Ron - did remarkably well investing while in congress, funny how that works. Did well fundraising for his campaigns, funny how personal wealth tracks that. Oh, and crypto. In summary, hard work leads to the American dream 😡
Yes! In my yuppy/gentrified SE MI college town, gas was $4.99 for unleaded, but now down to about $4.89 at the expensive place (where our local USPS gasses up). Last week I was in North Myrtle Beach SC and it was $3.89/gal. unleaded. As we all know, here in Michigan you cannot get from Pt. A to Pt. B without a car and "as goes the automotive industry, so goes Michigan," whether directly in heavy industry, or indirectly via tourism. We ran off our Canadian visitors with tariffs and now we'll hamstring the summer tourists with gas prices. Not so happy in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
And if ANYONE thinks that prices will go down ... they probably believe that all that tariff money will be refunded to consumers, too. That's not how the profit game works. You establish a just-not-fatal price and get what you can for as long as you can and put it on the consumer to make up the difference.
No way. We finally got rid of Cawthorne here in NC? He fits in even better with the Florida Man crowd, and now the FL police can take care of his reckless driving. The entire state of NC wishes him luck in the primary.
There was a great line in “Fiddler on the Roof” when one of the characters says, “May the good Lord keep the Tsar-and keep him away from our village!” NC must have breathed a collective sign of relief when Cawthorne left town.
It should be noted that the $3.91 for Georgia's gas prices are lower than typical because Gov. Kemp suspended the gas tax for 60 days when prices first started to spike. That'll expire May 19, and without and extension we'll see an immediate jump of 33 cents (37 for diesel)
will - our Indiana gov used same ploy to shave a little. No one mentions how many millions the state is losing from this move, all of which is presumably already encumbered for current year budget expenses. So that rickety bridge we thought would be replaced, the matching funds for repaving crumbling interstates… well, just more sacrifices we’re grateful to make for the president’s ego ‘excursion’
Most important life event first. Congrats on the birth of a baby daughter. Human families are to be celebrated. I hope things go well at your house. On gas, I paid $6.09 this morning on the way home from my weekly shop in Pinole, CA, where, fortunately, at Trader Joe’s, tuna is still $1.99 a can. The station a block away showed prices about 50 cents a gallon higher. Thirty-eight million or so Californians are paying top dollar for gas. It’s just a demographic observation, but news stories on gas prices originating in the Northeast don’t pack the punch they deserve to have because those of us out here where the land mass runs out and dreams are routinely dashed are paying so much more. Four-something a gallon sounds like a steal!
I think Susan Collins epitomizes the problem for Americans. She owns stock in CONOCOPHILLIPS so her investments are doing well. Not so for her voters in the state of Maine and for the other 49 states. Probably received millions from the gas and oil industry over her career, which again, helped her; her voters, not so much. She won’t do anything to rein in Felon Trump for this war, or for anything else, but wants the voters to forget all this and re-elect her. Take out Collins. Put in any Republican and you have the same pattern. Mention it and Republicans start hyperventilating over Nancy Pelosi and Hunter Biden as to how bad they are. And in the case of Nancy Pelosi, and probably others, her husband has had a long and successful career in finance, which she benefitted from, and why shouldn’t she? It’s his field. I would prefer that the rules for insider trading be strengthened, and heads should roll if there is any impropriety involved. That’s not okay for just one party, and lately is just one party, Republicans. Hegseth anybody?
No Doug it is not. What starts smelling like three day old fish is the lack of oversight our Congress has on policing its own over insider trading. I don’t criticize Collins for owning stock in an oil company. I want to know her record of her voting on issues that help the voters or her and her fellow Republicans. The price of gasoline rose quickly, but the decline always lags. I have taken enough economics courses to question this.
Cornyn: “I think we have to do a better job of explaining it,” he said. “But I think if the American people understood, they would certainly agree that a nuclear Iran is a terrible idea.”
Yes, we do agree with that. Maybe the JCPOA shouldn't have been torn up, no?
" . . . even if the increases [in gas prices] have little to do with the administration's policies."
Say what? The absurd war with Iran is an administration policy, dictated by the orange narcissist-felon, the head of the administration, and the direct cause of the price surge.
By the way, isn't it about time you, and the rest of the media, differentiated between 'gas' (a vapor) and 'gasoline' (a fluid). They're different, though both are hydrocarbons.
Please try to be more clear, both in the reality [the gasoline prices, not 'the gas prices'] and in the correct terminology that differentiates between a vapor and a fluid.
And if you think the gas (NOT gasoline) market is trivial, and the differentiating irrelevant, consider that there are 60 million gas (NOT gasoline) space heaters, 58 million water heaters, 40 million cooking devices and 20 million clothes driers (178 million total). Gas (NOT gasoline) is a huge market and gas (NOT gasoline) cost tracks gasoline (NOT gas) prices.
Thank you for this. There is no need for a footnote. That sentence in the body of the paragraph is ridiculous. And the contortion of adding a footnote with the actual facts was strange. How about just writing a fact based sentence in the paragraph and losing the footnote?
Exactly my point. The text is 100% incorrect. The administration's policy is causing the gasoline (and the gas, and the other essential products that transit the Strait) to surge (please, enough with the hyperbolic 'skyrocket' the media love).
Welcome back and congratulations to you and your wife!
"Oil of oy vey"
Absolutely fantastic. No notes.
Congratulations on the new addition to your family, Joe!
P.S. How in the hell could Madison Cawthorn loan his campaign half a mil!? How did he make his money!?
Ron - did remarkably well investing while in congress, funny how that works. Did well fundraising for his campaigns, funny how personal wealth tracks that. Oh, and crypto. In summary, hard work leads to the American dream 😡
First thought that popped into my head!
in trump 1, he blew up jcpoa, an internationally-monitored inspection program that allow iran to process uranium to levels for civilian uses
so after that, of course iran starts processing to weapons grade & trump 2 starts a war
but, like venezuela, it was never about anything but oil
Exactly. Trump personally enabled Iran to begin high level enriching nuclear material.
…with acquiescence of his Nat Sec & State Dept teams who likely knew better. “Gotta humor him, we’ll work it out later, what could possibly go wrong?”
Yes! In my yuppy/gentrified SE MI college town, gas was $4.99 for unleaded, but now down to about $4.89 at the expensive place (where our local USPS gasses up). Last week I was in North Myrtle Beach SC and it was $3.89/gal. unleaded. As we all know, here in Michigan you cannot get from Pt. A to Pt. B without a car and "as goes the automotive industry, so goes Michigan," whether directly in heavy industry, or indirectly via tourism. We ran off our Canadian visitors with tariffs and now we'll hamstring the summer tourists with gas prices. Not so happy in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
julia - “down to about $4.89” 😳 Here near Indy we were pushing the 5 mark but last week slipped back to 4.49. For the moment…
And if ANYONE thinks that prices will go down ... they probably believe that all that tariff money will be refunded to consumers, too. That's not how the profit game works. You establish a just-not-fatal price and get what you can for as long as you can and put it on the consumer to make up the difference.
Econ 101 ✔️
Welcome back! We missed you, Joe!
Congratulations to you and your family! Will filled in wonderfully but it's great to have you back.
Buddy Carter: "high gas prices are the work of the Democrats...." What a load of bull manure.
I’m sorry but who can take anyone seriously who goes around wanting to be called “Buddy”? I would change my name on that one for sure
I noticed that too.
No way. We finally got rid of Cawthorne here in NC? He fits in even better with the Florida Man crowd, and now the FL police can take care of his reckless driving. The entire state of NC wishes him luck in the primary.
There was a great line in “Fiddler on the Roof” when one of the characters says, “May the good Lord keep the Tsar-and keep him away from our village!” NC must have breathed a collective sign of relief when Cawthorne left town.
Donald - maybe he and Matt Gaetz can open an after hours joint
I see now that he’s kept up his driving shenanigans in Florida. Good for him.
It should be noted that the $3.91 for Georgia's gas prices are lower than typical because Gov. Kemp suspended the gas tax for 60 days when prices first started to spike. That'll expire May 19, and without and extension we'll see an immediate jump of 33 cents (37 for diesel)
will - our Indiana gov used same ploy to shave a little. No one mentions how many millions the state is losing from this move, all of which is presumably already encumbered for current year budget expenses. So that rickety bridge we thought would be replaced, the matching funds for repaving crumbling interstates… well, just more sacrifices we’re grateful to make for the president’s ego ‘excursion’
Most important life event first. Congrats on the birth of a baby daughter. Human families are to be celebrated. I hope things go well at your house. On gas, I paid $6.09 this morning on the way home from my weekly shop in Pinole, CA, where, fortunately, at Trader Joe’s, tuna is still $1.99 a can. The station a block away showed prices about 50 cents a gallon higher. Thirty-eight million or so Californians are paying top dollar for gas. It’s just a demographic observation, but news stories on gas prices originating in the Northeast don’t pack the punch they deserve to have because those of us out here where the land mass runs out and dreams are routinely dashed are paying so much more. Four-something a gallon sounds like a steal!
I think Susan Collins epitomizes the problem for Americans. She owns stock in CONOCOPHILLIPS so her investments are doing well. Not so for her voters in the state of Maine and for the other 49 states. Probably received millions from the gas and oil industry over her career, which again, helped her; her voters, not so much. She won’t do anything to rein in Felon Trump for this war, or for anything else, but wants the voters to forget all this and re-elect her. Take out Collins. Put in any Republican and you have the same pattern. Mention it and Republicans start hyperventilating over Nancy Pelosi and Hunter Biden as to how bad they are. And in the case of Nancy Pelosi, and probably others, her husband has had a long and successful career in finance, which she benefitted from, and why shouldn’t she? It’s his field. I would prefer that the rules for insider trading be strengthened, and heads should roll if there is any impropriety involved. That’s not okay for just one party, and lately is just one party, Republicans. Hegseth anybody?
You can rest assured that Susan Collins is at least very concerned.
It is not a crime to own a publicly traded stock, especially if you disclose your investment. There is plenty to criticize her for, but not this.
No Doug it is not. What starts smelling like three day old fish is the lack of oversight our Congress has on policing its own over insider trading. I don’t criticize Collins for owning stock in an oil company. I want to know her record of her voting on issues that help the voters or her and her fellow Republicans. The price of gasoline rose quickly, but the decline always lags. I have taken enough economics courses to question this.
Welcome back, Joe, and congratulations to you and your wife!
Former Chairman Rogers is a HUGE BIGLY DISAPPOINTMENT! SAD
Cornyn: “I think we have to do a better job of explaining it,” he said. “But I think if the American people understood, they would certainly agree that a nuclear Iran is a terrible idea.”
Yes, we do agree with that. Maybe the JCPOA shouldn't have been torn up, no?
Talk about mixed signals!!!
" . . . even if the increases [in gas prices] have little to do with the administration's policies."
Say what? The absurd war with Iran is an administration policy, dictated by the orange narcissist-felon, the head of the administration, and the direct cause of the price surge.
By the way, isn't it about time you, and the rest of the media, differentiated between 'gas' (a vapor) and 'gasoline' (a fluid). They're different, though both are hydrocarbons.
Please try to be more clear, both in the reality [the gasoline prices, not 'the gas prices'] and in the correct terminology that differentiates between a vapor and a fluid.
And if you think the gas (NOT gasoline) market is trivial, and the differentiating irrelevant, consider that there are 60 million gas (NOT gasoline) space heaters, 58 million water heaters, 40 million cooking devices and 20 million clothes driers (178 million total). Gas (NOT gasoline) is a huge market and gas (NOT gasoline) cost tracks gasoline (NOT gas) prices.
Picky, picky? I don't think so.
Thank you for this. There is no need for a footnote. That sentence in the body of the paragraph is ridiculous. And the contortion of adding a footnote with the actual facts was strange. How about just writing a fact based sentence in the paragraph and losing the footnote?
Exactly my point. The text is 100% incorrect. The administration's policy is causing the gasoline (and the gas, and the other essential products that transit the Strait) to surge (please, enough with the hyperbolic 'skyrocket' the media love).
You need to read the footnote.
I did. Body and footnote are not in harmony.
Agree to disagree....
I thought gas was what comes out of Trump's mouth.
Re: cause of price spike. I interpreted the comment about fault as referring to the price jump under Biden caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.