Opinion of this comparison regarding gas prices

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Some guy from Florida drew this comparison on his Instagram profile and captioned it using the following words:

"DEMOCRATS if you want to stay in power, you BETTER DO SOMETHING"



What's your opinion on this comparison and statement? Valid or lame?

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Brandon pressed the gas prices go up button. Let's go.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I see this comparison a lot now. Seriously just asking, what is that "something" people want done? Take over the oil companies like a dictator? Magically ramp up oil production to replace that lost by Russia and supply chain issues? We live in a free market society run by supply and demand. Supply is down due to the war in Ukraine. Maybe we should demand less.
Oil companies are posting billions of dollars in profits across the board. If the uneducated think Biden can set gas prices, can he also set how much you charge per visit for one of your clients in your business? Can he set the price of a movie? Can he tell 7/11 how much to charge for a bottle of water?
Granted, Democrats are going to get the blame, but oil prices are high worldwide and there is no easy solution with the entire Russian supply cut off.
Consumerism is controlled by industry standards and supply/demand rules. Disappointing to see such a fallacy being spouted there. 😡

PS: Sorry for my "non-understandable prose"!

[Schiff for Senate]

Option 10. Gas prices are Putin's fault, not Biden's. It's because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biden has done his absolute best and he'd get flack from the right no matter what course of action he chose to take (and this WAS the best course of action to take, pretty much the only really feasible one too).

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Option 10. Gas prices are Putin's fault, not Biden's. It's because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biden has done his absolute best and he'd get flack from the right no matter what course of action he chose to take (and this WAS the best course of action to take, pretty much the only really feasible one too).

It’s amazing how people compare gas prices to when COVID was in full swing. Plus, how come that gas prices throughout the entire world are at an all-time record high while those countries aren't blaming BiDeN and the DeMoCrAtS? 😂

[HillGoose]

it would be the same if Trump was in office, everything only gets worse forever. If Trump wins in 2024 gas is still gonna get up to $8/gal in 2026, we'll be lucky if it's only that much.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Option 10. Gas prices are Putin's fault, not Biden's. It's because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biden has done his absolute best and he'd get flack from the right no matter what course of action he chose to take (and this WAS the best course of action to take, pretty much the only really feasible one too).

Last I checked, the Russians seemed to still be enthusiastic to sell their petroleum and natural gas, though?

[Santander]

Hilarious (R)

Let's Go Brandon!

[Ferguson97]

Gas prices are one of the things that effect normal, everyday Americans the most.

If it was so easy to make gas cheaper, don't you think that a President with poor approval ratings would do it if he could?

[Santander]

Gas prices are one of the things that effect normal, everyday Americans the most.

If it was so easy to make gas cheaper, don't you think that a President with poor approval ratings would do it if he could?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/consumer-expenditures/2020/home.htm

Transportation fuel was < 3% of consumer spending in 2020, and it's probably no more than 4% now. Housing or food prices are far more important than fuel. Americans just need to suck it up. There should be absolutely no government efforts to bring down the price of gas, and if anything, fuel taxes should be raised higher.

It is grotesque that Americans use having a baby (a literal baby) as an excuse to buy some gas-guzzler. This obscene excess doesn't happen in any of the many other happier and more civilized countries than the US.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Americans just need to suck it up. There should be absolutely no government efforts to bring down the price of gas, and if anything, fuel taxes should be raised higher.

Germany did the exact opposite: The government cut the energy tax for petrol and diesel, having become effective on June 1. The price-cutting lasted exactly two days; on the third day the effect lost impact. Thanks to that adverse impact we taxpayer now line the pockets of the oil industry, against which every economist had cautioned during the preliminary stages. Now the government is busily trying to undo the damage they caused owing to their quick fix. 🤬

[Santander]

This is why Democrats should stay on-message and focus on positive economic developments for the American consumer, such as the plummeting price of snow crab. As Obama said when he visited the White House, "Got a story to tell, just need to tell it."

I want food prices to go up so eating becomes a luxury and I can flaunt my lifestyle on IG and TikTok.

[Meclazine for Israel]

I filled up today.

In Australia, we are sitting on an equivalent price of USD $6.00 per gallon.

Hence it must be Biden's fault.

[Person Man]

In 2003, President Bush invaded a country where 10-15% of the global oil supply was being mined. There was a serious war. 5000 of our soldiers, several hundred thousand civilian, and 30000 insurrectionists were killed over a 7 year period. The oil supply chain was disrupted because we invaded a country that defied the international order.

In 2014, a Russian satellite, through a popular rebellion, came into our sphere of influence. The nation that was on the losing side of the change in allegiances occupied the borderlands between themselves and their former satellite. Subsequently, the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were the deciding votes in 2016 for ascendance of President Trump. Trump wanted to accommodate the aggressive Russian government by trying to make our support of this satellite as tepid as possible. That emboldened Russia and when President Trump lost, you then had an enraged Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine and in order to prevent Russia from invading all the way to Berlin, if not Warsaw, we have to suffer from global supply chains being disconnected because someone fed the bear.

It's obvious what needs to happen with the situation at hand, but we have no idea who will deliver. Biden has been excessively risk averse (though less so than most), but Trump will just let Russia do whatever they want. Appeasement doesn't work.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Atrocious comparison, just about as bad as Democrats taking credit for jobs created from this same snapshot in time when the economy disappeared.

For about a decade, the parties haven't know how to do anything other than one-up each other on "owns" that they know to be false/misleading but think will play well as propaganda for the general public's consumption to win converts - in reality, those of us in the middle cringe to be around them either one of them after seeing the disingenuous approach, but neither feels they can disarm, lest the other gets the last word.

[Pericles]

I don't get why Congress doesn't cut the gas tax, that's the usual response and it helps people out in this really tough and unusual time. It could always be a temporary cut. If highway funding is the problem, a functioning legislature would just get the funding from somewhere else.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I don't get why Congress doesn't cut the gas tax, that's the usual response and it helps people out in this really tough and unusual time. It could always be a temporary cut. If highway funding is the problem, a functioning legislature would just get the funding from somewhere else.

Germany did the exact opposite: The government cut the energy tax for petrol and diesel, having become effective on June 1. The price-cutting lasted exactly two days; on the third day the effect lost impact. Thanks to that adverse impact we taxpayer now line the pockets of the oil industry, against which every economist had cautioned during the preliminary stages. Now the government is busily trying to undo the damage they caused owing to their quick fix. 🤬

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Car juice price go up. Brandon bad. Elect red tribe.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Car juice price go up. Brandon bad. Elect red tribe.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Car juice price go up. Brandon bad. Elect red tribe.

Biden is a sacred king being sacrificed by The Supply Chain to replenish the earth mother's fertility shale oil exploitability as a solstice festival? It all makes sense now...