Economists say gas and wheat is cheap when you factor in range and inflation

[Saltwater60]

Here’s the narrative to help out Biden. That didn’t take long.

Gas prices are way up, but real cost of driving a mile was higher for most of the past century

Prices are rising fast and inflation is squeezing family budgets, but a little perspective is in order

www.marketwatch.com

 

[Apeman]

Gasoline cost $1.25 a gallon back in 1980, but the average worker was only making $6.75 an hour. It took the typical worker about 11 minutes to earn enough to buy a gallon of gas. Now with gas costing $4.17 a gallon, it takes a typical worker making $26.94 an hour just over nine minutes to earn enough to buy a gallon.

A lot of people don't even make $20/hour. Not a good way to spin the narrative using $26/hour as a reference when they were calling for $15/hour minimum wage.

 

[Saltwater60]

Gasoline cost $1.25 a gallon back in 1980, but the average worker was only making $6.75 an hour. It took the typical worker about 11 minutes to earn enough to buy a gallon of gas. Now with gas costing $4.17 a gallon, it takes a typical worker making $26.94 an hour just over nine minutes to earn enough to buy a gallon.

A lot of people don't even make $20/hour. Not a good way to spin the narrative using $26/hour as a reference when they were calling for $15/hour minimum wage.

They are using the average pay for Americans at around $60,000. I get your point and it’s very valid, but the average is a good reference point for obvious reasons.

 

[Podmonkey]

Anyone see the movie Hobo with a Shotgun? Remember thar razorblade encrusted baseball bat the Drake had? I'd like to take that bat and shove it up an economist's ass. Repeatedly. Then sideways for a while. While their spouse watches.


The Drake's bat had more Razorblades though.

 

[tirwin1]

Economist:. Someone who knows how to make love 100 different ways but doesn't know any women.

 

[SomeSoldier]

Gas and Wheat are also cheap if you a multi-millionaire.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Anyone see the movie Hobo with a Shotgun? Remember thar razorblade encrusted baseball bat the Drake had? I'd like to take that bat and shove it up an economist's ass. Repeatedly. Then sideways for a while. While their spouse watches.

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The Drake's bat had more Razorblades though.

Anger issues much?

 

[Podmonkey]

Anger issues much?

I thought that was obvious.

 

[Uzi]

I thought that was obvious. Plus I have a sadistic nature. I am in a near constant state of rage with a lifelong suppresed desire to hurt people. Very badly.

Sounds like you need some help. Like mental hospital type help.

 

[Podmonkey]

@Carlos Hathcock @Uzi
You don't think these elitist bastards and the lacky pundits that pump out their propaganda bullshit don't deserve any retribution for pauperizing us? Stealing our rights, destroying our way of life?
I think they deserve punishment is all.

 

[Saltwater60]

I thought that was obvious.

Don’t poke the bear is the saying right? What’s your avatar?

 

[Podmonkey]

Don’t pole the bear is the saying right? What’s your avatar?

A waving bear. I thought it was amusing. I am also fairly bear like in appearance. And temperament. I also very much enjoy salmon, sleeping and being left the hell alone. I take to being disturbed in these pursuits about as well as a bear also.

 

[meketrefe]

They use spaghetti tactics.
Toss it to the wall and see if the shit sticks.
Of course the clueless masses are easy to apease as they have zero critical thinking skills.

 

[spat]

Anger issues much?

The anger is just a symptom of the real issues...

 

[Cooolone]

The Politburo is at it again...

More party propaganda being distributed!!!

$5 per gallon is a lot more than $3, is plain and too fucking simple! But they keep smoking that shit!

 

[spat]

"A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.
The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The mathemetician replies "Four." The interviewer asks "Four, exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says "Yes, four, exactly."
Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The accountant says "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on average, four."
Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says "What do you want it to equal?"

 

[BerettaGuy]

The newsmedia is gaslighting us into being happy about high gas prices to protect Brandon.

 

[Vapor]

Cool, so when are you guys moving into a refrigerator box next to mine?

 

[spat]

The Politburo is at it again...

More party propaganda being distributed!!!

$5 per gallon is a lot more than $3, is plain and too fucking simple! But they keep smoking that shit!

"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?"

These guys think Orwell is a fucking instruction manual.