Lurker > Sackgurl

Its been pretty funny watching democratic politicians whove pushed policies to stifle oil production scramble to blame oil companies for their lack of production.

Crazy how many Dems ran on banning frac'ing and curbing domestic oil drilling in 2020.

Is this pre-tax?

For NYS the mean/avg is $38.83 but the median is $21.62

Median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $1,037 in the first quarter of 2022. Women had median weekly earnings of $939, or 83.2 percent of the $1,128 median for men. (See table 2.)

...or at least a misunderstanding of mean, median, and mode.

$26.94 an hour?

Well this person is out of touch.

People who believe gasoline prices have never been so high are suffering from what economists call the money illusion. Simply put, this means our brains are fooling us into thinking weve never had it so bad, when actually the cost of driving a mile in your gas-powered vehicle is now lower than it was for most of the past century.
Yes, prices are up, but so are our incomes. And cars are much more efficient now than they were even 10 years ago.

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.
And that gallon of gas takes you a lot further, which is what you really should care about when you fill up your tank. The utility you can get from using that gallon of gasoline is the only thing that matters to you. What matters to politicians may be different.

I don't see any changes until some elite institution or private schools start getting shot up. I don't want that to happen I don't want anyone getting confused. Unfortunately these politicians don't take action until it effects them and even then there probably won't be much change. Just hope that your kids' schools aren't next.

Going "Well sure but it's the system he should be mad at. Not the guy constantly harrasing, endangering and abusing him." is just an inhuman response.

My main point of contention is about the semi automatic ban and your notion that if there is a violent response then it will still be worth it. The whole idea here is to reduce gun deaths. Idk what level of violence there could be in response and I can acknowledge a reduction long term may not be a reduction right now.

Not exactly against that policy, but I feel we need to be pretty open to what level of violence could the response be and what level of violence could we accept as backlash to this potential ban.

If you want to ban semi automatic rifles, fine, just say that.

regardless this is all while talking about hunting.

it's a decent varmint gun, for shooting rabbits and coyotes.

obligatory, again:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/2/AAEhCpAABoYC.png

Probably not a goddamn thing, if the first two years of the Trump era are any indication.
Well, there was a lot of token platitudes appealing to the base, but nothing actually useful apart from hemp liberalization.

k, i'm gonna "both sides" this.
Giving yourself a political weapon is short term thinking. Your opposition will eventually have that weapon too.

It was satisfying seeing Sackgurl tear his "Biden is responsible for high gas prices" statement apart to the point he just posted random non connected statements.

Kinda feels like things might start changing for the better. At least a little bit.

Biden needs to work on his messaging. His administration says things like it's all Russia's fault but ignores that fact that gas prices and inflation have been going up steadily before the war.

I wonder if I can leverage gas prices into a WFH situation...

Idle fields can become active. That's the entire strategy of the Alberta oilsands - they're a waste of time, until petroleum hits a specific market price.

True, but the speculative effect makes that feather fall faster.

Stop stonewalling petroleum leases.

The gas station isn't charging you for the gas that's already there. It's charging you for what's in the next tanker truck.

Gas prices are. Or rather, Biden administration's policy put us in a state where the supply shock from Russia's adventurism in Ukraine screwed everything up extra hard.

Go look at the Senate voting records and tell me how every ill in society is the fault of 2 Democrats

I could have sworn that the mythbusters showed that it's actually pretty hard to do ignite gasoline with electricity

I agree but jesus, how many red flags can someone put up before it's a bad idea to marry them and have children with them? these women in Elon's life are constantly dazzled by the insane amount of wealth to the point that they marry a cringe a****** nerd and are surprised hes abusive. its shocking how many people will ignore every warning sign and previous behavior because of wealth. grimes and amber heard did as well

The deputy who tackled Barreto also suffered third-degree burns to half of his body.

or maybe its entirely possible to think both

You forgot taxes out of those wages.
And health insurance.
And a vehicle.
And insurance for that.
These things alone will consume (and likely exceed) that $760 you say is left over in this pipe-dream of a budget. And this doesn't even cover incidentals like emergencies or circumstances unique to the individual.

Sorry you don't like the truth.

Try not spending your money on frivolous things that you don't need and maybe you won't have so much money trouble.

I love how this topic was just about some people being generous and CE had to throw a ton of labels and generalizations to large portions of the population.

classic

If she can't live on $16 an hour then she fucked up her finances pretty bad. That's definitely not a comfortable wage by any means, but it's also definitely enough to afford rent/utilities/food/essentials unless she has other debt to deal with.

Giving Congress something to tout as a victory in the movement for reform, without actually having to change the way they do things? Its the Democrat modus operandi.

But there's a whole host of campaign finance laws around what you can't use campaigns funds for, so I don't even know if that kind of situation is already illegal.

After retiring from Congress in 2017, she transferred her remaining campaign funds to a leadership PAC a common vehicle for current and former officeholders to put their unused donations to work on behalf of allied candidates.
Ros-Lehtinen's leadership PAC proceeded to spend those funds on among other expenses high-priced meals, lodging and even Disney World tickets.

The commission's three Republicans took a narrow reading of the law: the money was no longer bound by personal-use restrictions because it was no longer in a campaign committee's bank account, they ruled.
Its three Democrats argued for a more expansive interpretation: money raised by a campaign is still bound by personal-use restrictions, even if it's transferred to a different committee, they said.
The big picture: Whether or not Ros-Lehtinen's spending constituted personal use, the FEC's failure to move forward with an investigation effectively cements a standard that, good government groups warn, opens a huge campaign finance loophole.
"Republican FEC commissioners have now declared that members of Congress can take their campaign money with them when they leave office, as long as they launder it through a so-called leadership PAC," Adav Noti, Campaign Legal's vice president and legal director, told Axios.
"The commissioners position is completely contrary to law, and it could open the door to elected officials pocketing tens of millions of dollars."

So I completely agree with efforts to try and reduce corruption in campaign finance, but if I'm reading the article right one of the reasons why the Supreme Court voted in favor of Cruz is because the government wasn't actually able to bring a single example of the corruption that they were trying to prevent. This sounds more like a catastrophic failure of the prosecution than anything else.