This is basically self inflicted, as usual messing up in the Middle East always ends up with consumer paying the price for their ruler's stupidity

"Oh no, my drinking water tastes like crap after I pooped in the well"

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21asdffdsa12 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Eh, how is this self-inflicted, when you have a radical has-been-empire blocking a global arteries by waging relentless proxy wars. Stop it with the "only white people can be actors on the global stage"-ism, the us basically clashes with Iran once every president (directly or indirectly) - and not by choice.

	▲	iSnow 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Iran is a pain in the ass, but the latest round of escalation was started by Israel and the USA.
	▲	pixelesque 19 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It was blatantly obvious Iran would do that if attacked. This has been known for decades. The only thing previously stopping them holding the strait "hostage" was the threat from the US of doing an "Operation Praying Mantis v2" and destroying their navy and attacking them. And when the US did that anyway, they had nothing to lose.

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chii 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except the person doing the pooping doesn't drink from the same well as he's got his own private reserve supply.

	▲	21asdffdsa12 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, in the end, when the hoovervill goes marching- they do..
	▲	ragebol an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You mean he has his own private supply of poop that is involuntarily tapped into at any random moment?

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outside1234 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We can’t afford healthcare because they revoked the subsidies but at least we now also can’t afford gasoline too!

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jjav 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> We can’t afford healthcare because they revoked the subsidies but at least we now also can’t afford gasoline too!

But we can easily affort 500+ million per day for faraway foreign wars! That, no problem.

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throwaway473825 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

While this isn't the best way to address the issue, the US is way too dependent on gasoline/diesel for transportation. It's not sustainable.

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Retric an hour ago | parent [-]

Being unsustainable isn’t the same as breaking within the lifetime of the people making the decisions. The average US senator is 66, and that’s young compared to the current Supreme Court or the sitting President.

	▲	themaninthedark an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe Trump is secretly for "the green agenda" and this was all part of the plan to stop oil. He had that big falling out with Elon so that he can't be accused of pandering to him when electric car sales go through the roof. I have also heard that this is really "big oil's" plan, they always manage to cause a huge price spike just when green energy is about to take over the market, somehow this stops the green revolution and forces everyone to go back to using fossil fuels.

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anovikov an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

But unlike in the old days, US wins from higher prices. Even consumers wins (because they make more money on average, and their imported goods are cheaper because balance of payments shifts in US favour because of oil exports).

Voters are furious because of psychological factor of gas prices (purely psychological, it has nothing to do with economy or people's purchasing power). It bites politician's asses real hard.

So, Trump undermined himself by launching that war - but others are fine.

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cgio an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Do they make more money on average? Does any additional income cover the increase in cost of living? Becoming psychologically poor is much harder than becoming psychologically rich. I doubt that balance of payments goes anywhere near your average Joe’s pocket.

	▲	anovikov an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It absolutely does because balance of payments = exchange rate, and average Joe is poor and consumes disproportional part of imported goods vs the rich.

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dakolli an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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