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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on May 11, 2021, 07:00:45 AM
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Star Member packman (13,430 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215417459
Shit- gas lines again - echoes of the 70's
Waited in line, extending out into the road, for 1/2 hr. Passed station after station with pumps closed with the yellow bag over them. I lived thru this crap before and really am too damn old to tolerate it again .
Echoes of the Carter years...
It went so very well for the Dems back then.
Star Member hlthe2b (85,443 posts)
1. Where?
Star Member DFW (42,553 posts)
2. We heard about that.
We're coming back to the USA in July. I hope this is resolved by then--and no toilet paper shortages as a consolation prize, either.
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Star Member DFW (42,553 posts)
7. I just checked the average price in our town back in Germany
It US$ per gallon, it was $6.71 when we left in mid April. It is now $7.23 per gallon.
For us, it's Euros per liter, so the exchange rate comes into play, too. It was €1.47 when we left, €1.57 now. Included in the price we pay is a tax on the tax, which you don't get hit with in the USA.
:yawn:
Star Member PortTack (18,914 posts)
5. Brought to you by your russian loving qgop and their hack of the pipeline!
Russia..helping out their friends...ppl get pissed here when gas prices rise. This is a direct shot at Biden.
:thatsright:
Star Member gldstwmn (2,217 posts)
17. Agree. They're going to do everything
they can including voter suppression again and to kick the poor in the teeth by taking their $300 a week away in states with GOP governors. In the meantime the anti vax and anti mask crowd should come to grips with the fact that they are complicit in the deaths of 600,000 of their fellow countrymen.
But if anyone can beat these bastards it's Joe. I was very hesitant about his candidacy. But I was wrong. At least I can go to sleep at night with the reasonable assumption that I will wake up tomorrow.
And yes, this whole thing has shades of what they did to President Carter.
keithsw (250 posts)
9. Our little town in Western NC
Only has 4 gas stations and they all were out of gas by noon today
Star Member hunter (32,900 posts)
10. Been there, done that. Escaped a 70's gas station riot in Los Angeles when the pumps ran dry.
Hours of my life waiting in line, wasted. Angry people were vandalizing stuff when I fled.
Fortunately I had just enough gas to get home. Next day my brother drove me to work and picked me up. He'd scored a full tank of gas.
History never repeats itself but the echoes can be just as dangerous.
Star Member MissB (14,425 posts)
13. Picking up my EV this week
Sold my gas powered car this weekend for 90% of what I paid for it (used) three years ago.
We do still have a truck but it’s our brush dump truck, or our out of town truck. Pretty low usage overall. I filled it up this morning, because the fuel light was on not because of any shortage. It should last until June.
Star Member NutmegYankee (14,861 posts)
15. It's related to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown - caused by ransomware.
The pipeline has been restarted and you should have gas with a day or so.
Interestingly, Connecticut seemed unaffected. We must get our supplies from tanker terminals on the Long Island Sound and not from the New Jersey terminus of this pipeline.
customerserviceguy (25,175 posts)
16. Yep
Happening here in coastal South Carolina. The first station we went to was out of gas, the second one had a long line for the pair of pumps that were still working. And we're talking about 10:45 on Monday night, I predict that by Wednesday, there will not be any gasoline in our area, unless this thing gets fixed.
And I lived through it, too, '73 and '79. And Hurricane Sandy while I was living in the Northeast. It's one of the reasons I bought my hybrid car in 2012, I wanted to have a vehicle that could get my ass to work through a two week crisis on one fill.
Star Member Rhiannon12866 (130,625 posts)
19. Gas is over $3-a-gallon as of today here in NE New York
It's been steadily rising, has been stuck at $2.99 most places, so we knew it was just a matter of time.
I've belonged to GasBuddy for a long time - since gas prices went up significantly before. It lists gas prices in your area - and whether they have gas at all:
https://www.gasbuddy.com/
:whatever:
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It's a good thing the government is shutting down supply sites, canceling infrastructure pipeline and mandating non-existent alternative technologies.
That ought to help!
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PortTack
5. Brought to you by your russian loving qgop and their hack of the pipeline!
Russia..helping out their friends...ppl get pissed here when gas prices rise. This is a direct shot at Biden.
What an idiot!!
Western Europe and Asia (China, Korea, Japan) gets oil from Russia. Here, we have domestic production coupled with that sweet oil that comes from the Middle East. We don't get oil from Russia, primitive. Try again!
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Gasoline is an eeeee-vile fossil fuel. Why aren't DUmmies celebrating this supply disruption?!
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But... the DHS assures us there is no gas shortage!
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Gasoline is an eeeee-vile fossil fuel. Why aren't DUmmies celebrating this supply disruption?!
The statement was issued from the side of the road while waiting on AAA.
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DUmmie stupidity knows no bounds.
DUMPASSES, Biden took office in Jan, gas was $1.95 gal. here for regular. It's now $2.89.
Trump is not in office. So guess again.
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Star Member gldstwmn (2,217 posts)
17. Agree. They're going to do everything
they can including voter suppression again and to kick the poor in the teeth by taking their $300 a week away in states with GOP governors. In the meantime the anti vax and anti mask crowd should come to grips with the fact that they are complicit in the deaths of 600,000 of their fellow countrymen.
But if anyone can beat these bastards it's Joe. I was very hesitant about his candidacy. But I was wrong. At least I can go to sleep at night with the reasonable assumption that I will wake up tomorrow.
And yes, this whole thing has shades of what they did to President Carter.
ROTFLMAO. Yeah, if it wasn’t s for those tricky repukes Carter’s four years would have went down as a golden age utopia. How can you be that stupid and remember to breath?
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ROTFLMAO. Yeah, if it wasn’t s for those tricky repukes Carter’s four years would have went down as a golden age utopia. How can you be that stupid and remember to breath?
Looking forward to the misery index being resurrected again. :banghead:
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Star Member packman (13,430 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215417459
Shit- gas lines again - echoes of the 70's
:ownit:
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Could one of you lurkers provide me with a list, or even one single policy change Biden has done in support of our energy supply? I mean the energy you'll need in the morning. Not your visionary, pie-in-the-sky, fantasy energy. Just one policy of Biden's that makes the energy you'll need this week more affordable and/or available will suffice.
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Looking forward to the misery index being resurrected again. :banghead:
Can you imagine how many times sleepy Joe would nod off during a jimmy Carter style fireside chat if those are brought back again