EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Quinten Martinez, pumping gas under a hot South Texas sun, remembers a time when fueling up didn’t require difficult decisions.
“Is it going to be groceries this week?” asked the 28-year-old Amazon delivery driver as he watched the numbers tick higher. “Is it gonna be getting gas in our tank to go to work?”
He shook his head when asked about President Donald Trump’s assertion last week that higher gas prices are a small price to pay for the war with Iran.
“I don’t feel like it’s a good trade-off,” Martinez said. “I don’t feel like this is good for anyone.”
Voters across the country, and across the political spectrum, tend to agree.
No new wars btw
After 50 years of living with conservatives in Texas, I can confidently say the only good war would have been the civil war if we had finished it properly. We wouldn’t have concentration camps in US or be funding genocides if we had finished it properly.
Conservatives have infested both major parties all because we didn’t properly finish that damned war. Wtf, Sherman?! Conservatives would never have let us live. Now they will prove it.
“I don’t feel like it’s a good trade-off,” Martinez said. “I don’t feel like this is good for anyone.”
Climate scientists have been telling us for 30 years we need to stop burning fossil fuels.
personally I’d rather we had $100 a gallon and deal with the consequences of that rather then cheap gasoline and diesel and deal with the cosequences of that
I’m with you bro, I pray the gas prices keep going up. The redneck shitbags are still driving their giant heehaw trucks around all day and night. I’ll know gas prices are high enough when harrassing your neighbors stops being a recreational daily event.
It’s a fair point for sure, but it’ll only matter if billionaires and major corporations are impacted. It’s air travel that’s the worst culprit.
From the EPA. We also need to decarbonize our electricity generation and whatever “industry” means exactly, and how we heat our buildings.
Yeah. If it was any one thing then we could have made massive progress already.
Is it just me, or the colors in the first chart don’t match the color key?
Seems to be just you
They look a little darker in the key compared to the filled regions of the chart, but it’s probably the same as the lines above those filled regions.
I mean the billionaires are not going to be the biggest abusers of flights. Everyone travels. I imagine spirit flys more flights than all the billionaires combined.
All that will accomplish is making sure only the wealthy can afford to drive. The rest of us will still be expected to get to work on time.
Which is a good thing. Public Transport or nobody working. Make your choice politicians.
Homeless vagrants? Straight to the jail work camps!
Depends how much gas prices rise. If more Americans would drive compact compact cars instead of driving super inefficient gas guzzling Trucks that use 20l per 100km, you could save a lot of money and don’t have to drive less.
All that will accomplish is making sure only the wealthy can afford to
drivebe chauffeured. FTFY
Oh yes. And what was it we were getting from the pedo in chief’s war of choice again?
Oh yes. And what was it we were getting from the pedo in chief’s war of choice again?
Global distraction from the Epstein files and the fact that Trump raped children on that island.
For the small small price of dead Iranians, dead Americans, and a fucked global economy, Trump can keep those in the news instead of the files! Winning!!
No this wasn’t a distraction from the Epstien files, its been a long term republican goal. They’ve been trying to do a war with Iran since before the war with Iraq
The only response he ever gives is “it’s worth it so Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon”. He probably isn’t even aware in his demented brain that… we already had that, nor that his and Biden’s handling of the economy these last six years has increased people’s poverty exponentially.
It was an “inexpensive price to pay” to let Iranians have their own unfrozen assets back in return for de-nuclearizing.
“it’s worth it so Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon”.
Trump is the one who withdrew the US’s involvement from the Iran Nuclear Deal, which specifically prevented them from building nuclear weapons.
The irony of the US constantly justifying it’s actions in dysregulating the middle east is nuclear arms when the US has some of the most nuclear arms and is one of the last countries on earth that should
And even worse, we only really oppose nuclear proliferation because for other countries to have nukes would decrease the value of our bully pulpit. North Korea has demonstrated that nukes are now essential if a country wants to be left alone.
Well, he and other rich cronies are getting richer! Ummm…. And let’s seeeeeee…… uhhhhhhhhhh distraction forom the plundering, Epstein, the continued slide to fascism.
Tremendous war, everyone is saying it!
A lot of idiots will still believe the Republicans are “good at the economy”.
True, but given the GOP’s election losses in 2025 and 2026, not enough of them.
Not that it matters. Democrats won’t do anything about affordability either.
Not that it matters. Democrats won’t do anything about affordability either.
Yeah, the Democrats are a mix of assholes, ghouls, spineless jellyfish, and maybe some decent folks. It’s sad that that’s the best mainstream option, but I’d rather work with them than the frothing nightmares of the Republican party.
There’s no good way out of this hell. But at least some socialists have won some elections
I think we’re at the stage where we need a consitutional convention between states or just violence… like make the politicians scared to do ethical breaches.
It’s time for there to be 4 separate countries that each do thing their own way.
4 little americas, ya… who gets the nukes??
Same as USSR. They stay where they were.
You know who likes the idea of 4 little Americas?? META, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN. That’s who will be buying the debt and dissolving the union.
That’s…. Not how the USSR worked at all. There’s a whole war in Ukraine right now that’s based on Ukraine giving nukes away due to security promises America failed to fulfill.
Do you know where the nukes are now? Do you think that the Confederate states of America might try to you know…… do the thing again??
You mean the war trump unilaterally started to deflect from his pervert degeneracy? That war?
The kind of war of aggression we had the Nuremberg trials over? That war?
Says the guy who travels to his plane in a motorcade a dozen vehicles long without paying for a single litre of fuel.
America never used the litre [sic]. It used to use gallons for gasoline prices, but a recent Presidential decree renamed those to Americans.
Renamed what? The unit of measurement?
If you actually believe that then have the government subsidize the price difference at the pump? Oh what’s this, you mean its inexpensive because you dont have to pay it? That’s on brand.
I think they’re already subsidizing it as much as they can and it’s still this expensive - oil companies get direct subsidies, we’ve been dipping into the national reserve and they approved adding more ethanol to the gas to bring prices down and sacrifice our fuel economy and add wear to our engines.
You could give me $100,000 and I’d say fuck off with your fucking war.
What’s old is new again.
A mere three years later we’re being gaslit by a president with an evidently broken brain, who is clearly too old to be a functional head of state, and he’s gaslighting us on the economy as if we don’t have to open our own bills and do our own grocery shopping.
The only thing that’s changed is the centrists are now pretending to care about affordability, where three years ago they were the ones telling us that things were just fine, even though our collective experience was that we were in a cost of living crisis. The shred of support Donald still possesses is insisting the same, though it’s clear the crossover voters he gained in 2024 by pretending to care about affordability have been lost.
I wish I could get off this runaway train. Let’s hope the dozen or so DSA’s get elected and start some serious shit in Congress.
trump says “but my cronies are making bank!”
Kind of a bummer that I can’t get in on those insider trading Signal chats he has.
Well, from his POV no price is expensive if he’s not the one paying it.
Then he can pay for it with his money and his life. Shame he included his kids in his child sex trafficking operation, and his political career. They’ll also need to be executed
If it’s that small a price, he can pay it.
Do you see it yet, Magas? Do you?
Nah. They’re too busy blaming Democrats and The Woke™
See what? That he’s a lying sack of shit that never intended to get them anything they wanted, or even ensure what they need?
