Drivers face growing pain as gas nears $5 a gallon Anonymous
05/05/26(Tue)15:15:56
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https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2026/05/05/ohio-gas-price-burden -iran-war
The weight of gas prices is getting heavier and heavier, especially in Ohio.
State of play: The state ranks No. 2 in gas price burden, according to a new study from financial technology company SmartAsset.
- The report considers the cost of a 15-gallon fill-up (at $4.89 per gallon on Monday) as a percentage of a state's estimated median weekly household income.
By the numbers: The cost of a fill-up is 5% of Ohio's median weekly income ($1,465).
- West Virginia is the only state ranked higher, at 5.23%.
Between the lines: Things are even worse for Ohio minimum-wage workers. A gas fill-up is 16.7% of the weekly minimum wage pay, per the report.
Zoom in: The average price of regular gas in Cleveland was $4.87 as of Tuesday, according to AAA.
-That's up from $3.81 a month ago and $3.17 a year ago.
The gasoline price surge is reigniting political chatter about suspending the federal tax on fuel to help consumers.
- That would mean pausing the 18.3-cent-per-gallon gas tax and 24.3-cent diesel tax.
Reality check: It would bring some relief to consumers, but wouldn't come close to offsetting the nearly $1.50-per-gallon jump in gas prices since the Iran War started.
-Congress would have to approve a suspension of the gas tax, and it never has.
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>>1512313
Expelling Jews and other middlemen has often lead to economic crisis
Thomas Sowell covers it in his Essay "Are Jews Generic?" where he discusses the Overseas Chinese community in South East Asia.
https://www.hoover.org/research/anti-semitism-generic
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I bet there'll be an increase in sales of EVs. In my locale, I've seen every charging facility at capacity with a line of cars waiting. And I bet there'll be an increase in those investing in solar panels to not only power their homes but their cars. Sunlight won't run out, unlike oil.
Jeff Bezos investing in Slate vehicles? He has chosen... wisely. Those EVs not requiring firmware updates etc? Infinitely safer too.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZKpCR7PT/trump-tesla.jpg
Would you buy a used car from this man?
>>1512191
>The weight of gas prices is getting heavier and heavier, especially in Ohio
In more ways than one, expect a Democrat to win in that state: >>1512441
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>>1512484
>if
Well, as Trump proves, it's now more than impossible for a Democrat to do any worse than a Republican.
Just ask those who previously voted Republican in other places in recent months who have elected Democrats on the simple platform that they're not Republicans. Because they've had enough of Trump & that thing's corrupt & MAGA-infected GOP.
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>>1512491
>The president doesn't control their local government.
Republicans literally bow down to anything Trump does including deployment of ICE thugs and openly corrupt emoluments clause violations, so in this case they kinda do. This is what happens when your political party becomes a cult of personality for one person.
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>>1512491
>What platform are Democrats running on?
Not being Republicans.
The concept of 'Tactical Voting' elsewhere, to ensure a certain party's candidate doesn't win: it's why Trump's pal Nigey FaRAGE is faRAGING at how the Green Party prevented his (Un)Reform(ed) candidate winning in a by-election recently, screaming about 'vote rigging'. In this instance & in recent months, Vengeance Voting: because there are Republican voters who have had enough of Trump & his MAGA-infected GOP.
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>>1512504
If you still want to vote for trump after seeing his wake of death, destruction and chaos, you're an ignorant moron.
If you vote for someone else on the basis that they aren't trump, you're still an ignorant moron.
That's a retarded right wing talking point. The only people voting for dems because they aren't trump are the same maga retards that voted for him on vibes because he wasn't an establishment republican (so it's literallyprojection), or because there was an r next to his name after the nomination.
I mean for fuck's sake, the existence of democratic primaries, the existence of our political system as a whole, proves this wrong. If you don't know the platform of the candidate you are voting for, that is very much a problem a with you.
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...and yet, there are Republican voters who have voted Democrat in recent months for three reasons:
1- They've had enough of Trump & MAGA
2- Because the Democrats they voted for - and won - aren't Republicans that are pro-Trump & MAGA. And that's all the platform said voters needed.
3- Because they can
4- ?????
5- PROFIT!
But not for Trump, MAGA, and that in /news/ which is so triggered because others refuse to listen to its wrong opinions. But that's okay. It can seethe, be reduced to projection, deflection etc all it wants, despite the fact - as proven by said elections - it constantly lives in a certain river in Egypt about reality. It can't accept the fact that the writing's on the wall for Trump & MAGA, and thinks that spewing its wrong opinions will somehow bend reality to its will. But that's okay.
Because said voters/others in this part of 4chan doesn't care about the /news/ snowflake's feelings. And why should they, especially said voters who elected Democrats in recent months? Because - as proven since early 2025 - the orange thing they initially voted for has never cared about them.
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It's not a problem for those who previously voted for an orange thing that proved it doesn't care about those who voted for it, and have voted Democrat instead. But:
>>1512509
>that is very much a problem a with you.
>problem a with you
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But it is for a shill whose problem is that it isn't American, and is reduced to projection against those who are. Certainly those who will never listen to its wrong opinions.
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>>1512512
It comes with the bold assumption that trump and the conservatives no longer in power.
BTW, they're already using the current system to price gouge you already.
https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-hassett-credit-card-spending/
If anything this is a smoking gun that unfettered capitalism is a failure.
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>>1512511
No politician cares about their constituency. We just wanted someone to deport the browns and nobody else has offered, simple as. If you want to put forward another cantidate that will risk torpedoing the global grift to deport them, let us know and we'll consider him. Just fuck right off if they're brown or a woman, because we're not going down that road.
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>>1512571
>If anything this is a smoking gun that unfettered capitalism is a failure.
lol, look at this DUMB FUCKER.
He thinks this is capitalism.
Not only capitalism, but "UNFETTERED capitalism"
What a stupid bitch. Whatever solution this dumb fucker has is probably equally retarded as his statement.
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Friendly reminder that gas was more expensive in 1973-74 than it is now, and that was a big part of the Nixon-Ford-Carter recession.
Median household income:
1973 - $11,000/yr
2025 - $84,000/yr.
In late 1973 the price of gas jumped to over a dollar a gallon, thanks to Nixon's shady deal with the Saudis right before OPEC boycotted the West. That is equivalent to $7.50/gallon today.
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And yet, those who are Republican voters are electing those who refuse to bend to your wrong opinions: thus in soon to be Soviet America, torpedoed are you >>1512572
Because of that which you shill for not caring about them, why should they care about that which a cultist irrelevance in /news/ shills for, thus not care about your feelings, little snowflake that will never be white as snow?
>Just fuck right off if they're brown
>>1512441
If this is the 'best' that MAGA can send, then in soon to be Soviet America deported is you. Because everyone else in /news/ knows you're not American.
Remember:
1- They've had enough of Trump & MAGA
2- Because the Democrats they voted for - and won - aren't Republicans that are pro-Trump & MAGA. And that's all the platform said voters needed.
3- Because they can
>Just fuck right off
Republicans electing Democrats for the above reasons are saying that to the likes of you - and your little orange dog - too. And in reacting the way you just have, they've succeeded.
Why should they care about your feelings, little SJW for MAGA? Whining about such the way you are - certainly where - won't make any difference to reality as a whole. But then, have your opinions here or anywhere else had any effect whatsoever? In Soviet Reality, already affected is you, >>1512572
In soon to be Soviet America, no politician cares about you.