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      Unfortunately, gasoline woes will ripple through nearly every commodity or grocery that you partake in. If you’re truly off grid, it probably won’t do much. But as long as you shop from grocery stores or buy things period, you’re gonna feel it a little. Not as much as a gas-guzzler, but you’ll feel it.

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        I mean I’m just piss posting and I’m deeply concerned for how it is going to impact my community, which is extremely impoverished and working class, and often have super long commutes.

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      Yeah a friend of mine was shocked when she asked me about my position on data centers and I basically told her IDGAF. I then had to remind her that I have a 21KW solar array and 45kwh of battery storage. My carbon usage is net negative.

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      Wild that when i use this gif in relation to tech layoffs and AI i get wild amounts of downvotes.

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      You missed the George Bush Jr era highs. $8+/gal in California. Even Houston, Texas pumps were charging north of $6. That was shortly before the 2006 mid-term bloodbath. Mysteriously, prices absolutely tanked just before the election, then rebounded a few weeks after the polls closed - not that it saved anyone.

      Don’t worry. The last boat just parked in California and they say they’re good for the next six weeks. So I’m sure everything is going to be fine going forward.

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    All because of one low IQ pedo and the members of Congress and the public that support that pedo.

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    It’s ironic that a guy who hates “chy-nah” so much and wants to “drill”, has likely done more to push Chinese cars worldwide, and EV’s than any other president in history.

    Whilst quality of life has dropped, he’s also done an amazing job in pushing the AUD upwards vs USD too

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          Long term they do, and they are the best placed for EVs in the future(especially since Elon went full Nazi at one point)

          There are a more of US brands they’ll likely kill off I suspect

          My friend worked and Nissan and he expects them to be gone soonish (he now works MG).

          And the 4wd repair shop here in Australia doesn’t expect Jeep to be around in 10 years either

          Whereas, I think everyone expects byd to be around in 10 years

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      It’s like he doesn’t understand markets, trade, geopolitics, or just basic business.

      Not like we didn’t know that about him before he got elected. The first time.

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    I don’t feel sorry for Americans. You voted this orange turd in. While the rest of the world suffers as well

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      To be clearly, only about a 1/3rd of us voted for him. And realistically, of the registered voters, only a small percentage can actually influence the outcome by way of being in “swing states”.

      But yah, I’m pretty fucking pissed at pensilvanians who wrote in Mickey Mouse because they thought it was funny.

      I’m personally not that upset about gas prices going up as I can not afford a car anyways.

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    K but somehow seems less important than the fact that Donald Trump raped and trafficked children and the Republican Party is protecting him.

    With that said, sucks it’s going to cost so much to light him on fire after dumping gasoline on him, but it’s worth it. Think of the children.

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        No? I think the fact a child rapist has been allowed to be President is of greater concern than rising gas prices. That between the two gas prices are less important than the fact the child rapist hasn’t been excised from office and preferably killed in such a way as to set an example to the rest of the Epstein Class.

        Unless I fucked up that sentiment somehow in my previous post?

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          I agree that the stuff about trump is more important than gas prices therefore i wanted to correct your first sentence. You meant it seems that people care more about gas prices than the child rapist in power. So you should have written “more”, not “less”, if you meant it the way you just explained.

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            Okay no, you partially misunderstood/misread my comment. It was written more as a tongue in cheek reply to the Title. Another way to put the first of my original sentence is “K but (Gas Prices) somehow seems less important than…”

            I wrote it exactly how I meant it. If I replaced it with more not less it would read out “K but (Gas Prices) somehow seems more important than…” in which case I would be saying the exact opposite of what I mean.

            The Original version is correct.

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      The same ones who harassed and terrorized drag queens for being groomers, they’re outside the white house protesting the orange turd for and his cronies for being kid-diddlers right…right?

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    “I rather pay higher costs in gas as long as it means we’re safe!” What I hear on the daily. I’m wondering if the one’s saying that lived in fear every single day since 2003? Must be a stressful life

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      “I rather pay higher costs in gas as long as it means we’re safe!”

      If you don’t live in one of the two biggest towers in NYC, you’re probably going to be fine.

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    I would say that’s lights out for Republicans in the midterm elections, but we are well into full irrationality in this country at this point.