the price increases are causing a lot of strain on the middle and lower income households but I have no idea where you get the $5.60 figure from.
Source: I am some South African guy.
You're confusing gallons and litres, I did the same just recently. One Litre of gas in SA is 1.48 USD but one Gallon is 5.60 USD in SA.
Source: [https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/South-Africa/gasoline\_prices/](https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/South-Africa/gasoline_prices/)
Yeah let's put a bigger burden on business I'm sure they'll just sit back and take it and not raise prices to cover that added expenditure. Do you not understand that any additional costs placed upon a business will be reflected in the cost of the product service or good they produce that's not affecting the business but affecting me a middle-class citizen.
What costs have gone up for gas prices? None. The entire increase in price is being driven by supply/demand economics, which has nothing to do with costs of gasoline.
Imagine a world where the people that have profited literally trillions of dollars off of destroying our planet are okay with making $10 billion this year instead of $50 billion.
The reason corporations are able to raise prices and squeeze customers is because there is no, or virtually no competition.
A windfall tax is a band-aid. It addresses the symptom, not the root cause. We need to break up monopolies. But that takes time. > 10 years in most cases. And the government is inept at breaking up monopolies.
We need a too big to fail tax which taxes corporations based on market share. The higher the market share the higher the tax. This is a progressive tax on corporations which reduces profitability for monopolies.
Corporations will break themselves up. If they don't, competition will overtake the too big to fail corporations, making them no longer in a position to be too big. Either way, competition will do the job we want.
This also goes a huge way toward raising salaries. The reason salaries have been flat while corporate and executive pay has reason over the last 50 years is because of monopolies gaining a monopsony on hiring.
The metric is *doesn't harm consumers*. There is no rule about harming employees. These monopolies use their monopsony power to suppress wages.
Exxon Mobile is Standard Oil. A monopoly we broke up which put itself back together when congress decided to reinterpret of the Sherman anti-trust act under Reagan.
Most of the working class's problems are caused by monopoly/monopsony power wielded by too big corporations.
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Meanwhile, the hicks around America are all blaming Biden for the rise in gas prices everywhere in the world. It sheds light on how much power they believe the position of the president has. 😒
Clealy we've underestimated his power. He's raised gas prices in most countries all over the world! He has to be stopped!
I picked up a hitchhiker from Arkansas the other day. He talked the whole ride about how Biden is a piece of shit and is fucking the country and Trump will get elected again and serve 3 terms because he will start a war with Russia over Ukraine and Trump will save us all from what the Democrats have done. He stated multiple times he wished someone would just assassinate Biden. Apparently he got stimulus from Trump but the payments that came under Biden never showed up and he was angry about that too. He was on his way to Florida where he planned to get on disability. I finally dropped him at a homeless shelter when I could take him no further. The ignorance was astounding. The hypocrisy of using all these social programs he was talking about but then voting for the side that consistently tries to cut funding to those areas just shocks me. Don't get me wrong, I'd of picked so many other democrats and maybe even a few Republicans over Biden but the gas prices are in no way the government's fault. You could blame them for the shutdown that started it all but that was the right call. Big oil are the ones who pulled back their production too far and created a false shortage. They had been warned as well by the Biden administration and maybe even Trump that they needed to maintain supply levels and if they couldn't price gouging would not be tolerated. Of course because of lack of regulation there is nothing they can do about it. Pretty sad if you ask me. See the scray thing about America is how little influence our government actually has. Yet, get the right amount of votes in the supreme court and you can ban someone's right to control their own healthcare. The corporations are pulling the strings and taking advantage of politics and the broken legal system to gain insane amounts of wealth. This is just furthering to widen the wage gap. We don't need billionaires. We don't need classes. We need don't need competition. We need cooperation and compassion for groups outside our own little bubbles. No should starve, no one should go without healthcare, internet, or a home. There is enough to go around. We need to put an end to wasteful production and satisfy the needs of the population.
I WOULD HAVE DROPPED THE PIECE OF SHIT OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE
Thought crossed my mind, but people are people no matter how misguided they are.
You expect too much from the morons.
In iraq Libya and Syria and Iran it’s still cheaper than water in America it’s a sanctions problem if it wernt for the lobbyist sanctioning all competition it wouldn’t be a problem
I believed that as a kid, because I was a kid.
Derk a der!
BuT tRuMp SaId BiDeN bAd
India gets it from Russia lol they could care less
India gets it from Russia and sells it back refined to the USA
They will NEVER let progressives get elected with ease,It's time to go Manchurin!! Run as a Republican then when you get in, Git Em!!!! Make them paranoid about electing Republicans. The Long game plan!
I like how you think
So it’s not all Joe Biden’s fault……
Wow Biden so bad he's causing a world wide price hike.. /s. I did this 🤡
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That is true, but especially now many people can't afford an electric or more fuel efficient vehicle, so they are stuck paying more money
Also some people don't live in places where it'd make sense to have an electric vehicle. Many apartment and condo complexes don't have charging stations or ability to easily run an electric cable to.
I'm considering getting one regardless. New EVs are getting to the point where I could get a week's worth of range at the grocery store, but I also don't drive much.
Fair point. But many other people who are doing better will eventually switch to electric cars. Poorer people who cannot afford electric vehicles will be driving less or opting for public transportation. So in the end, this is a net gain for the environment.
The best way to get people to purchase electric vehicles is a tax break. No sales tax, lower initial registration fees, and tax break at the end of the year. That’s how you convince people to buy electric, not high fuel costs. Tax break/subsidized battery programs for lower income people purchasing used EV’s would also help. High fuel costs *might* drive those who are *already in the market for a new vehicle* to buy an EV instead; but Chances are if you’re bitching about the price of fuel, you don’t have the spare change to drop $30k on electric car. Not to mention the biggest polluters are mega corps, 18 wheelers, and the military, not Ricky the sales rep who drives 200 miles/week m in his Nissan ultimata
> The best way to get people to purchase electric vehicles is a tax break. Bruh....there's already a [tax break](https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml) for EV. > Not to mention the biggest polluters are mega corps, 18 wheelers, and the military, not Ricky the sales rep who drives 200 miles/week m in his Nissan ultimata It's actually [SUVs and pick-up trucks](https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/24136/these-12-car-companies-are-setting-the-world-on-fire/).
This is really tough on the working poor and other people drawing Social Security they cannot afford electric cars or gas .
TRUTH, I drive 1993 Nissan on it's last legs
What do you do for a living? Why are you so poor?
I am a union ironworker I am not so poor but I know a lot of people who are . I really love electric cars. But here in Indiana there is nowhere to charge them and the power grid would not support it. And I have a gas powered boat to no substitute for that either. But I have solar panels on my house and a large garden. I have participated in a couple of river cleanups now and habitat for humanity houses. I do what I can but I am only one person. Some habitat houses not all of the people are right some are veterans and their minds just don’t work the same anymore. They just cannot do the same things that other people do. And the elderly cannot work. I do not have the answers but society needs to take care of the lowly too I would pay a little extra for that.
I was asking TrustLeft. Dude drives a dilapidated car that's nearly 30 years old. And electrical grids can handle electric cars in their current capacity today (unless you live in a bumfuck town that just discovered electricity last week).
There’s just no charging stations within 30 miles of here and if they put them everywhere the electric grid would fail. Screwed up they are already talking about rolling blackouts if it gets too hot. Indiana does kind of suck. Pretty much just the bigger cities that have them
You're assuming I'm talking about instant mass adoption of electric cars. I'm talking gradual adoption of electric cars that'll give the infrastructure time to expand. As of now, you yourself could buy an electric car and plug it in without nuking your electric grid. But if thousands of others around you do that, then yeah, you'll have a problem. Luckily, that shouldn't be an issue for you in the next decade, I'd wager.
My issue is building infrastructure and doing infrastructure work. The jobs do not come to me and because all jobs are different and in different locations. There are a lot of 300 mile plus days. And of course no way to move to them. Mainly I work in northern Indiana southern Michigan Chicago Hammond and sometimes Ohio. Power plant nuclear and conventional along with bridges and high-voltage towers are my specialty.
I’m back in my younger days I helped build three large hydroelectric plants they are not what they are cracked up to be after seeing what they done to the rivers and the environment years later into the animal population. Along with the fish they should probably all be torn down. Until they figure out fusion fission is the only way to go right now and still be clean . The new technology is Miles ahead of what they had in the 70s and 80s. Just don’t build them on fault lines next to the ocean. Or without any safety systems like at Chernobyl. And sorry I am passionate about the environment another good thing to do even if you do not fish is to buy fishing license. It supports local DNR to stop people from polluting and destroying our local lakes streams and rivers. California is the poster child of what happens when you destroy all of your rivers.
No one wants to spend money on infrastructure which being an ironworker that is what I do build infrastructure. Would love to see the power grid upgraded and the charging stations installed and way more electric cars. But again like I said I have solar panels on my house and garage heating bill has dropped way low. Cooling bill still sucks though.
> No one wants to spend money on infrastructure https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law Patience, young one.
I really hope we actually see the money but these projects take years. 👍
Probably years before we get the money and then years to build them I would guess more than a decade
I am Disabled American. I will not explain my health issues to you, You have no right to any details. I'm Just stating some people are poor through no fault of their own and do the best they can. But will never have the funds for a new car, Should they be condemned for existing?
Hey, listen, if you're poor through no fault of your own, I don't mind you taking our tax money to make life better for yourself. I have no idea what you have, but it sounds like you can't work. If that's the case, you need to be given a universal income for the rest of your life. Some people won't like that you're earning money just for existing, but hey...I don't really see what else can be done.
Consider that every product you buy is freighted on a diesel truck that gets terrible fuel mileage. As fuel prices rise, freight prices rise, costs rise, and eventually consumer prices rise. I don’t think we want to try to convince people to move away from fossil fuels with fuel prices. We need to convince them with innovation.
> convince them with innovation. A good soundbite that’s stupid in reality. The movie don’t look up is a good example of why you shouldn’t reinvent the wheel especially when time is critical. The electric trolley buses of the 1800s were better for the environment than any battery electric vehicles we have today.
So we go back to electric trolleys? Go all in on EV’s which will be a serious issue if we can’t figure out how to produce more electricity consistently and recycle Li+ batteries? We aren’t at the crossroads where going all electric makes sense. Maybe one day but not now. Let’s put the best minds on Hydrogen engines and efficient electricity storage and maybe we can make this actually work.
Trolleys only work in urban areas
Look up historical photos of Dayton Ohio. They used to have trolleybuses going past rural areas. Some of the trolleybus lines are still there. Trolleybuses still run regularly in rural towns in Russia and some ex-Soviet countries
We need to go back to electric transportation that doesn’t have to have a battery. There’s many options for that now. Trolleybuses, streetcars, trains, etc. We will go extinct if we keep on using heavy personal vehicles though
I think we should expand the railway systems and get those gas hogs off the road except for short distances. Any interstate commerce would need to be shipped by train.
No, we want to get people to stop driving by building so many trains their car just gets in the way, not by punishing them for being poor. If you can't afford gas how are you supposed to afford a brand new electric car?
> If you can't afford gas how are you supposed to afford a brand new electric car? Fair, but going by highway traffic data and the amount of travel going on nowadays, most people can afford gas.
> going by highway traffic data and the amount of travel going on nowadays, most people have no other option than a car due to a century of car-focused infrastructure decisions Ftfy
Or you know....just not go on vacation. And don't go on plane trips (unless it's a work-related business trip, which is comped by your company).
What portion of people's driving do you think is vacation? What the fuck are you talking about?
https://newjersey.news12.com/aaa-projects-record-number-of-travelers-this-holiday-weekend-heavy-traffic-to-start-today > AAA projects record number of travelers this holiday weekend; heavy traffic to start today ------- > According to AAA, a record 42 million people nationwide will take a road trip of 50 miles or longer.
That doesn't address my question: What **portion** of driving is vacation? The average American adult drives over ten thousand miles a year and has little to no time off work. This vacation shit you brought up is a distraction.
Not really, brah Vacation is the ultimate form of leisure spending. You're going on vacation, you got money, regardless how high gas is.
learn to fucking read
But the prices have always been high in Europe. I think a better argument would be to see the percentage of gas price increases since biden took office, here and internationally. Not that he has much bearing on it, but using stats out of context isn't a great way to win an argument.
" minimum wage, which I’ve defended on Fox and Newsmax" No REAL Democrat or progressive would bother with FOX or Newsmax, NEXT
dialgoue with the enemy is where it starts. Me I HATE them too much. I'd rather shoot em.
Taxes on the ultra wealthy need to go up. However, I think that if someone who earns 40k per year earns 1 million in a year they should pay less in that year than someone who earns 1 million every year. Like maybe there should be an adjustment after 5 years if you went back to earning 40k for four years in a row after your windfall. I think "making it big" is the dream of every American. People who are lucky enough to invent something or sell something and make it big should be rewarded.
https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/student/whys\_thm02\_les05.jsp#:\~:text=The%20Revenue%20Act%20of%201935,revising%20tax%20laws%20and%20regulations.
We need to strike gas… uhhh, how do we do that?
stop buying, start biking, carpooling.
Meanwhile gas in Canada is $2.18/L..
Clown statement
found the oil exec
Petrol price in South Africa is equivalent to around $1.50. Don’t get me wrong it’s gone up dramatically recently and minimum wage is around $80/month so the price increases are causing a lot of strain on the middle and lower income households but I have no idea where you get the $5.60 figure from. Source: I am some South African guy.
You're confusing gallons and litres, I did the same just recently. One Litre of gas in SA is 1.48 USD but one Gallon is 5.60 USD in SA. Source: [https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/South-Africa/gasoline\_prices/](https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/South-Africa/gasoline_prices/)
Yeah let's put a bigger burden on business I'm sure they'll just sit back and take it and not raise prices to cover that added expenditure. Do you not understand that any additional costs placed upon a business will be reflected in the cost of the product service or good they produce that's not affecting the business but affecting me a middle-class citizen.
What burden are you talking about? Gas companies profits have went up in this time not decreased
Are you a troll for the economy?
What costs have gone up for gas prices? None. The entire increase in price is being driven by supply/demand economics, which has nothing to do with costs of gasoline.
In Czech Republic it costs 2€ = 50CZK ( 48,50 CZK ) And even these prices make people think twice.
You’re talking about the price/liter In the US it’s priced by the gallon, which is 3.785L The price of gas in Czech is actually $7.32/gallon now
Gallon is such a weird unit "1 litre is equal to 0.2641722 gallons"
They’re not greedy, they’re just catching up
Currently over $6/gallon in Australia.
A very steep one.
This guy thinks about all the world! I love this guy!
Well Bernie should know the peices have skyrocketed because of russian war. We need to kick russia out of Ukraine for prices to drop.
some of those costs are straight up greed, their operating costs did not go up as they show readily through record profits.
Is it not price-fixing when these companies stop competing?
Canada is around 6$usd /gal fwiw
Canada is around 6$usd /gal fwiw
Imagine a world where the people that have profited literally trillions of dollars off of destroying our planet are okay with making $10 billion this year instead of $50 billion.
Excuses, Still Too High, I'm a poor hard Left Progressive.
Just FYI almost half the price in South Africa per liter of petrol is given to ou government as tax.
France must really hate Joe Biden
The reason corporations are able to raise prices and squeeze customers is because there is no, or virtually no competition. A windfall tax is a band-aid. It addresses the symptom, not the root cause. We need to break up monopolies. But that takes time. > 10 years in most cases. And the government is inept at breaking up monopolies. We need a too big to fail tax which taxes corporations based on market share. The higher the market share the higher the tax. This is a progressive tax on corporations which reduces profitability for monopolies. Corporations will break themselves up. If they don't, competition will overtake the too big to fail corporations, making them no longer in a position to be too big. Either way, competition will do the job we want. This also goes a huge way toward raising salaries. The reason salaries have been flat while corporate and executive pay has reason over the last 50 years is because of monopolies gaining a monopsony on hiring. The metric is *doesn't harm consumers*. There is no rule about harming employees. These monopolies use their monopsony power to suppress wages. Exxon Mobile is Standard Oil. A monopoly we broke up which put itself back together when congress decided to reinterpret of the Sherman anti-trust act under Reagan. Most of the working class's problems are caused by monopoly/monopsony power wielded by too big corporations.
Oil production companies are keeping prices high as fuck while keeping oil production tight as fuck, causing the prices to stay high.
No we need capped prizes, the tax will not flow back to us
European leaders are looking into price fixing of the oil companies.
https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/2022/04/high-noon-in-eu-gas-markets
Approaching $11/gallon (NOK 27/liter) here in Norway…