@CaffeinatedTXn 100%
Gas prices are annoying but really not that high relative to the season and the costs all around (which I know gas prices in part drive). But it’s supply and demand more than anything and oil is not as high as we might otherwise expect given the situation in the strait
@ChrisNoblett@ZachCostello_ And he hasn’t blown Iran to smithereens. Blew up a.m buncb of buildings, sure, but their regime is more hardline than before and now they are making life miserable for us in the strait
@RepublicTexasUS@RandyGoat If you think it was, why has not a shred of credible evidence been presented? Trump is literally on tape after laughing about the claims by the wingnuts that it was stolen.
So the stolen election was when he was president but when Biden was president it wasn’t? Makes 0 sense
@JKash000 Really doubt that retail gas companies care what Trump or another president says. They are going to charge whatever the market bears like any other for profit business.
@WilkCathy I mean nobody wants to pay more for gas but it is free capitalism at work. People pay it so they charge it. If people cut back they will lower prices but the economy is doing great so demand for gas is up.
@KurutzChar76217@MassieNation19 Oil is set by the market in a free market capitalist society. Which we are and Iran is not.
I’m sure none of us want to move to Iran for free gas.
@TBrontelli@piper4freedom How is it selfish? This is how capitalism works. You charge as much as you can until demand subsides and then you have to either cut back on drilling or cut prices . Or both. They are for profit businesses they aren’t going to charge less than they have to.
@Jorge_A_Mince@jbro_1776 This is really not about the internet. It’s about gen ai which is going to explode the need for data centers that are much bigger resource consuming and expensive than what we have today to run the internet which is not a big deal.