Oil & Avg Gas $ June 2008:
•Oil: $181.58/barrel
•Gas: $4.10/gallon
Oil & Avg Gas $ Mar 2022:
•Oil: $99.76/barrel
•Gas: $4.32/gallon
If you're blaming anyone but greedy oil companies for their price gouging—you've bought into propaganda that hurts you more than anyone else.
I don’t like paying higher gas prices either but it’s incredible that people will buy GOP outrage on gas that’s $5 instead of $3.50—but then excuse GOP for keeping the min wage at $7.25 instead of $15, insulin at $1200 instead of $35, & paid leave at 0 weeks instead of 12 weeks.
Gas prices are rising at their fastest pace ever and have topped $4 for the first time since 2008.
Just a reminder that America gets 1% of its oil from Russia, while Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell profits are at their highest level in over 7 years.
@andy_dawson@ChipotleTweets Idk if Chipotle is worth fitting a revolution into my schedule vs just cutting it out all together. Being consistent is great except when the thing you're consistent with is how disappointed you leave customers
America when the pandemic started
*614 billionaires
*Billionaires worth $2.95 trillion
*Unemployment rate was 3.5%
America a year later
*719 billionaires
*Billionaires worth $4.56 trillion
*Unemployment rate was 6.1%
Don't tell me that billionaires are job creators.
@VP Meanwhile, Israel is sending military in and escalating the situation there? But Happy Eid between bomb blasts - Gotta love that undying support for Israel right about now!
We've been on lockdown for 375 days and got $3,200 of our own money back. That's $8.53 a day.
Meanwhile airlines got a $50 billion bailout and laid off 90,000 people after spending 96% of free cash on stock buybacks in the prior decade. BTW airline stocks are up 200% in a year.
To recap: a $1.9 trillion rescue plan that 60% of Republicans support received votes from 0% of Republican senators and 0% of Republican House members.
Love representative democracy.
It'd be one thing to argue for reopening businesses to full capacity, but telling everyone that masks are just suddenly no longer necessary on top of it...I can only wish so many horrible things upon this pathetic excuse for leadership.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas ended the statewide mask mandate on Tuesday and allowed businesses to open at full capacity starting next Wednesday. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” he said. https://t.co/0S3mLdNKGE
Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter I carry, is working as expected. I’m currently charging it, but once I set it down, it’ll rely solely on its solar panels. If it survives the brutally cold Martian nights, the team will attempt flight. https://t.co/8pksN06ZwP #CountdownToMars