YOU HAVEN’T EVEN SAID THANK YOU

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

The alternative, Vance said, was accepting that “the Iranians were going to shoot at ships like crazy people.”

Vance, the Trump administration was shooting at Cuban boats to score political points less than a year ago.

The Trump regime continues to randomly blast ships out of the water half a world away with no care for who's onboard

Iran is shooting at ships in its waters

If someone is concerned about climate policy and wants people to curtail their ICE vehicle use, high fuel prices are probably going to be the only realistic way that this is gonna be exposed to the consumer (like, we probably aren't going to have an administration impose fuel rationing or something) so this is pretty good. Not only are they high, but it's also good odds that your favorite politician isn't the one taking the political hit for it. As the article points out:

In the U.S., gas prices were less than $3 per gallon before the start of the Iran war in February, and since then, the national average is now $4.14. That increase has cost Americans more than $50 billion, according to a Brown University analysis. As of this writing, the most expensive gas in America is in California, where car owners are spending as much as $5.78 per gallon. That has hurt the economy, with Americans spending a lot less money on vacations over the summer. Flights and road trips have also declined, as jet fuel costs have also been affected by the Iran war.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/26/1134677/gas-prices-electric-vehicles/

Historically, this is exactly the sort of moment that’s pushed people to reevaluate how they get around. During the oil crisis of the 1970s, Americans switched to smaller, more efficient cars in droves. It was a major opportunity for Japanese automakers, whose vehicles tended to fit this mold better than those produced by their US counterparts.

Nice, round numbers do tend to get people’s attention. Some point to $4 per gallon (which the national average is quite close to right now). At that price, the total cost of ownership for an EV is comfortably lower than the cost for a gas-powered car, even with higher electricity prices, according to data from the energy consultancy BloombergNEF.

Then again, maybe that won’t quite do the trick: One survey from Cox Automotive found that most US consumers would consider switching to an EV or hybrid if gas prices hit $6 per gallon.

Mind, I don't think that Trump is gonna get a Greenpeace or Sierra Club endorsement any time soon...

Well, I am... I guess.

JD Vance should be grateful we just want him out of office.

Coming from the admin that forced everyone to back into the office for literally no good reason... which surprise surprise... means we have to use cars... which use gas.... do they think we're fucking stupid or something?

Thanks trump!

Fuckers

Absolutely dumb as fuck...these stupid assholes actually think they are smarter than the population....and since they're dumb as fuck they really really really think we're dumb

For now.

Some of us have gotten past that.

I am grateful that they are high, and hope they go higher, it’s the only way Americans will vote against this herd of assholes.

these stupid assholes actually think they are smarter than the population…

Ah, yes, the vaunted intelligence of the American public who elected GW Bush and Trump twice each.

When the strategic reserve fully runs out, guess what? It’s going to get a lot higher…

Double-tapping survivors. They were fishing boats, but even if they had been gun runners, that’s a war crime. Textbook definition.

The people who listen to them are, so they assume we all are.

"pray I do not alter it further"

he should say, you should be thankful i only reaped the pope's soul and not Donalds.

He's right... gas prices in the States are cheap af. USA pays ~75% of the global avg price for gas: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/USA/gasoline_prices/

Grateful to China for using their reserves, reducing global demand by several million barrels a day.

JD Vance can suck my dick.

Not only using their reserves, it also doesn't seem like they're making demands for doing it too.

Of course they might just be waiting for the right time.

He claimed that if the U.S. left the Persian Gulf, there would be “no guaranteed access to oil and gas” and that the U.S.’s Gulf Arab allies say “that would be the worst thing in the world.”

You had no reason to be there in the first place, tho

I seriously have no idea how this man didn't cost Trump re-election

They have nothing but contempt for us.

Another case of 'Did you even say "thank you"?'

jd vance is grown up cartman on not enough ozempic

2 weeks before the mid terms might be the right time they’re waiting for.

"You should be happy we haven't fucked you over even more!"

yea yeah we know

your war against WMD's in the middle east must go on at any cost and we're very grateful

Yeah... But should anyone listen to a couchfucker on any level? Like, come on. I get it - his wife must find him repulsive - but it's so desperate, right?

Typical abuser behaviour.
"I only hit you once. Now thank me. THANK ME.
...
Don't make me hit you again!!!"

"th...thank you."

"Thank you, what?"

"thank you...sir?"

"AGAIN!"
"thank you, sir."

"Good peasant. Now go away and don't cause any more trouble."

I used to be a live and let live kind of person, but the last ten years has made me a "kill the evil rich and powerful people" person.

The RapePublicans could've put Vlad the Impaler as Fatboy McKiddieFiddlers vice president and that obese child rapist would still be president.

When you've got a large number of idiots voting for anything racist/misogynist, a corrupt trillionaire bribing and blackmailing everyone they can think of, and another large number of slightly less idiotic people who don't want to vote for a a woman or plan on protest voting, then Epsteins best mate was always going to win.

I also want them to go higher because the air is cleaner when more people stop driving ICE cars.

Ew

25th Amendment is the only way you get to say shit like this.

As I understand it, that's still happening.

do they think we’re fucking stupid or something?

Yes. Yes, they do. And for the most part, they're right.

Whatever turns you on, bro.

The only reason they aren't is because we caught some OPEC countries under reporting oil inventories for at least the prior two years.

I swear that came out of auto industry lobbying.

We’ve been quite successful up to this point.

Laughter

Gas, frankly, could’ve been much, much higher lower were it not for our efforts.

Or stop driving all together and actually fund public transit

do they think we’re fucking stupid or something?

Considering we elected them twice... Yes.

Supreme leader JD Zedong has spoken.

They're also pillaging the federal oil reserves.

Can’t be a crime if you get rid of the courts!