Wrong! Complain about gas prices and the fact that we should have supplied Ukraine with AA defense and anti-tank weapons long ago.
A very short time ago we were energy independent. Biden ruined that. Now he looks to others to fill our needs and at the same time refuses to allow additional drilling and pipelines citing environmental concerns. Apparently he fails to realize that burning Russian, Saudi or any other country's oil or Natural Gas is just as bad as burning our own. One globe Biden, one environment, and, of course, if we burned our own we'd be making money instead of spending money.
Simplistic memes are just that.... simplistic.
True. But still I wonder, if the wholesale price of gas only equals about one percent of my total monthly gas bill. Why is it that when the wholesale price of gas goes up by half, my bill goes up by nearer to fifty percent, than by half of one percent ?
Actually I also wonder why I am paying one hundred times the wholesale price of the product in the first place. Yes I know they have to maintain the pipes, and there is a cost in posting my bill each month, but even so, that is one hell of a big mark up.
But no, I would happily see my gas bill doubled, if it meant that some journalist, would not have to take just one more photo of a cold frightened parent, carrying a baby round piles of debris, while the grandparents try to drag spare clothes and baby food behind, with no certainty of where they were going.
On the 28 Februray the price of gas in the US was $1.044 per litre here in the UK the price was $2.04 per litre. In the US computers and other electronic goods are much less expensive than they are in the UK and in China the cost of a laptop is more or less the same price as the UK.
Does someone come around to your house to check and maintain the gas or electricity supply pipes and lines and where and with what frequency does such so-called maintenance take place?
Someone on this site in the US recently posted about the increase in gas prices. When I commented about the situation here nobody on site responded.
@ASTRALMAX Exactly. No, at best they do a shabby job of keeping the mains going, I suspect that there are huge profits being made out of price fixing. But if they were half as bad as the plastic payment card rip-off I would complain, people who take card payments, pay often as much as one and a half percent for each transaction, plus monthly rentals for the terminals, of thirty pounds or more, which itself would more than pay for the tiny factions of pence it costs to send payment messages round the wires. So that every card transaction effectively pays a tax which goes directly into a bank account on an offshore tax haven. People keep making more and more payments by card, instead of cash, and then wonder why the rich/poor divide keeps getting wider.