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.
But we don’t even want the Iran war.
Inexpensive? It was 2.19 in my town when he took office this time around. It’s now 4.12. that’s nearly a 100% increase.
Yup, and for a guy that got elected on affordability promises, his dementia has really made it difficult for him to understand how insane he sounds.
Pentagon has said this war has cost over $45 B, and what have we got out of it?
It’s made some other people richer, that’s all they care about
yup, I believe that’s the sole focus of this admin., get themselves and sycophants richer by any means, and congress and scotus have green lit the efforts
$45B was just the military cost. US spend an extra $100B on gas.
You cannot let Iran have nukes. That’s it. That’s their spin on it.
$45B is a gross understatement, but paying $5b to Iran would go a long way to ending any nuclear program.
is it ok to call the pedo epstein elite class pedo epstein elite class here? was banned on multiple social media sites for calling the elites that own the social media platforms out.
If in doubt, just stick to ‘Epstein Class’. The pedo affiliation is implied.
thanks but calling them facts is now banned by multiple large social media platforms its sickening. especially the ones that are larger corporations now its so obvious too our first amendment rights are being restricted using loopholes by the epstein class and ai bots in general fake engagement bots reports by bots used by ai to block real users.
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.
Yeah I feel like a lot of your current problems are because the Union didn’t hang/shoot more Confederates and make the South understand that they, in fact, lost the civil war.
Don’t blame Sherman, he wanted what you want. It was Lincoln who stopped Sherman’s good work.
No new wars btw
A smooth line when you aren’t paying for it.
Only 19.5 years left to go. Count your pennies.
What
Probably what’s going on in his mind: “What could a gallon of gas cost? $40? What are they complaining about?”
Peak oil = peak chud.
Up! Up! Up! Up!
So theft, fraud, corruption, incompetence, pedophilia, all ok with America. It all comes down to gas prices.
In fact, no.
If the several assassination attempts haven’t demonstrated it, or the several socialist candidates that have become electable, then consider the fact that the simple sabotage that took place in LA, Chicago, Portland, and Minneapolis earlier this year forced Donald to fire ICE’s leadership and reconsider their Gestapo tactics.
As for gas prices, Donald was elected largely for promising to address affordability, so yes, there is going to be a significant amount of anger that he has not only failed to do so, but launched a war that exacerbated the poverty already rampant here in the US.
several assassination attempts
one. if it even really happened. Broadway wasn’t even this staged.
forced Donald to fire ICE’s leadership and reconsider their Gestapo tactics.
LOL. Then this happened , today.
So yeah, Americans only give a shit about gas prices.
one
Factually incorrect.
LOL. Then this happened , today.
I’m aware. Resisting fascism is a process, and one that we in the US have to navigate very carefully thanks to the Insurrection Act. (Among other things.) As one of the seven people in the US who was against the War on Terror from the start, I agree that the long road it’s taken for Americans to get to this point is pretty shameful.
And I see you just kinda ignored the other points, but that’s okay. Clearly you’re operating on confirmation bias.
oh, don’t kid yourself. they’re mostly still gonna vote for magats, cuz the ‘right people’ are getting hurt worse and more frequently. hate will overrule their wallet.
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 with 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!
Don’t you like converting your tax dollars into killing brown people across the world?? Someone has too right? We’ve been at it my whole life.
“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
A $300/ton CO2 tax (paid as dividend to residents) is $3/gallon gasoline. It doesn’t get to your $100/gallon target, but it does bring CO2 air capture technology into play. accelerates EVs/emobility, makes green H2 competitive for those who need to refuel often and aviation/heavy shipping. Obviously solar/wind are that much more economically obvious.
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.
Edit: since I can see the grid through the data, I’d imagine the regions have had their opacity reduced.
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
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??
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?
Yea liters are now Americas and Meters are now Americas. Grams? You mean Americas.
Results are back, you are HIV America.
Fuck it. Let’s embrace this and rename everything America. Then you can America your America while you America in your American America. murica. Amirite?
