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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

gas is a commodity, it's price is based on opec oil production, whether we get oil from them or not, along with global demand, the seasons and severity of winters around the world, political bullshit on the other side of the world, and corporate greed.

if you want to lay blame on high prices in the u.s., blame yourselves first for your addiction to large, gas-guzzling vehicles (among other things)... then blame the oil companies, who produce more now than ever before and choose to export at higher prices than they can sell domestically (the u.s. actually exports more than we import).

egg prices have been affected by infected farms and loss of production, and compounded by corporate greed eyeballing opportunities to artificially inflate, and hold high, prices; and they'd rather write-off a culling than spend a dime on preventive measures such as lower density farms or vaccinations (you know how well that would play out with our far-right dominated media these days).

neither can really be controlled by congress or the president. neither is the democrat's fault. neither is biden or harris' fault.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I had this exact conversation several times with Americans while travelling for work in the USA.

Oil prices are up around the world and USA gas prices are actually really cheap compared to everywhere else.

In fact everything is pretty cheap compared to Europe and Australia.

But all they do is whinge and moan and blame Biden.

They have no friggen idea there's a whole wide world out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, you are probably not taking into account all the things Americans have to spend money on that are government services elsewhere. Healthcare alone takes a large chunk of American income. By the time people are spending money on groceries, there is often little or no money left.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I take your point but this was not the case for these people I was talking to. I pay their salaries and health insurance and they still take home 6 figures a year after all deductions.

Then they sit there complaining about gas prices and how Biden is running their lives when it's a worldwide thing and they have it better than 99% of the rest of humanity. Biden can't do shit about world wide issues.

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