I passed a Wawa gas station on the way to work today and diesel was $6.29 per gallon. I paid $4.49 per gallon yesterday to fill up my car. Thanks Joe.
Baltimore native Mike Rowe became famous as the Dirty Jobs jobs guy on the Discovery Channel. Now he’s filming the second season of “How America Works” on Fox Bussiness, showcasing the many individuals that work around the clock to keep the US economy humming.
During Monday’s “Fox and Friends” show, Rowe sat down with Steve Doocy to discuss out-of-control inflation. He said the tuckers he knows aren’t buying the “Putin Price Hike” narrative.
As the national average for diesel prices at the pump jump to a record high of $5.32 a gallon, Rowe said truckers are sending him pictures and videos of them filling up, spending more than a thousand dollars at a time.
“I get video almost every day now from people who we featured on ‘Dirty Jobs” and ‘How America Works.’
“They’re just sending me videos of them at the gas pump and some of them are filling up 18-wheelers. And, I’m not kidding you, $1,100, $1,200.
“Most people, all we can think about is the price for us at a relative terms know it’s awful.
“When you put $1,200 in your gas tank and just six months ago it was costing you $600 or 700, the exponential reality of it is starting to sink in. You just can’t walk that back. It touches every single thing that matters in this country. From food production to transportation … all of it,” Rowe explained.
Doocy then asked: “Are truckers buying the ‘Putin Price Hike’?”
Rowe responded by saying, “The ones I know aren’t… A guy said to me the other day, it’s like … falling down the stairs in slow motion. We’re watching it happen. It’s happening in real-time, and it’s not just diesel. It’s not just gasoline …”
He then explains that the rising cost of energy and fertilizer has resulted in higher food prices.
“But you have to talk about fertilizer too. … There’s no food without fertilizer in this country. The cost of fertilizer is hundreds, hundreds of percent higher than it was. When you combine that with the cost of energy, the average person has now really gotten the memo, but not from the gas pump, from a restaurant, a steak. The cost of a steak is almost two times what it was six, seven months ago.”
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has launched an information war against the American people to persuade them President Putin was responsible for inflation.
However, most people aren’t buying the Biden narrative. A new Rasmussen poll revealed, “76% of Republicans think Biden bears most responsibility for higher fuel prices, as do 24% of Democrats and 54% of voters not affiliated with either major party.”
With a little more than six months to the midterm elections, the Biden administration has yet to convince the American people that Putin is responsible for the highest inflation in four decades — this could prove disastrous for Democrats come November.
In March, a Quinnipiac University poll revealed that more Americans blame Biden than the Ukraine invasion or corporate greed for the rise in fuel prices.
Americans understand inflation was ripping higher well before the Ukraine conflict. The Biden got desperate last week by having the Department of Homeland Security announce the creation of the “Disinformation Governance Board” to control narratives combat whatever they deem ‘misinformation’ ahead of the midterm elections.
And when did the vast majority of this inflation occur? Pre-Ukraine. Hard to dispute that.
Watch Mike Rowe’s full interview here.
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Found this,
Preen
April 30th, 2022
Musk tweeted:
“The far left hates everyone, themselves included!”
Now where did you first hear the meme “The left hates everyone, themselves included”?
And now everyone is saying it.
And people who are repeating Musk are also talking about a far left minority moving into everything and taking over, exercising terrifying power wildly disproportionate to their actual support. They are saying “paper tiger”.
What happened to the Canadian trucker protesters and the Jan 6 protesters, however, demonstrates that this minority can only be removed by organized violence, and those saying “paper tiger” are still, for the most part, suffering normality bias. But if one meme penetrates, the next will eventually penetrate also.
https://blog.reaction.la/
Hungry people are easier to control.
Almost as easy to control as people that are (made to be) afraid constantly … like of a flu, for example …that has a 99% survival rate for all but the very elderly and those with multiple comorbidities …
hungry AND immobile
Well, it is sort of obvious in that diesel was going up before the Ukraine action.
Truckers have been maligned for decades just like all the other “dirty jobs” that keep a society running. Our masters on the left will soon find that truckers and other deplorables not only have the best work ethics now available, but their intelligence now exceeds that of most college degreed liberal sheeple.
How many truck drivers believe a man can give birth as an example? Piglosi issued a statement today about how the Supreme Court draft ruling is somehow flawed and evil because it failed to mention pregnant men. I shit you not.
Not when they plan on cheating again via “mail-in ballots” after the latest “variant” rears its head in late summer…
They’re hoping the latest ‘variant’ will do well enough for them … the ‘End of Roe v. Wade’ variant …
That should produce enough rioting, looting, burning, violence and killing to make the aftermath of Boy George’s death due to an OD look like a family gathering at Thanksgiving …
Thanks to the Precinct Strategy there will be a whole lot of people watching and recording every single move.
If you missed the spring committeemen elections, they are recruiting poll watchers now.
The bulk of the American people are low IQ idiots that don’t see what is happening in front of them. They only care about themselves and never see the big picture. Had a cousin tell me the other day that he doesn’t care about the price of diesel because he has a gas car. He was overjoyed to see the price of gas come down 10 cents, yet diesel went up over a dollar. That level of mentality is how the majority of Americans think. Then in a month or so when everything doubles in price, they will bitch about it. Clearly they are that ignorant that diesel is the lifeblood of everything they own and eat. Diesel for tractors, diesel for trains, and diesel for trucks.
I have been toying with the idea of getting a Mercedes Sprinter van. The cargo area is bigger than my trailer and could haul sofas or large beds or a lawn tractor or even a side by side without any problem. Pop the seats in and haul the whole dang tribe wherever we might want to go. You can even get four wheel drive.
Right now they are near impossible to get and most models run on DIESEL.
You saw the poll showed only 24% of Democrats blame Biden, so yes 76% of Democrats are both selfish and stupid. None of the conservatives I’ve spoken with believe the administration’s story. All understand that the cost for trucks to operate on the superhighways is going directly into food costs in the supermarkets. So-called liberals, though, are only liberal in their willingness to accept the Democrat party line. Putin’s fault, even though the time line clearly makes that impossible. College loan forgiveness, even though recent history shows that will make inflation worse, and create a whole new welfare class, AND is the most unfair handout in recent American history (OK, the PPP comes close!)
Now Roe v Wade. Just to prove that Democrat voters should not be allowed to procreate, much less vote, the Dems have made a major issue of abortion rights being made a state law matter rather than federal law. Yes, Winchester, Americans–at least Democrats–do care only for themselves, and are painfully ignorant of how anything works. Remember, 2/3 of Democrat voters are on some kind of welfare, many are multi-generationals totally living off taxpayers. A lot of the others are the ones who spent six years getting useless four year degrees and were unaware of how LOANS work, and that they are different from grants (at least they used to be!)
Winchester, I’m afraid we may be approaching the time when your username may be the only solution.
You are correct. Funny thing about the Roe v. Wade is that it won’t change anything. The low IQ college idiots don’t care and they are being fired up on purpose. I once argued with one regarding Roe v. Wade. I told them scrapping Roe v. Wade would be good, but not for reasons to do with abortions. I said it was good for the states as specified in the 10th Amendment, that it was important for the states to create their own laws and for the federal government to leave them be. The states that implemented their own abortion laws would see no affect from scrapping Roe v. Wade. Yet here we are divided again over bullshit. Then again, it is an election year and what better way to rouse the voters than talk about abortion.
I am looking forward to using my Winchesters!
I worked in the offshore oilfield drilling industry for 45 years. Years ago we had a saying for all the protesters “Let ’em freeze to death in the dark.” Guess we could change that today to “let ’em starve to death in the cold.” Stupid bastards are clueless where shit comes from.
The level of economic illiteracy in this country
is appalling and that is by design. It isn’t taught at all.
If people had an understanding of basic economics,
they would see how fully corrupt their government/ banking
system truly is.
Can’t have that.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.
Don’t forget, too, that going into Memorial Day weekend there’s always a spate of oil refinery explosions and fires and such … although this year they may have changed the game to target food growing and processing plants instead …
Wait for it, though … it’s coming at US …
I have no info on the first plane crash into a food processor but the second one a week or two ago they found no bodies. Drone attacks?
I wonder what would happen if a drone were sucked into an engine of Pelosi’s taxpayer-owned G5 on the way to, or right over, San Francisco. Asking for a friend. 🙂
I had a friend wondering the same thing. She also was very concerned some evil doer might fly a drone trailing a couple of hundred feet of wire near a helicopter.
It was 5.29 last Tuesday. Since then it’s gone up every day. Sometimes twice a day at a few stations. Now 6.49 at most. Two are holding out as “bargains” at 5.89. That’s something I’ve noticed about diesel prices, stations just a few miles apart can be vastly different in price.
Thankfully I only need to fill up 1x per month. This isn’t sustainable and I can’t see diesel prices, or the economy, lasting through summer.
Where I live there are two oil terminals about an hour each in different directions. They have different prices. Two stations next to each other can have deliveries from different terminals. In addition, higher quality fuels contain more additives which are added to generic fuel at the terminals. The cheaper guy may be trying to drive traffic or is using the generic fuel without additives.
In my town two convenience store 1 mile apart owned by the same company have twenty five cent difference in gas price almost all the time.
I heard the same from my neighbor a couple days ago. He knows a trucker that hit $999.99 on the pump and hadn’t finished filling their tank. They are given a $1000 limit on the card at the pump, before they have to switch to another card.
A friend of mine was filling up his car (premium fuel) in an “iffy” part of town, and apparently they get enough stolen cards that a pump stops when it reaches $50. He had to use a second card to finish, too.
C’mon Mike,too afraid of pissing off the media bosses?…..really disappointed,I thought you a deeper thinker than the old left/right BS……tsk,tsk……
Natgas is up 300% since the pretender was installed. That’s really going to mess with things. $8.40 per million BTU’s. Supposedly will be close to $20 in Europe. Electricity in Euroland is 2-4 times as much as here. I think those folks may go ballistic before we do.
And the irony is that the sanctions have resulted in pricing that has allowed Russia to make the same revenue on half the volume, so therefore more profit. Well done, Brandon.
He is simply f’ing brilliant. Never having had a private sector job gives him “unique” insights.
Us oil reserves. 70 billion barrels ( that we think we can pump out of the ground )
US pumps 4 billion barrels a year.
Us runs out of oil in 17 years.
Buy a good pair of shoes.
Contrary to the thesis that the world is running out of oil, global proven reserves grew from 1.3 trillion barrels in 2000 to 1.6 trillion barrels in 2010 to 1.7 trillion barrels in 2020. Hopefully in the not too distant future the US and the world will realize that oil and natural gas will support our energy needs for the foreseeable future and simultaneously recognize that mankind and carbon dioxide emissions have no measurable impact on our planet’s thermostat.
https://www.cfact.org/2022/04/11/oil-and-gas-resources-the-realities-climate-alarm-cannot-avoid-part-one/
They haven’t figured out how to get it yet but the entire ocean floor between South America and Africa is an oil field.
How deep is the water? What about pipelines?
Your evaluation of people’s potential to learn is astounding, considering the average IQ of people the world over is declining while their influence in elections increases.
Want carbon -capture? Plant a damn tree!
There’s no money to be made planting a tree …
Just because they lie about those things does not mean they believe those things themselves.
This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How is that Build Back Better plan working out for everybody?
Joe told us this morning that he has the greatest booming economy and most jobs created in history. Oh, and you are a racist if you don’t kill babies.
He also got 81 million votes!
The most in history!
It’s a miracle!
F JB and BBB
But stocks are up big time so everything must be OK again
Until tomorrow. The Bigs are playing the pricing ying yang like a violin.
Yes diesel prices hurt but my pre DEF emissions diesel 4wd one ton turbo diesel gets almost 20 mpg empty not towing around town.
Covid and the war were created to have something to blame for the inflationary collapse other than the uniparty thieves and bankers. Sorry for repeating myself.
When I was on the road (83-04) the highest Diesel price I saw was $4.05. During that time the fuel surcharge (fuel price compensation) on a shipment was often as much as the line haul (actual shipping cost) money. Trucking companies, whether it is a Walmart truck, JB Hunt, or Allied Van Lines don’t move things for free, and EVERYTHING moves in a truck. As drivers have said for years, “If you bought it, a truck brought it”.
Conveniently, the government has some “new math” that doesn’t show the real inflation rate.
In other words, they lie.