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Want to think of something ironic about the Simpsons?

Lisa was supposed to be "the rebel", and "smart".

She's the stupidest conformist in the show. She's the most stereotypical liberal there can be. She's a vegetarian, she's a Buddhist, global warming is a fact to her, studying in school is essential although she knows what she's being taught is nonsense, she parrots every single liberal talking point possible, she believes in "green energy" as a solution, CO2 is killing the Earth.

The smartest character in the show is, believe it or not, Bart. He recognizes it's all bullshit, he mocks authority, he realizes school is a waste of time and when he was homeschooled in one episode excelled, he doesn't believe in ANY narrative, and he mocks Lisa for her beliefs regularly and quite effectively. He is even an atheist having sold his soul in one episode, where circumstances led him to doubt this sale.

Almost nobody recognizes that their roles are reversed.

Gas down 5 cents from last time I looked. Now only $4.949/gallon!

First time ever my car was over a 100$ to fill the tank. #letsgobrandon

https://notthebee.com/article/this-california-gas-station-manager-misplaced-the-decimal-when-he-priced-premium-gas-allowing-hundreds-of-customers-to-fill-up-at-just-69-cents-per-gallon-the-mistake-cost-the-station-16000

https://notthebee.com/article/insane-bidens-energy-secretary-calls-on-domestic-producers-to-produce-more-oil-while-simultaneously-saying-she-wants-to-shut-them-down-in-the-next-five-years

My partner and I drove from SJ to Capitola (near Santa Cruz) for lunch today in a Subaru Legacy. It's a comfy AWD Sedan, not a dinky economy car.

The round trip was 95 miles. According to the fuel estimate display, averaged 31 mpg. It means, about three gallons, at $6.00 per gallon (price I paid at Moe's in SJ yesterday) the round trip was about $18, or $9 per person.

For comparison the round trip on the excellent Santa Cruz County public transit bus, "Highway 17 Express", direct, nonstop between downtown Santa Cruz and downtown San Jose, is $7 per passenger ($14 round trip, per passenger). Then you'd have to figure out the last few miles on either end. Leisurely door-to-door drive in air conditioned comfort with stereo sound was $9 per passenger.

This is why I say, gasoline even at today's prices is a fabulous bargain. Sorry I don't like the high prices either, but it's still incredibly cheap transportation.

https://www.ntd.com/exxon-mobil-fires-back-at-biden-after-letter-warning-use-of-emergency-powers_795194.html

RC2006 says

First time ever my car was over a 100$ to fill the tank. #letsgobrandon

I figured out a way to keep it under $100. Fill up when you are half empty. Last time it only took $61 to fill up.

Onvacation says

Fill up when you are half empty

That's what I always do anyway. Fill up on Thursday after I've bought my chicken thigh from Krispy Chicken at 23rd & Franklin. Just drive into the Alon station around the corner from my house, never used more than half a tank in a week. Stand behind several well-off people spending money they can spare on scratch offs before I can pay.

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No one is addressing the 800# gorilla in the room. Blackrock/Larry Fink has decided that petro has to go, and so the entire industry is being starved for capital via the ESG score (ergo social credit system) ranking process.

Biden is just acting as Fink's handmaden, doing his bidding. Fink is the puppetmaster here.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-the-allegory-truth




And doesn't anyone in the White House understand basic economics? If you want to lower the price on something, increase the supply and not the demand.

Patrick says

And doesn't anyone in the White House understand basic economics? If you want to lower the price on something, increase the supply and not the demand.

@Patrick, did you watch Maher? He explains why in his latest segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu9JGK_yHo

Millie Trust Fund Babies believe the supply is unlimited, only demand (their access to cash) is limited.

Patrick says

And doesn't anyone in the White House understand basic economics?

Why are you expecting Democrats to understand basic economics?

Now within 10% of pre-COVID pandemic levels for rig count ....
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DooDahMan says

Let me fix your bogus premise about cars and global warming:

This morning my partner and I drove the Subaru Legacy AWD sedan (ie, NOT a dinky economy car) from the driveway in front of our home in SJ to two different destinations in Berkeley. We left home with a (nearly) full tank (only drove 5 miles after previous fillup). The total round trip distance was 102 miles.

We filled up on the way home at Gas & Shop at the corner of McKee and 33rd street in San Jose, at $5.979 per gallon. It was $19.59 for this trip, ie - about $9.80 per person.

For comparison, the discount (Clipper) BART fare for SJ - Berkeley is $13.20 per person round trip. The $13.20 does not include how to get door to door at either end of a BART trip.

I know the prices are high, and I don't like them either. But even at these prices it's incredibly cheap transportation, considering door to door, not sharing with public transit denizens, etc. I think it means the prices may go much higher.

HeadSet says

Let me fix your bogus premise about cars and global warming:

You should post that to Kevin Siers who did the original cartoon:

https://twitter.com/kevinsiers

AmericanKulak says

@Patrick, did you watch Maher? He explains why in his latest segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu9JGK_yHo

I have to give you credit @AmericanKulak to be able to watch Bill Maher. That fucking shitlib makes me want to puke. I used to respect him, just as I did Rachael Maddow, Keith Olberman, Steven Colbert, The Young Turks - now they just disgust me. I thought they had principles at one point, they are just fucking shitlibs. Shitlibs are as disgusting as Neocons are, because they are essentially the same.

If Al Gore was prezdident in 2000, we'd still have gone to war in Iraq for different reasons though - but all those shitlib scum would have fanatically supported it. We'd have had the same outcome, a destroyed nation. I didn't realize they were such partisan hacks.

Maher is a partisan hack, although he pretends he's not.

HeadSet says

Let me fix your bogus premise about cars and global warming:

Did you photo shop that HeadSet?
nice work, whoever did it.

Onvacation says

Did you photo shop that HeadSet?

I used Microsoft Paint to erase the original letters and Powerpoint to add in my own.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/bons-mots-and-bad-money-inflation/

Ask yourself what Biden and his minders would have done differently had they actually intended to impoverish the American citizenry. Just about the first thing Biden did upon taking office was mount an all-out attack on the American energy industry. His cancellation of the Keystone pipeline got a lot of ink. But that was just the tip of the oil rig. He has worked tooth and claw to destroy the coal industry. He has canceled oil- and gas-lease sales in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. Is it any wonder that the United States went from being a net energy exporter at the end of the Trump administration to showing up, empty red can in hand, begging for the stuff from Venezuela and Iran?

It’s something to think about when you fill up your gas tank and notice that the gauges on the pumps have just been altered to allow for an extra digit: not $9.99 per gallon, Comrade, but $10.00 or more.

https://thepricklypear.org/energy-shortages-and-inflation-the-new-norm-as-refinery-closures-outpace-construction/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-officials-travel-to-venezuela-for-second-round-of-talks-on-e2-80-98welfare-and-safety-e2-80-99-of-americans/ar-AAYX6rp

Biden officials are in Venezuela to beg for oil.

https://slaynews.com/economy/g7-leaders-struggle-to-cope-with-consequences-of-green-energy-agenda/

https://www.ntd.com/biden-looks-to-block-or-limit-new-offshore-drilling-scaling-back-trump-era-plan-to-pump-more-oil_802923.html

Biden Looks to Block or Limit New Offshore Drilling, Scaling Back Trump-Era Plan to Pump More Oil

Whoever is controlling Biden really wants high gasoline prices.

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Active rig count continues to steadily increase and is within 10% of pre pandemic level.

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Looks like someone is doing alright with their Model Y long road trip. Spent about $60 for 850 miles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/vqij7v/850_mile_trip_cross_country_completed_yesterday/?utm_name=iossmf

Eman says

Looks like someone is doing alright with their Model Y long road trip. Spent about $60 for 850 miles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/vqij7v/850_mile_trip_cross_country_completed_yesterday/?utm_name=iossmf

With my 2021 Honda CRV (about 34 miles per gallon highway) that would be 25 gallons or $125 for gasoline. This is 6.8 miles per dollar.

The Telsa model Y is 14.1 miles per dollar based on data provided in the previous post.

The cheapest Tesla is the Model 3 and sells for around $40,000, and is about $10,000 more than our purchase for our 2021 CRV. The Model 3 is the one my wife and I are looking to buy. It costs the Tesla 3 owner about $3 to charge for every 100 miles or 33 miles per dollar. Model 3 has a range of 350 miles.

(source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/06/24/tesla-charging-costs-battery-gas/7689746001/ ).

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