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News & Current Events Mar 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Soaring gas prices and supply chain disruptions drive up costs across the economy

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Soaring gas prices and supply chain disruptions drive up costs across the economy
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Soaring gas prices and supply chain disruptions drive up costs across the economy
U.S. consumers, already feeling pain at the gas pump, can expect higher prices and prolonged shortages for goods of all sorts, including food, as additional consequences of slowed oil production.
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TemporarySun314 Mar 28, 2026 +24
Americans had a choice in 2024, and they chose this. Unfortunately their choices also affect the rest of the world, who did not had any say in all of this..
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Billy_Thrillz Mar 28, 2026 -25
Average gas prices were higher under Biden, who also wrecked our SPR. Do some research. You’re absolutely correct Americans chose this, and for good reason
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fungobat Mar 28, 2026 +5
And why were gas prices higher when Joe Biden was POTUS?
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Bulky_Promotion_5742 Mar 29, 2026 +4
That’s the question never asked. Let’s say Americans did nothing the result is still the Same. It seems most the world had common sense. What’s being done currently, is many sycophants are filling their pockets.
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fungobat Mar 29, 2026 +3
Thank you. I'd buy you a beer if I could (and if you drink).
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Bulky_Promotion_5742 Mar 29, 2026 +5
I do and appreciate the offer!
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fungobat Mar 29, 2026 +3
Cheers!
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radicalelation Mar 29, 2026 +5
[OPEC decided to cut production just before mid-terms](https://theintercept.com/2022/10/20/saudi-oil-production-cut/), and prior to that the global market overall was still coming down from COVID. [Following that, Biden's admin actually pushed increased production, refinement, and transport](https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables), helping keep prices in relative check until recently. [If you you have SPR concerns, the Trump administration is doing the same](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-release-of-strategic-reserve-would-put-u-s-supplies-at-lowest-levels-in-44-years/), ensuring to keep shy of Biden's "biggest" historical tap as to not take the crown there, despite being the cause for needing to tap it.
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caitnicrun Mar 28, 2026 +2
They want a grifter pedophile rapist as a president?
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TemporarySun314 Mar 28, 2026 +3
And then Americans wonder why nobody likes them...
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Avoidtolls Mar 28, 2026 +9
Christian Conservatives: The price of Freedum
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Virtual-Squirrel-725 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Lucky the war was over three weeks ago and gas prices will plummet.
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Intel-Source Mar 28, 2026 +4
$7 in California!
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thepartypantser Mar 28, 2026 +9
It's important to note, inflation, and supply chain issues under Biden were do almost entirely due to the effects of COVID. There are valid arguments to be made that the stimulus package that Biden put forth may have been too large, and that encouraged inflation, but it is important to remember coming out of covid was the reason for virtually all of the economic issues people faced during the Biden presidency. That colored everything. You can blame Biden all you want, but realistically much of what he was blamed for was not his fault because every other country was going through the same thing and our domestic policies was not the major cause. That is not the case now. It's important to know that everything moving forward with inflation and supply chain disruptions and gas prices are entirely caused by the incompetence and stupidity of the Trump administrations situation with Iran. They are the kid that deliberately spilled the milk on the floor, and then cried over it. Trump created this situation by pulling out of the accords that were negotiated that were working, simply because Obama had signed them. This invasion was a bad idea. We are in a quagmire now, and the economic fallout from it will likely take years to sort out. And the Trump administration owns it 100%.
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Intel-Source Mar 28, 2026 +5
$9 a gallon gasoline is coming.
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JeffSteinMusic Mar 28, 2026 +10
another episode of “Things That Can And Will Happen When The Vast Majority* Of Free-Willed Adults In America Absolutely Refuse To Care About Their Own Governance” [32% voted Republican in 2024 + 37% couldn’t be bothered to vote at all = 69% = Vast Majority]
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Practical-Object9298 Mar 28, 2026 +8
People who did not vote should be blamed and are worthy of contempt. They are no better than MAGA.
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Practical-Object9298 Mar 28, 2026 +5
It's a participatory democracy. It's possible to do two things at once: Vote when there are elections and use the time in between to actually participate in the democracy to promote change. Your attitude of "I didn't get what I wanted so I'm going home" is childish thinking. You got the government you deserve. Stop complaining.
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Practical-Object9298 Mar 28, 2026 +3
I'm not referring to someone who would otherwise vote but was actively prevented from doing so by all the things you mentioned - which are true things that are happening and affect millions. I'm referring to the "enlightened centrists" who have "risen above the left/right paradigm" who insist that voting does not matter and can't be bothered to even show up at a county party meeting to, you know, participate - in the participatory democracy. 
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FancyEmployee8672 Mar 28, 2026 +7
toss out the electoral college system
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geoffvro Mar 28, 2026 +2
I agree, but Trump still would have won
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FancyEmployee8672 Mar 28, 2026 +6
Not for the first term — would have nipped this shit in the bud
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GreenTrees797 Mar 29, 2026 +2
Pretty comfortable with my EV purchase today. 
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FuzzyExplanation7380 Mar 29, 2026 +3
Good for you! Not sure why more people aren't lining up to buy them.  They're better than gas cars in nearly every way!
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monthoftheman Mar 29, 2026 +2
Japan last week, 202 yen per liter, yesterday 176 yen per liter.
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