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2022-03-09 Economy

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Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 As planned. The poorer we are, the easier we are to control.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-09 05:34|| 2022-03-09 05:34|| Front Page Top

#2 So, if we allow Texas to succeed from the union (again), we can then buy their oil without any limitations to their drilling because then it would be foreign oil?

Texas Dems to Biden: Drill, baby, drill

In the post Civil War ear when the Donks got ahold of Congress they refused to fund the Army. Well, till the Apache went on a rampage from Mexico into Texas. Seems the Texas Democrats adhered to the concept of 'all politics is local' and the Army got funding.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-09 07:12|| 2022-03-09 07:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Already succeeding
Not (yet) seceding

Posted by Bob Hatfield4810 2022-03-09 07:17|| 2022-03-09 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I stand corrected :)

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-09 07:28|| 2022-03-09 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Seize the criminal oligarchs' fortunes!

Posted by Angurt Darling of the Antelope6530 2022-03-09 07:30|| 2022-03-09 07:30|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ you mean these oligarchs, right?

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Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 07:31|| 2022-03-09 07:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Sundance gets it. The Ukraine Shitshow is just another elite botch job aimed at asserting control.

The economic consequences from climate change policy were always considered the biggest hurdle. The pain that would be felt by the working class folks, would need to be managed. This is the reason why false justifications for economic pain are collectively pushed by media.

As a result, the domestic political elites are managing the pitchforks by distracting voters about the cause. If you do not buy into their obtuse justifications, well, you then become a target – ergo, a conspiracy theorist.

Climate change policy is a tool, a means to an end.

COVID-19 policy is a tool, a means to an end.

Russia-Ukraine policy becomes a tool, a means to an end.

Behind all the layers of obfuscation, you find all the individual roadmaps converge onto a single path that leads to centralized control.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 08:05|| 2022-03-09 08:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Why does the President get to determine the amount of drilling done by private companies? When will congress step in and reverse this action as every seat in the House is on the ballot with this gas price attached.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-09 08:28|| 2022-03-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Why does the President get to determine the amount of drilling done by private companies?

If its on public land. Unlike east of the Mississippi, most of the large states west of the river were never given a lot of the land from the national government holdings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-09 09:02|| 2022-03-09 09:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Not just gas... now the price of lithium triples. Say goodbye to your next electric vehicle.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-09 09:29|| 2022-03-09 09:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Radio hype said it is those mean 'ol other countries not even answering Uncle Joey's phone calls.

It is a bit interesting - taking a bouncy house level peaceful protest, throwing it in the grinder, and ending up with the largest economic warhammer history, doing the cock walk to get what they want, you'd think countries and organizations would just fall in line, yet there are more than a few instances of nah, not interested.

Makes me wonder how cheap the veneer is.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 10:23|| 2022-03-09 10:23|| Front Page Top

#12

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Posted by Glomoque Guelph1253 2022-03-09 11:40|| 2022-03-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Ref #11: Radio hype said it is those mean 'ol other countries not even answering Uncle Joey's phone calls.

Who can blame them.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-09 11:44|| 2022-03-09 11:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I about started laughing.

"Dem dang'ed ol rude furrners hiz why I gotsa go a-ponderin' US pro-duck-shun."

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 12:57|| 2022-03-09 12:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Blame the Russian trolls?

Hey, if you can blame the unvaxxed for Pfizer's side effects and schoolgirls' parents for trans-gender rapists, why not?

Better... blame T-R-U-M-P!!! He's a Russian agent, right?

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 13:02|| 2022-03-09 13:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Two Dollars pump three please. Why so little?. I will move to pump four when I have enough gas to do so.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-09 13:17|| 2022-03-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#17 All at once Buttgig and The Influencers are all Go Get an Electric Car.

So weird.

"We need to burn down The House of Saud because one of our, uhem, reporters ended up dead. Tear. It. Down! Also, pretty please increase your oil production so we continue to get political support thanx."

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 14:26|| 2022-03-09 14:26|| Front Page Top

#18 All at once Buttgig and The Influencers are all Go Get an Electric Car

Have they checked the price curve for lithium today?

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 14:37|| 2022-03-09 14:37|| Front Page Top

#19 Facts, schlapps, we're virtue signalling and running code here.

But I think the short answer is no. No they wouldn't, "What does Lithium have to do with anything?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 15:35|| 2022-03-09 15:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Murphy Gas in SC is selling for 4.02 for regular up about 15 cents since last week.

The attendant said they were running low already after a tanker fill-up them up last night.

So the wife and I decided to store 50 Gals of Non-Ethanol which costs a bit more @ $4.30 a gallon.

We have done this before, during the run-up to the Hurricane Katrina GAS shortages. We found it lasted 5 months that time without issue. We later learned a good Stabilizer would push the useable life out to a year plus.

BTW: Wally World seems to have anticipated the need for Gas Cans and is charging $21 for a 5 gal plastic jug that sold for something like $14.95 a few months ago.

So for just over $215 for the gas plus the 3x 5 gals cans we were short in having 10 ($66+). Plus multiple trips to the gas stations. All told we spent almost $300 to play LMOE.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-03-09 16:14|| 2022-03-09 16:14|| Front Page Top

#21 LMOE? Translation, please.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-09 16:55|| 2022-03-09 16:55|| Front Page Top

#22 GasBuddy Heat Map of US gas prices by zip, city, state

Posted by Whith Schwarzeneggar7950 2022-03-09 17:02|| 2022-03-09 17:02|| Front Page Top

#23 /\ Go Brandon !

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-09 17:15|| 2022-03-09 17:15|| Front Page Top

#24 What's that yellow thing, over to the left on the GasBuddy map?

Posted by Beldar Lumumba1612 2022-03-09 17:17|| 2022-03-09 17:17|| Front Page Top