CNN says the majority of people polled are fine with higher gas prices if it helps the Ukrainians’ fight against Russia. Are you ok with this? Why or why not?
If you’re not ok with it, do you still think we should buy oil and help Russia fund it’s invasion? Do you have a better solution? What should the U.S. do?
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I think we should just follow the wise words of Kneepads Harris.
This woman talks in circles and her hands are more active that SanFranNan’s.
The hands… That’s because she’s used to doing something else with them… ‘Same thing with her lips…
To bad Professor Irwin Corey is gone. He could interpret.
our department of energy czar could be Putin’s dog. whistling–here boy,, good boy!
PS I actually listened to Harris’s speech above, before I had only seen her not heard her, the woman is a f’g idiot..
I saw Da Ho talking this morning. Not sure what the fuck she said …. I had a hard time getting past that cock-gobbler’s neck …
Are we 100% positive she is not a he???
Bob P refers to her as Dick Gobbler and I concur. Of course, he calls her VP and I cannot bring myself to use that term when referring to her, but I will talk about VP Biden, the current resident of 1600 PA Ave.
That ain’t no woman, baby.
That’s a MAN….
whoever is loading her teleprompter…is a Genius! Clearly someone under extreme duress, similar to the vaunted eye-blink Morse code of the Vietnam Era?
People are beginning to think she is stoned all the time. Probably edibles. Not kidding. This is the second person who has brought this up in the past week.
I concur
Do you think she only got into college/law school based on race and gender? Just listening to her, I cannot imagine her being able to get a high enough score on the LSAT to qualify.
Very possibly. Some people test well but are terrible at everything else.
I was always good on tests, but I absorbed information like a sponge. Multiple choice was like shooting ducks in a barrel.
But you are good at other things, too. Like critical thinking? Some people are not so good on tests but are still very smart. Tests are just a way to regurgitate what you memorized and then you can forget everything you learned.
I’m sorry. I can’t listen to this woman for 30 seconds without bursting into laughter, followed by a deep sense of impending doom, which only brings about more laughter. Thank you Jesus.
It’s important to remember that the pharmacy in DC that all the gov-bots use dispenses incredible amounts of psych drugs, tranquilizers, and other mind-numbing substances to these suicidal Nazi Zionistas, just to keep their heads from exploding due to cognitive dissonance and other ill effects of having to exit reality in order to show up at the office.
Not to mention all the booze and cocaine that is consumed after hours.
There is a fair amount of journalistic documentation of this dispensary available, or used to be at any rate.
It should not be a surprise, in light of this, that a person who maybe used to be a state atty general becomes a total mush-brain when they get to DC.
“Things don’t be like you thinks they is but they do….”
And that’s all I have to say about that…
To even ask this question…I thought this was a conservative site??? 😉
Ok, now my answer. “Drill baby, drill!”. Open up Keystone, rubber stamp all the new leases to where the oil is and NOT THE 9,000 leases that are out there on EMPTY WELLS, Psaki, you red-headed wench!
The ‘Ho’ is good at being drilled!
????? You think there’s a chance in gomorrah the gas price rise is for ‘helping Ukraine’ ?????
????? Let alone because CNN said so?????!!!!!
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Exactly!
There is ZERO connection between “helping Ukraine”
And us paying amazingly high prices for gas.
High gas is from The Manchurian Moron’s energy
policy and The Fed flooding the economy with worthless
fiat money.
FJB.
You my hero.
HE** NO, I am not for higher gas prices to help Ukraine. A year ago it cost $22 to fill up my wife’s car and now it is approaching $50.
BTW – There is a limited amount of oil on the world market. If we quit buying Russian oil, we will buy oil from some other exporter and Russia will export their oil to someone else. The solution is Drill Baby Drill!
How many Billion$ has Brandon put into the pocket of OPEC and Russia with his ignorant executive actions against domestic oil? Trump was not good on a lot of things, but on oil he kept the price down by not attacking the oil patch.
You’re right – this is not helping or hurting Ukraine. Reminds me of a time long ago when we stopped buying bananas from some Central or South American country to protest something or other, so we only bought them from Canada.
On another note – Trump was only wrong on the Covid debacle; pushing the vaccine and not firing Fauci.
Surrounding himself with deep stater’s, relying on Ivanka and Jared too much, not pardoning Snowden & Asange and most importantly not fighting the stolen election with every tool he had.
The new coming-soon-near-you law…
Everyone knows what “DWI” means….well, now it will be…
“WWI”, Walking-While-Impaired, and in conjunction with any open container laws, will be a double whammy while walking back from the beer-mart. If the Law decides to sic you….
However, on the plus side, it will mean a lot more exercise, cuz by the time you get home from walking to the store for your beer/liquor, you’ll have drank it all on the way home, and it will be time to turn back around and walk back for more.
For a fitter, drunker Nation, Vote Demo(ni)crat!!
Yes, I support Ukraine ya fukers!
I am going to buy an electric car. Actually, really, a couple hundred. This one …
I am going to build a plywood platform and hook 218 of these together in parallel. My maff tells me The Electra-Stuck will top out at 137mph, and about 700 miles between recharging, which will only take 15 minutes.
If that doesn’t work out I’m buying the new VW electric mini-bus.
Stuicky- How long would 12.5 million barrels of oil last in the US?
Less than a day, and I didn’t even have to look it up.
I’ll help you out, it’s an average of 19.7 million barrels per day. We imported 12.5 million barrels of oil from Russia for the ENTIRE MONTH of December 2021. We never import more than one and a half days worth of oil in any given month from Russia. My figures came from official eia.gov
Where’s the beef?
The beef is that it isn’t a very elastic commodity, and changes in supply can result in a disproportionate change in price until it finds a new equilibrium which in our case will be substantially higher.
The other thing is that crude oil isn’t fungible. Refineries are designed and optimized to process certain types. In this case without russian crude many gulf coast refineries will not be able to operate anywhere near full capacity, and it doesn’t matter how much fracking happens when refineries cannot process it; hence, the desperate calls to venezuala.
Anon-That is complete crap, bring some proof or I am calling BS on that info.
It’s true Bl. Sorry buddy. This is why they are suddenly visiting Maduro wearing kneepads. Not all gulf refineries are geared to Russian crude but a great many are. We used to get it from Venezuela and Iran so we started buying Russian heavy to substitute.
These heavy crudes yield less gasoline and more diesel fuel.
Quality
Crude oil is not a homogenous product. The U.S. continues to import and export crude oil because the viscosity of oil (measured by its API gravity) being light or heavy and its sulfur content being low (sweet) or high (sour) largely determine the processes needed to refine it into fuel and other products. In general, refineries match their processing capabilities with types of crude oils from around the world that enable them to:
https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/blog/2018/06/14/why-the-us-must-import-and-export-oil
Flea- Somebody is having their way with the truff. Canada and Venezuela are two of the best producers of heavy oil, we actually have heavy oil throughout N.A.
Nothing pushes buyers to electric cars like high prices at the pump. Research what you think you posted as fact. Read section 6 for info on heavy oil/sources.(Chemical Properties)
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_crude_oil
Also, here is the breakdown from where the US imports most of it’s oil:
Canada 61%
Mexico 11%
Saudi Arabia 8%
Columbia 4%
Most of our oil comes from Canada and Canada has heavy oil.
*** Got to get the sheep into those electric cars****
Canada is 51% but you are confusing the point. we exported 43 million to Mexico while importing 41 so numbers are misleading. Also, I told you right off venezuela has heavy crude.
The refineries mentioned are geared for a certain kind of heavy oil and to transport canadian oil sands heavy all the way to the gulf to supply those refineries is difficult due to it being so thick.
Why would we be blowing maduro to get him to sell us oil again if we could just buy it from mexico or canada. We export big dollars in refined products like gasoline which if we stopped an enemy could step in to fill the need. We must need a compatible type of heavy found only in certain places.
Regarding the electric car theory, I don’t agree. We will soon be too poor to drive anything not self propelled.
Here is every import/export piece of data you could ever use in a lifetime.
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/data.php
In the end you will see that this is to get rid of gas powered vehicles. Any type of heavy oil needed is found in N.A,
Based on the WWG1WGA maff, that unit must obviously be capable of 137 mph. Platform mounting/clearances looks to be problematic. ‘Series’ connection may be helpful, but then heat dissipation/ bearing rating may become an issue as well. Steering? Not horsing around, but I believe a ‘hand’ = 4″…so a skateboard configuration, 72’8″ long could allow you to ‘lean’ into the turns. Unsure of the ‘G’ loads, maybe one of the ‘New and Improved’ Maternity flight suits would help, and also provide ‘Batteries on board’ storage. Solar panels covering every inch of your body on all sides may prove beneficial in more ways than one, don’t believe the amorphous panels reach ignition teperature under abrasion conditions but some things are best determined empirically…Trial and Error. Also, they have been working tirelessly, money no object, to increase solar panel efficacy. 20% or thereabouts last time i checked.
For the betterment of all Mankind, please wear a GoPro® for the U tube video, even if it’s just the one time. ‘Ranking’ should be #1 for the foreseeable future.
I admire your ‘can do, spirit and Yankee ingenuity, hallmark of the American Way©.
And of course it goes without saying, Good Luck
You, sir, are taking me waaaay too seriously! hahaha 🙂
Nevertheless, I really do appreciate your technical assistance!! Awesome, man. If my little venture takes off as planned, I am making you Chief of Worldwide Engineering.
Better to laugh than cry.
Just watch out for the fires that might break out, and please have a concealed carry fire extinguisher with you at all times….
Bullshit. The only thing electric Stuck uses is one of those vibrating rubber vaginas. And he would get a gas version of that if they made ‘em.
On a more serious note … as if this question ought to be taken seriously here on TBP …
Here are the number of Ukrainians who have cared about my problems, and who have made sacrifices to help me out over the years when I really needed it —–> A BIG FAT ZERO
As such, as well as keeping with the God-given principle of tit-for-tat, eye for an eye …. I don’t give a flying fucking rat’s ass about supporting the Ukies. Let ’em eat cake!!
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On another topic … what the fuck and why the fuck are Ukie PMs appearing on every damned news show, and even talk shows??? Quit flapping your gums, quit begging for shit, and go kill a Russian you brave-ass sumvabitch!! ZFG!!
We just need to herd up all the fucken commie fucks into a giant hole and bury them so we can have more oil in a million years.
Drill the fuck out of it John Holmes style.
What is this Ukraine thing you speak of? Does it give us sustenance? If not then burn it.
ZFG, out.
P.S. no, the Ukrainian womenz are not worth a world war either lmao.
That would include over 90% of Congress.
Let’s get busy digging.
Pulled up my Shell Fleet statement (3 vehicles…heh), and I paid $2.88 for diesel in late January. Same station yesterday, $5.19. I have to drive to Charlotte almost every week, which is a 500 mi round trip w/ local driving. At 31 mpg, that’s an additional $37-38/trip.
So, contributed to inflation by adding $45 minimum to every invoice.
FJB.
The Biden Residency has been the best thing that ever happened for Russian Oil, so how exactly does this help the Ukraine?
Even if the Russians have to discount a little for current cash, they will still get far more for their oil than a year ago…and all their gas contracts will be renegotiated after the Ukro-nazis surrender…
Make sure your gas tank is locked. Soon stealing gas (and anything else that doesn’t move fast) will be the new normal.
I’m not happy with anything going up in price to help out Ukraine. I am not happy with helping out Ukraine (other than publicly stating that there is no way in hell they will ever join NATO, or voluntary contributions as always). Even better would be for the US to pull out of NATO and make it all very clear.
I’m sorry … I must have slept in during the early innings of life … but just how do our outrageously high gas prices (a) have anything to do with Ukraine (I seem to recall that Joe Bidet cancelled the XL Pipeline his first EO) and (b) how do they ‘support’ Ukrainian interests?
If that snarky j a p Vic Nuland had kept herself back in israel or somewhere out of our way in ’14, Ukraine would likely still have a democratically-elected government instead of the jews in control of it today … and our CIA and its minions would have likely kept busy fomenting discontent somewhere else for the past 8 years.
By the way — gas prices at my local Costco have gone up almost 80¢ in just 6 days …
Time to send Joe Bidet about 81,000,000 ‘thank you’ notes …
Putin has a market for his oil. This is all BS and not hurting him one damn bit. More destruction of our economy, country and way of life and them trying to create a boogeyman so they aren’t the ones blamed. I can tell by all the masks I still see that unfortunately many will buy this bullshit.
Not buying oil from Russia to “help Ukraine” is a poster child for cutting off your nose to spite your face. Russia will just find other buyers for that oil, while the American consumer just gets screwed.
I don’t think this has anything to do at all with Ukraine. It has everything to do with the chickens of Biden’s retarded energy policies and the two years of Monopoly money printing coming home to roost. Ukraine is nothing more that a convenient fall guy.
Solution; give Trump back the presidency that was stolen from him so he can get us beck to where we were before the senile arrogant asshole took office…
“Solution; give Trump back the presidency that was stolen from him so he can get us back to where we were before the senile arrogant asshole took office…”
Omigawd. Sarcasm, right?
Heh, heh, heh….all the little TDS Trump bashers have gotten REAL quite of late…Wonder why? Stolen elections have consequences and the senile pedo and the cackling whore’s handlers are going warp speed balls deep into completely destroying the country. Got gas? Hows about WWIII? Inflation? It’s all Russia, Russia, Russia’s fault and anyone who STILL wears a face mask is BEYOND stupid and probably voted for Dipshit the Obama clone.
High gas prices are a good thing. I hope they double from here. The only way the idiot masses will get their fat asses off their couches and actually do something, is when the pain becomes more than they can take. Maybe, just maybe, if gas goes to $10 and bread goes to $15 the dumb shit democrats will wake up and realize that there is such a thing as cause and effect, and that stupid actions have bad consequences. Maybe the reality of a little hardship is just what this country needs to pull its collective heads out of its collective asses.
Jdog – you give the great masses a lot of credit where none is due. Media will tell them it is all Putin’s fault and they will beg him to nuke Russia.
When the store shelves are empty and they cannot get their beer, cokes & chips is when they will say something.
I was accused of that very same thing yesterday by my left handed brother, Fleabaggs. Some day I will learn that “the peoples is stoopid” I’m paraphrasing.
Nay, they will just kick the dog, bitch and turn the game on. If it really grinds on the they will up the amount of Tums they take.
You are asking a lot my friend! Turn the game off? No pizza? The proles just ain’t wired that way.
Won’t work like that. A wokie cannot think and only feels. The cause of anything only causes a wokie to employ wokism, which is absolute focus on results not causes. Thinking would be the abandonment of principle. Then by focusing on results the cause can be divorced from reality so that anything and everything can be implemented if that results in feelings being assuaged or even elevated. This simplifies life and feels nice.
Dreamer.
Where’s Ukraine?
Our real enemies are in power.
The Trucker Convoy, I wish were tanks and halftracks.
Hell, I’m OK with gas prices going up to help Iran and Venezuela!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/putin_snickers_guess_who_owns_a_big_chunk_of_venezuelas_oil.html
Our elites do not want info on what is really going on in the Ukraine to get out. Russia is doing us (citizens) a favor.
Eliminating the corruption in the Ukraine helps the typical citizen of this planet, since it has spread throughout the world. And it is supported by our (US) tax money.
Jut my $0.02.
Unfortunately its only getting out to the folks who already knew of the Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden mass corruption and money-laundering schemes.
What a shame. California gets just what it wanted.
Personally I think they could use a little more of what they wanted… be generous for once…
Cry me a river you stupid bastards.
Fuck CBS, fuck Hollywood, Fuck West L.A., and Fuck Joe Biden.
They can all sit around Leslie Stahl and have a circle jerk.
How they gonna fuck all that way with limp dicks?
No, I’m not OK with higher gas prices. I don’t see how it helps Ukraine, but that doesn’t matter, Americans looking out for what’s in the best interests of other Americans is what matters. High fuel costs raise the price of everything else. Help your fellow American, not Ukraine.
Didn’t this question just get asked?
The point is to make us stop driving. they don’t want us to leave our houses. They want us in front of the TV and stoopid. Oh and starving, too.
Since I’m always wrong when I make a prediction, I will go out on a limb and predict that gas prices will never go down to something we can live with like $3 or less again. Let’s hope I am wrong. But I fear I’m right this time.
^^^ First sentence…Bingo.
M C – back in the days of the oil embargo (74 – 75), I never thought I would see gas prices below $1 again, but along came president peanut and his insane policies and sure enough, just after he left office, I took a picture of a gas station with gas at $.999. Never underestimate what a serious recession can do for the price of commodities when the demand is gone.
Did they have those self-service pumps in the middle of nowhere you could put dollar bills in?
I never ran across one of them. I did used to pass by a station that had the glass cylinder on top that you would fill with a pump to the desired # of gallons and then dispense through the hose. the station closed and the pumps were gone within a couple of days.
Yep, I remember. But if they want us to stop driving they will never let the price of gas go down again. We shall see. I’d be happy to be wrong about that.
I’m just wondering about all those people who bought big trucks so they could haul RV’s or bought the big bus type RV’s, all on credit. Ya think they will be traveling very far? I believe you get about 4mpg’s on the older ones, maybe newer ones do a bit better.
The point is to make us stop driving.
It’s always about the outcome, never about the explanation.
Good call.
FUCK Ukraine and the mother fuckers who are war mongering. On that note, going out to start training our morgan horse to tow a cart. She is a good riding horse so I hope she adapts well. Yes it is getting to that point….
Good thinking.
Somehow, we get the truckers that deliver fuel to gas stations to go on strike for 2-3 weeks and force DC to open Anwar, keystone, etc. See how fast Biden succumbs to that kind of pressure.
Is this a serious question?
Hell no I’m not fine with it. All the increase so far has just been Biden’s background inflation–you know, just day to day destruction of America. The ban on Russian oil will cause it to double again from this point. We will just call that part Bidens’ ban. Oil is a very marketable and fungible commodity so No we are not funding “Russias’ war by buying it–They’ll just sell it to someone else at the new higher price. We need to buy Russias’ oil simply because our leaders are too stupid to allow us to drill for our own
Help Ukraine? Oh please What a farce, a gaslighting of galactic proportions, the propaganda so dense it eclipses black holes. The entire thing is one massive and scripted plan to usher in Agenda 21. Problem is, the fools who actually believe in the ‘green energy’ bullshit, who are running the show, haven’t a clue about reality.
Rising gas prices will not help Ukraine.
Here is what Americans maybe can afford to drive, given all the debt they have accumulated:
Long term stupid decisions have consequences you know. Enormous debt, a huge free shit army, massive numbers of govt drones, unfunded liabilities, stupid energy policies and climate change idiots, supply chains reliant on cheap fuel, etc. were always going to lead to problems. Buy bicycle futures. I think you will see an awful lot of them on the streets.
Fourteen billion dollars going to the Ukes via Congress. Never pass up a crisis when there’s money to be made. Oh, let the kickbacks roll on. And on and on!
The U.S. oil companies have more oil than they know what to do with and are paying high fees to store it. The high prices are not due to Ukraine, but rather the U.S. oil companies are making up for the 50% decrease in revenues during the covid plandemic.
Answer to QOTD: NO!
Our gas prices going up isn’t helping Ukraine. Why can’t we just drill and reduce our dependence? Is that too tough of a question to answer?
I paid 3.699 last night which is probably cheap. Not to me. It cost 35.00 to fill up just over 1/2 tank. That isn’t much, but I have a subcompact and have never paid that much to fill an entire tank. Something more sinister this way comes.