George Takei sends his regards.
Try not to say it like him, I dare you.
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Theres no way…
This is a small price to pay. Putin’s war machine must be starved into submission.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1501218905158828035
nobody should have to wake up to this.
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I’m a huge fan of Costco for loads of reasons beyond even the gas discount and other great discounts (on rental cars, for instance). It’s a fun place to shop that actually treats its employees fairly well too. For the $60/year (or ‘included’ with the Costco Visa card), the membership makes a lot of sense assuming you have a physical location within a reasonable distance. Highly recommended.
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Plus Costco is LH-friendly, offering decent auto deals from time to time, and you would have needed to be a member before the offer to be eligible. Some here have a membership for that reason alone.
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I’m sure the folks already having to choose between the paying the light bill or shop for groceries will go to bed all warm and fuzzy on this. 
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In case this hasn’t gotten through to you yet, this is a global conflict. Everyone will be impacted by it in some way. Safe to say that a higher gas bill is probably the least disruptive of the ways to be impacted.
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Higher energy costs ripple out and affect…literally everything.
This can be mitigated sharply by increasing output on our own resources and dropping russian imports.
No no you’re right. And it looks like the administration is sitting around with its thumb up its ass rather than working to lift sanctions on venezuelan and iranian oil, while also pushing for ramped up shale production domestically, right?
You’re correct that higher energy costs will be a drag on economic growth around the world. Might even lead to a recession. Again, small price to pay to crush someone who has literally been screwing with us and the entire world for the past 20 years.
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Sorry, I don’t believe in trading one tyrant for another (or several others) when we have the resources to freeze them all out right here at home.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who will admit that sentiment, either.
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we have nowhere near enough resources to do that. in coordination with OPEC, we do, but it looks like MBS and his friends would rather listen to VVP than the country that’s providing them with arms and protection from iran.
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Also my gas bill for heating my house in December was $300 can’t wait to see what January’s was.
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The Keystone XL could have transported upwards of 800k barrels between the US and Canada. That project was nixed day 1, while at the same time we started importing 700k barrels of oil from Russia. Do you know how much $$$ that move alone put in Vlad’s military pocket? To this day, we are STILL importing from Russia and continuing to fund this megalomaniac’s evil ambitions. It’s time people who supported this administration take a dose of reality and pointed their outrage in the right direction, for once.
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agree that banning keystone was the incorrect move.
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Oil is a global commodity. It is never going to be substantially cheaper here than in London or Beijing. Domestic production protects us from price shocks not long-term cost fluctuations. We just can’t produce enough to keep prices low long-term, especially due to OPEC and induced demand. Even more so since North American shale production is fairly expensive. Domestic energy production is important but it’s not a magic wand to lower prices. It’s cents not dollars.
Real energy independence starts with some combination of renewables, nuclear and improved efficiency.
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Oil on election day 2020: $37 a barrel
Oil on February 14th 2022 (10 days before Russia invaded Ukraine): $95 a barrel
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Apples and oranges. Election Day 2020 most of the world was on lockdown. 10 days before Russia the economy was surging and we were coming out of a 2+ year pandemic.
Travel was opening up, more people commuting to work, more family vacations. More fuel being consumed than November 2020
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I heard an interesting point today, OPEC wants to keep the price of oil around $100 a barrel. At $100 a barrel fracking is profitable and then the US starts producing more oil domestically. Below a $100 a barrel we rely on OPEC more.
Not sure how true this is, just something I heard
To quote someone earlier in this thread:
I mean, I can’t imagine what could have possibly been affecting the global demand for oil in mid-late 2020 that would cause it to be so uncharacteristically low at that point. cough cough
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