“When losses happen, somebody’s got to pay for it.”
Called Freedom Fuel Network, the enterprise encompasses dozens of gas stations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, USA Today reported, although it isn’t exactly clear which locations are open for business. Plastered in American flag decals and “Freedom Fuel” branding, the gas stations seem to be selling unleaded gasoline for the fixed-price of $3.47 per gallon, about 32 cents cheaper than the current average price in the US.
According to GasBuddy, nearby prices range from $3.85 to as much as $4.49 — no doubt reflecting the slower drip of oil from the president’s costly war on Iran, which burst back into active fighting this week.
As head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy Patrick De Haan told the Philadelphia Inquirer, the current price of crude oil means there’s no way Freedom Fuel’s $3.47 price point can turn a profit.
“Stations selling at this price, it’s not sustainable,” De Haan explained. “Generally, when losses happen, somebody’s got to pay for it.”
De Haan raises an obvious question: who is paying for it? If the stations are losing money on every gallon, somebody has to make up the difference somewhere — whether out of Trump’s pocket, that of a friendly donor, or the taxpayer’s. And if it’s a private company taking the hit, how long until they stop subsidizing Pennsylvania drivers?
Already, the stunt seems to be distorting local markets. As of Wednesday, a nearby Sam’s Club in Dresher dropped its price to match the $3.47 figure — surely good news for anybody buying gas in South Eastern Pennsylvania, but as always, the devil is in the details.
“gas”
Considering they already lifted regulations on percentage of ethanol added I can only assume this is %15 gas lol
Bottoms up, bois!
Trump is going to go down in history as the most successful career criminal ever.
This is like something out of a third world country. “Here is some cheap gas so keep supporting me.”
The Roman’s what? If you pluralize that way, why not also write year’s?
I would argue in some (not all) ways, the US is third world. So…yeah.
This is like something out of a third world country.
In many important ways, the U.S. already is. Especially in certain parts of the country.
We’ve always been a hood rich country
This is all you need to know.
Oh shit
Get an electric vehicle and install solar panels ASAP.
My brother in Christ, I own nothing and am going back to Monke. Like fr fr.
Be the change.
I am being the change. No kids. Electric vehicle. Don’t eat beef. Actively post about climate change. Promote solar/nuclear power. We can’t go back to monke, we must move forward.
Together we have hope. We will never meet and live far away from one another, but we are not alone and one day we will prevail.
Sometimes we need to go back to monke to remember what is is to be man.
One love.
Did you let them take your future family away or did you never want one?
Can’t speak for the other being, but I have no desire to inflict this world upon another conscious entity. To do so would just be fucking cruel, knowing what’s coming.
Government subsidized gas is not an issue. But that’s not what’s going on. Trump is pocketing the money, cutting the gas with something else, selling stolen gas, or using tax payer funds for it (the last of which is whatever), but whatever he is doing isn’t being done out of the goodness of his heart.
All that Venezuelan oil has to be going somewhere. And someone who isn’t the Venezuelan or American Govt is getting paid.
He’s just using it short term to gain fame and when he runs out of gas he says it’s the dems fault. Then the magats cheer
50% water
And making people drive all over looking for it. So you get “E85” (I can guarantee it’ll be closer to the 50% ethanol than the 80% side), long lines, more traffic and a bad reputation for the gas stations where people buy bad gas.
No cars specifically without flex fuel can run on anything over E85. He’s just draining reserves.
Maybe stock but people tune older cars to run on E85 all the time
If you need to tune the car for it to handle the fuel, it wouldn’t go unnoticed is the point.
He paid a bunch of existing gas stations to change their name and lower their prices. He will make up the difference by subsidizing the gas stations using tax payer money. I guarantee you this will not be noticed by the majority.
not by the trump bumpkins, they see this as a win, eventhough its not.
Maybe trumps gambit will be our first step towards socialism. Stranger things have occurred.
Willing to wager these gasoline inventories are getting diluted well beyond our normal summer blend thresholds.
“Out of Trump’s pocket” LMAO whatever they’re on, I’d like to have some.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2210988/donald-trump-giving-communism-try-government-approved/
When I first heard this story, the article gave me a laugh.
Communism is when gas prices low.
Couldn’t you say that all US gas stations are suspiciously cheap? This is just a little more straightforward, but it is a pretty subsidized industry. Unless I’m thinking about that wrong.
Honestly, how do most countries gas stations work, do they purchase fuel from the government?
Come join the anticommunist Republican party. They’ve got:
- Price controls
- Closed markets
- State-owned industry
Edit adding a 4th
- The living-or-dead status of party members as closely guarded state secrets
- State approved media
Oh yeah thats a good one
All my libertarian friends hate it, but somehow keep voting for it.
Libertarians are just conservatives + weed - religion. They claim to not be cons but still vote 100% in that direction
Libertarians are just insanely stupid people who wish to appear intelligent. Because they think those views make them seem intelligent, lol
Libertarians are just the ideological opposite but intellectual equivalent of tankies.
A number of the ones in my acquaintance circles are just being propagandized.
The first 10 or so talking points speak well to prepper adjacent and it kinda feels like it wouldn’t be that hard for things to fall over. Then they start the fiscal republican tract, so their businesses can make as much money as possible.
By the time they get down to the nuts and bolts of what a true free economy would look like, they check out with we’d figure that out real quick instead of figuring out that it’s just another pyramid scheme putting their own people in absolute power stealing every last cent of money that goes to keeping up roads and anything having to do with food provisioning and safety.
Yeah my assessment is too simplistic. First, the person is looking to find a way to codify their self-serving desires (ie. the business owner like you mention). Then they decide it needs to sound smarter than it is. BOOM: libertarianism is the perfect fit. Or at least that’s always been my impression. When they try to explain their views, they seem really focused on how much sense they make and how logically consistent they are being. Inconvenient facts are never acknowledged though, of course.
100% agree
What else would they do?
Vote for a democrat?
I’m hoping they keep their asses at home…
I suppose they must not live in a state with a modern voting system. Staying at home shouldn’t proclude anyone from voting, but here we are.
Well yeah, but “staying home” is a colloquialism for not voting. I don’t think that meant that mail in voting is bad.
I knew what they meant obviously, and I didn’t think they were saying mail in voting was bad, but I will admit it took me a half second to remember that some states still require in-person voting.
This is also coming from someone who learned that going to the polls wasn’t a historical thing when I was like 22, when polls being closed made national news or I saw a article about how racist/classist in-person voting was or something. I always just thought America had moved on from that a long time ago, as I grew up in Washington, and I didn’t know a time when my parents had to vote in person. One of the many things keeping me attached to this state I suppose.
If only their purity testing was as strong as the left’s
If they want less authoritarianism, yes!
Or better yet, somebody who calls themselves “socialist” or “progressive,” because at least they tend to be decent on civil rights, if not necessarily stuff like economic policy. It’s ridiculous, but Bernie Sanders is one of the most actually-libertarian people in Congress.
If some of the “progressives” could give up on some of their overly-bureaucratic ideas with excessive means-testing (like welfare instead of UBI, “affordable” [i.e. “subsidized”] housing instead of zoning reform to reduce costs, etc.) they’d be perfect actual-libertarian candidates.
I mean, what choice do they even have? They have to vote R.
No they don’t. Lots of (D)s, and even the occasional (I) like Bernie Sanders, are less authoritarian than pretty much every single (R) is these days.
Libertarianism is not a real ideology. Its just three raccoons in a trench coat. Anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in terms.
Yes, because supporting the GOP means they get to use slurs again. Thats what really matters.
Also: do they really hate it, tho?
The ones I talk to do.
They’re still your friends?
It’s owned by Trump not the state. Closer to authoritarian dictatorship than communism.
Where’s the fuel coming from though? I wouldn’t be surprised to find that it’s from Venezuela and he’s literally stealing it via the US government to sell himself.
They’re the same picture. (The former, that is.)
Silly person, that’s not what communist means. It means “anything/anyone we don’t like.”
It’s more of an amorphous ideal than a concrete set of “rules”.
Close, communism is anything they think they can’t profit from.
Any time you step out of the classroom political labels become meaningless.
“Capitalist” America built a giant interstate highway network that seized millions of acres of private land.
“Communist” China has a few score billionaires.
And don’t get me started on the National Socialist Party and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
and it will be as shit as if it were run by commies
get it now?
Confused where he has got this chearp fuel from - is he selling the reseve?
Venezuela maybe?
The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis
He’s draining our reserves. God we’re fucked.
Destroying our nation and our futures for a born rich felon pedophile.
I think we all know by now collapse is inevitable
Just trying to figure out where to move my 401k at this point. It’s completely out of tech now though.
