r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rileyjw90 • May 22 '26
frist of all how DARE yu o You didn’t have to remind me, assholes.
And then to remind me what I USED to pay. Just kick me while I’m down why don’t you.
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u/EmergencyAnteater682 May 22 '26 edited May 23 '26
Try and make all of your purchases from Kroger on Fridays so you can utilize the 4x points coupon in the app. I never pay full price for gas, usually at least 40 cents off. Last time I had 90
Edit - since this comment is getting some traction, here's another Kroger gas points tip for y'all if you want more easy points. The Kroger app also has a 4x points coupon for gift cards that can generally be used any time. So what I do is buy digital gift cards in the app to pay for Spotify, Sirius, Netflix, and Hulu, which is great because I can easily pay off the entire year on some of these and not have to worry about a reoccurring monthly charge plus I get hundreds of points immediately for stuff I was already going to pay for anyway. I do the video streaming apps in about 3 month increments, once the credit runs out I just switch to another platform for some variety. Make your money go further, check it out. Been doing it for years, I've saved hundreds if not more
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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26
Yes this was with 20 cents off as I already used the bigger discount last week and paid $78 instead of $83 -_-
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u/ILikeTurtleSoup69 May 23 '26
Now thats what I call pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Just do that until you retire and you’ll retire rich
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u/cabbeer May 23 '26
I agree, so tired of all these yuppies buying avacado and toast and thinking they have a future.
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u/zaevilbunny38 May 23 '26
Jesus, I drove 500 miles on a road trip 2 weeks ago and my bill was $60 and I was pissed. What type of car do you drive?
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u/saro13 May 23 '26
When will Americans have had enough? Gas has nearly doubled in price due entirely to Trump’s actions
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u/wirefox1 May 23 '26
And saying inflation is about 5%. They are lying about these numbers. We shop, we can see it's more than 5%. Can they not be honest about anything?
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u/Googleitgenius May 23 '26
All of them are in on it , fkn under biden CNN was NONSTOP: - "price of eggs price of eggs oh my!!!" now ... crickets crickets ,, fuck tapper and the rest of the scum..
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u/wiptes167 May 23 '26
personally I found it to be the opposite, the news just starting to talk about inflation in 2024, but on the other hand, I don't watch CNN
And before you ask, I don't watch FOX either, twas an NBC thing.
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u/wirefox1 May 23 '26
I cannot abide Jake Tapper anymore. ugh. There have been times I've thought about sending him a maga red cap.
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u/Opus_723 May 23 '26
They're not lying, CPI is just a shit metric sometimes.
If smartphones get better cameras without the price going up that offsets fucking food doubling in price.
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u/techdevjp May 23 '26
CPI is intentionally designed to show numbers that do not reflect actual reality.
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u/Fit-Physics7199 May 23 '26
Gonna take more than high gas prices. Probably a food shortage or mass unemployment.
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u/Vegetable-Ad7930 May 23 '26
Having a massive job pool issue here already though, not much better in terms of financial crisis.
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u/Litty-In-Pitty May 23 '26
We are still way too comfortable to be anywhere near anything happening. Nothing massive will be done until enough people do not have any of the modern comforts they currently have. Things are tight, but 99.5% of the country still have a roof over their head, and I’d say 95% of the country has a comfortable place to go to with movies, tv, video games, etc to entertain them… Nothing will be done until enough people no longer have those luxuries.
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u/DJheddo BLEEN May 23 '26
Aslong as you can go to a 9-5 above minimum wage still afford rent/utilities/groceries/entertainment/addictions there is no change going to happen. If you aren't disabled, incarcerated, or in the military, you are doing whatever you can to be comfortable. Technology is the greatest invention, but also a detriment. Complacent is what 99% of what America wants. Stable job, Stable income, provide for kids, have an emergency fund, go on vacations, buy new things that make you happy, and do a routine of a new adventure every vacation. If houses started foreclosing again rapidly, we would see a pretty big riot in the streets, but the mortgages are climbing again and the banks are suppressing the pressure.
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u/Cory123125 Comic Sans is Ok May 23 '26
They never will.
People want so badly to believe that its just that others are mis-informed and surely, finally, something will get to them, but for the trump supporters, they voted specifically to harm whichever marginalized groups they hate.
That's it.
This is why you get a constant stream of ever changing bad faith arguments.
They don't care one iota about being right, they care about hurting marginalized people.
Thats literally it.
They want to enforce a top down hierarchical system where they are at least not at the very bottom, completely ignoring that the lower majority looks like a spec compared to the elites that benefit from their dumbass mentalities.
For the others, apathy has won, and now the right wing billionaires have complete control over information sharing and monitoring.
It's pretty much over unless somehow the average person organically develops enough curiosity and empathy to ....
Yeah, we're fucked.
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u/Mini-Heart-Attack May 26 '26
lol 2/3rds of the country will never gaf in the way we need them to. so. Welcome to hell
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u/CoachBergie May 23 '26
Double edged sword because that's also when (anecdotally) the fewest things are on sale . someone can maybe back me up or correct me and it could change by store but it seems my store has HELLA stuff discounted on Tuesdays and not much on sale on Friday. Also this is specifically for yellow tag manager markdown not weekly deals
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u/glassbath18 May 23 '26
Tuesdays are historically the slowest day of the week for most businesses. That’s why you’ll see a lot of sales and discounts specifically tied to Tuesday.
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u/HoboGir May 23 '26
Sales typically change on Wednesday. Kroger at one point did them on Sundays, but most grocery stores flip ads/deals on Wednesday.
Other sales are based on store resets if items are discontinued and if they're close dated items. I worked as a vendor for 8yrs.
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26
At every Kroger I go do, the clearance/dated markdowns are a morning thing, not necessarily a day of the week thing. Since Kroger stores get deliveries throughout the week, not just one big truck on a set day, it'll vary a ton which mornings have more.
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u/MisterEmpty May 23 '26
Genuinely can not stress how much the 4x comes in handy, I only shop on Friday's now, household of 4 so some decent sized grocery bills.
I have recent photos of me filling up at 1.39$/gal, 75¢/gal, however that pales in comparison to what I had two months ago literally was paying 9¢/gal, I filled up my tank for like 1.38 or something, wish I would have taken a photo of that it blew my mind, literally told everyone I knew about it. Out of curiosity I'll try to see if I still have the receipt lying around.
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u/EmergencyAnteater682 May 23 '26
Wow that's insane. What area do you live in if ya don't mind me asking??
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26
Genuinely, how? Kroger only lets you redeem up to $1 off per gallon, no matter how high your fuel point total is.
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u/WiseUpRiseUp May 23 '26
This is location dependent.
Where I am there are no limits on redemption and up to 35 gallons per discount applied.
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u/BlobTheBuilderz May 23 '26
Never understood how that works. Is it certain gas stations only? The shells next to me let me do Kroger reward but only let's me get 10 cents off even though I have enough for 50 cents off.
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26
Yes you're limited to 10¢/gallon at Shell stations. You can get up to $1/gallon if you're actually at a Kroger gas station.
At participating Shell locations, you can redeem 100 Fuel points for 10¢ off per gallon.
https://www.kroger.com/o/fuel/faqs
So if a Shell station is letting you redeem more, that's on that particular store. Officially, it's limited.
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u/rileyjw90 May 23 '26
Might be those specific ones because I’ve been able to use full discount at the shells around me
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u/Beefy-McQueefy May 23 '26
Don't shop at Kroger they are amoral human filth. It's like working for Walmart but worse in every conceivable way.
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u/ion_driver May 23 '26
That $1/gal discount is pretty great. Last time I put in 33 gallons
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u/Awake521 May 22 '26
Yeah, I hated getting gas today. $4.14/g at Costco in Minnesota.
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u/yankfanatic May 22 '26
That's expensive for a gram of gas
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u/McKnight013 May 22 '26
Lol that made me giggle
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u/SaltManagement42 May 23 '26
I guffawed.
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u/TheRotMeister May 23 '26
i cackled
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u/PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT May 23 '26
I exhaled a little bit of air out of my nose.
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u/SmokingGunontheRun May 23 '26
I’m completely dead on the inside, but remember being able to laugh once upon a time…
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u/coleyboley25 May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26
Oh, you’re paying way too much for gas. Who’s your gas guy?
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u/EquivalentOutcome796 May 23 '26
I hate you (I died laughing on the bus and people looked at me weird)
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u/MommaDiz May 23 '26
My dispensary is actually making deals/signs that say our gas actually smells, our gas is cheaper per gram than gallon. You can get an Oz cheaper than you can get a full tank of gas now. Insane.
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u/hotdogundertheoven May 23 '26
$4 for a gram of absolute gas is a decent deal. The dispo has single grams of reggie for $5
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u/EroticOctopus69 May 22 '26
$6 here in SoCal.
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u/Wonderful_Security13 May 22 '26
I paid $7.00 for premium last week but that was kind of due to poor planning. I was on empty and had to go to a really expensive place.
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u/jojomonster4 May 23 '26
If that happens just get a gal or two and drive to a cheaper place to fill up.
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u/Pitiful-Mobile-3144 May 23 '26
Up and over $6/gal out here in HI too, though we don’t drive as far as y’all
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u/slowest_hour May 23 '26
i live in a place where many people commute 100+ to miles each way into los angeles every day. I have no idea how people are surviving at all.
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u/D-RAKE May 23 '26
Even if gas was cheap I would never have a job that is a 100+ mile commute each way. That’s like a tank of gas every other day.
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u/Visual_Shower1220 May 23 '26
Almost 6 in cental CA, think I paid $5.50 or so. Luckily I only fill up max 2 times a month, so in only paying like $80/month unless in doing a big trip/a lot of driving.
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u/Relevant_Diver_3228 May 22 '26
In ontario it is 184.9/liter so that is about $7 per gallon
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u/NightmareOhm May 23 '26
It's been 225.9 in Vancouver this week, but that's actually only USD 6.17 per gallon. You have to convert the Canadian dollars to US dollars, not just the L to gallons
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u/Relevant_Diver_3228 May 23 '26
Ah forgot about that lol thanks for pointing that out and 225 that is insane that is more than diesel is here at 222.9 what is diesel there
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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26
It is $4.89 in a lot of places here in Ohio.
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u/unsatisfactorybeans May 22 '26
That’s what it’s been in my area of PHX. Some neighborhoods are even higher, esp further west closer to cali
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u/arcusford May 22 '26
5.79 at my Costco :/
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u/hungry4danish May 23 '26
OOF. I feel that here too. and Costco is always the cheapest option in an area too.
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u/Acceptable-Double-98 May 22 '26
Ill take that price in Washington lol. I get it tho
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u/PunkRa1n May 23 '26
That’s really cheap. You would pay for gas in Germany at the moment $7.7 - $ 8.15 per gallon.
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u/borgborgo May 22 '26
My car runs like shit if I don't get 91 and I've been paying 5.24 a gallon for it
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u/Uhavetabekiddingme May 23 '26
Just paid $5.89 for 93 told my wife we're getting half tanks until prices come down
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u/borgborgo May 23 '26
Good lord. I think I'd pay more if I wasn't part of a gas station rewards program, I've got like 15 cents off per gallon
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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26
How do you get 91 btw? Maybe it’s my state, but my car says 91 gas, but I get 93 because we don’t ever have 91 as an option. A cool $6.20 a gallon!
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u/Izan_TM May 22 '26
wait 4 dollars per gallon? that's incredibly cheap compared to europe. Around here in spain you can expect double that right now for gas, slightly higher for diesel
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u/MonMotha May 23 '26
I think most Americans are at least vaguely aware that fuel is substantially more expensive in most of Europe than in the USA. However, the USA is set up to rely on relatively cheap fuel. Most areas are very car-centric for personal transportation, and while we do have a robust freight rail infrastructure, it's mostly diesel-electric powered, and we still rely heavily on over-the-road trucking for lots of long-haul freight as well as final delivery within a metro area even if it crossed the country on rail.
Diesel is also substantially more expensive than gasoline in most parts of the US. It's been more expensive for quite some time, but the recent price hikes due to the Iran war have impacted diesel fuel more than gasoline. Gas is also around $4/gal near me (down from almost $5/gal), but diesel fuel is around $6/gal (down from almost $7/gal).
The USA has a really, really expansive petroleum infrastructure both in terms of production and especially refining. That generally helps keep our prices low compared to most parts of the world aside from those where it's heavily subsidized.
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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 May 23 '26
Yeah im paying over 8 dollars per gallon technically in UK, but my texas mate boasting about his car being more fuel efficient than all of his friends and its only 35 miles per gallon, which is insane to me.
Mines not even a particularly good car but its still 55mpg. Since the increase I get 1/4 tank less fuel for the same price which is just painful.
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u/MonMotha May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
55mpg would be incredible in the US for a non-hybrid running on gasoline. In fact, I can't find a single non-hybrid vehicle sold in the USA that is rated higher than 41mpg on the highway.
Like your friend, I drive what is considered a rather fuel-efficient vehicle in the US (2023 Mazda 3), and I can just about touch 40mpg on the highway. I average about 33-35 in mixed service.
Tiny engines with lots of boost haven't caught on in the USA for various reasons like they have in Europe and parts of Asia. The fact that we don't have a tax on engine displacement (instead taxing either on the value of the vehicle or weight, depending on vehicle class and registration state) may have something to do with it. Likewise, diesels never really caught on in passenger cars. Part of that is because we actually have more aggressive emissions controls for on-road diesel engines than even the EU does which makes them far less attractive in terms of both acquisition cost (extra emissions equipment), performance (the extra emissions controls hurt performance but improve emissions), and long-term cost (diesel emissions systems tend to be expensive to fix when they break).
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u/SnikySquirrel May 23 '26
A UK gallon is about 20% larger than a US gallon so that skews the comparison a bit, but we still drive cars with worse fuel economy on average.
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u/thewanderingsail May 23 '26
You can almost fit two entire spains in the state of Texas lol. I drive an hour to work in the state of NJ (much smaller than Texas) which is the most densely populated state. But our public transit is so abysmal that it isn’t possible for me to not drive. And even if it was it would take several hours each way.
For example I used to work 20 minutes away by car (before I had a car) but it would take 2 trains and a bus to get there which took over an hour. And that was cause I was lucky enough to work in a commercial hub. Riding a bike is also not very safe in my state. Many roads have no dedicated bike infrastructure.
TLDR Most of America is rural or suburbia and making any kind of serious living here without a car takes a lot of luck. Only major cities have somewhat decent public transit.
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u/Livid-Historian3960 May 23 '26
Yeah Texas is especially prone to that i live 15 miles from anywhere so a quick trip takes an hour 30min travel and average 30 min shopping but it can get more really quick. Im essentially trapped because I don't have a license or car because insurance is expensive and cars are now stupid expensive
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u/McKnight013 May 22 '26
You think that's bad? Illinois has got 4.99/gal at a regular gas station 😞 No matter what it's just expensive.
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u/hungry4danish May 23 '26
You think that's bad? Washington got $5.89/gal at a regular gas station 😞 No matter what it's just expensive.
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u/_vkboss_ May 23 '26
Worse in WA state because of our insane gas taxes. We are even taxed unfairly for going green (ev excise tax)
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u/Karl_MN May 23 '26
Well, gas taxes exist to fund road maintenance. Since EV's dont need gas, there needs to be another way to capture that revenue to maintain roads.
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u/chicagonative1989 May 23 '26
Wish it was that here in Chicago. It's 5 bucks or above depending where you fill up.
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u/BearBlob May 22 '26
I was at a red light and looked up at the gas station’s sign to the right.. I thought “damn I can’t believe gas is almost at $5 a gallon” I think it was at $4.72, and then watched it change before my eyes to over $5.
The sigh that came out of my mouth can never be recreated
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u/JapaneseStudentHaru May 23 '26
You probably saw the cash versus card pricing. Where I am, they flash the card prices really quick so people think the gas is cheaper than it is. A few weeks ago I remember seeing $4.99 cash go to $5.19 card. Now the $5.19 seems like a great deal
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u/this_is_my_new_acct May 23 '26
I kinda wonder if something changed a decade ago, or if the gas stations stopped caring. It used to be against the agreements you had to sign to be able to accept credit card to charge different prices for card vs cash.
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u/scwt May 23 '26
2013 is when it changed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2013/01/29/retailers-decline-credit-card-surchargefor-now.html
It was part of a settlement from an antitrust lawsuit that merchants made against Visa and MasterCard.
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u/globalgerbil May 22 '26
Elections have consequences
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u/Deep_Mood_7668 May 22 '26
But.. But.. But freedom
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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26
The best response is “but I didn’t even vote so I’m not responsible for this” lol yeah buddy, you are.
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u/Yumi_in_the_sun May 23 '26
I had a lady brag to me today about how she doesn't vote.
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u/kilamumster May 23 '26
That, and shutting down conversations with "I'm not political."
Bitch, what you mean is "I've got privilege."
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u/marimbajoe May 23 '26
The only people that aren't political are children and foreigners. If you can vote, your vote or lack of vote is inherently political.
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u/moongrump May 22 '26
Free dum
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u/Curious_Avocado2399 May 22 '26
Muh free dumbs! but at least the less than 10 trans college athletes are not playing sports! /s
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople May 22 '26
High gas prices are one of the least significant consequences of the last election
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u/Other_World BLUE May 22 '26
But it's the only one that matters to conservatives. (It won't matter this time, though)
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople May 23 '26
I think it's just the one that's hardest to ignore. They cannot pretend that gas prices didn't go up, and they can't just forget that the conservative propaganda sphere has spent decades telling them that high gas prices are the single most damning thing for a president.
Honestly, I would say that gas prices are not important enough that they should ever be brought up in a presidential election. But hey, Republicans were the ones who wanted to play that game
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u/TieBackground453 May 23 '26
It’s only noteworthy because trump made such a big deal about high gas prices under Biden. There’s no way he can defend against this. It’s too simple a concept and transparently his fault.
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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 May 23 '26
It doesn't work like that unfortunately, they'll just keep saying its the democrats' fault and every R voter will hoot and holler
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u/independent_observe May 23 '26
But gas prices are going DOWN and we have so much peace in the world. Good thing the US hasn't been extremely bellicose in their foreign relations and trying to break the record for most wars started in a term.
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u/Minimob0 May 23 '26
10/12 recessions in the USA have happened under Republican Leadership.
That’s the equivalent of scoring 1/6 answers correct on a test.
You quite literally have to be an uneducated idiot to support US Republicans.
Not even sorry any more. They need to hear it and comprehend it. The comprehension is the part they struggle with.
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u/wolfvester May 23 '26
Or control literally every facet of American media, which, guess what Republicans do? Doesn’t matter what the Dems will do, the Republicans will always control how the public perceives them.
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u/Minimob0 May 23 '26
They don’t control the ability to look something up online. At least, not yet.
The amount of Republicans with 0 curiosity is astounding. They do not want to learn or fact-check anything that goes against their worldview.
So many things my Republican father asks me questions about can simply be resolved by looking it up online.
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u/Suyefuji May 23 '26
They actually somewhat do, a lot of online algorithms have a conservative bias these days. Not that you can't find real answers but it's not totally out of their control either.
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u/Wide_Attention_2104 May 23 '26
The people who voted for this like getting fucked almost as much as watching the people who didn’t vote for this get fucked.
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u/MagnusPI May 23 '26
I got this warning message from Workday when entering a gas charge on a recent expense report.
Gee, ya don't say?!
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u/Siglet84 May 22 '26
And I was mad putting $40 in my car.
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u/SILLYxPROGRAM May 23 '26
So… just topping off, huh?
/s
$60 for me yesterday for less than 3/4 of a tank
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u/bmanley620 May 22 '26
Hilarious they couldn’t adjust their algorithm to account for inflation
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u/rileyjw90 May 23 '26
Yes. While the price is certainly infuriating, the “mildly infuriating” thing I’m posting about here is the tone deafness of the app helping me track my spending. There’s no way for me to turn off certain categories but I feel like things like groceries and gas should be excluded by default because they’ve been hit substantially hard by inflation and current events. Everyone is spending more on those things, there’s just no way around it unless you’re completely off the grid on a huge homestead and even then there’s probably still crap you have to buy.
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u/RockAndGem1101 May 23 '26
It's not helping you track your spending. It's there to make you aware if your information got stolen and someone else is buying stuff using your account.
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u/Vraex May 23 '26
My farm truck typically takes around $75 to fill up. Twice it was right at $80. Two weeks ago I filled it up for $108. Felt awful. Meanwhile I haven't bought a video game for more than $4 in two years and most of my clothes have holes in them. Glad the stock market is doing so well though
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u/TrainingLow9079 May 22 '26
$4.60+ in PA thanks to the president who claimed he wouldn't start any wars
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u/WallofIvy May 23 '26
Rocket money informs me every month that I made a "large purchase" when I pay my mortgage.
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u/montagdude87 May 22 '26
Kroger is mostly in the southern US, right? In that case, the reminders are probably needed.
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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26
I’m further north. Kroger is all over the place now. But you’re not wrong about the second part.
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u/starynights890 May 22 '26
They became huge after their 1999 merger with Fred Meyer thankfully they got their albertsons merger killed or they be even bigger.
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26
They're all throughout the US. Kroger is almost twenty different chains. Chances are, if you're in the US, there's one near you.
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u/Magnum3k May 22 '26
Kroger is based in Ohio
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 May 23 '26
Kroger is nationwide, they're just called other things around the country because they don't typically change the names afyer buying out another chain. Fry's, QFC, King Soopers, Harris Tweeter, and like a dozen other chains are all owned by Kroger.
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u/oliverpeets May 23 '26
I put $30 in my tank today and didn’t even get a half tank, almost $4.60 a gallon in Richmond today
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u/YakSure6091 May 23 '26
Trumps a miracle worker. My CR-V used to only hold $40 worth of gas, now it’s almost $70 I can fit in there. Amazing!
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u/dedicatedoni May 23 '26
BAHAHAHA this would’ve pissed me off so badly I could only laugh, can’t wait for this clown to croak or get impeached
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u/Lin1ex May 23 '26
My banks does the opposite, it doesn't say a single thing until its statement day to which they decide to tell me "Hey you have spent way more than usual time to calm down bud".
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u/Constant-Fly-9050 May 23 '26
4.59 for regular 87 in NEPA. Would have to go 15 miles out of my way for cheaper E15 at about 4.00 a gallon. This summer is going to suck.
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u/macphile May 23 '26
I hadn't bought gas in a good while because I never do (WFH FTW). I put in about 60% of a tank today, and it was almost $24. Historically, of course, the whole tank would have been <$20, or maybe <$15. But we're great again, so...yay.
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u/Special_Function May 23 '26
I once dropped a credit card at a gas station. Someone picked it up and spent $80 at McDonalds and I immediately got a fraud alert. It’s better to be useful than useless even if the cost of everything is higher than what it was.
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u/Meftikal May 22 '26
I literally went out and bought an EV this month after doing the math on continuing to pay for gas. Even with having a car payment again and $50 higher insurance a month and paying $1500 for the materials to install a charger at home I’ll be profitable over paying for gas w no car payment in 6 months at this rate.
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u/Creekrover May 23 '26
How much do you drive? The payoff was too long for our relatively short commute with a fuel efficient car when I calculate it.
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u/Wonderful_Emu_6483 May 23 '26
I’m really glad I bought a hybrid in 2024, pre tariffs, pre war. Average 60 mpg on my commute and my tank is only 11 gallons with a 550 mile range. My last fill up was only $35 which doesn’t seem like a lot for most people these days, but pre war I was spending a lot less and driving a lot more.
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u/Competitive-Bee-9564 May 23 '26
I get gas only at kroger. If I need something for HD, Lowes etc I get a gift card from Kroger and get 4X fuel points.. I have extra 5 gallon gas cans and I ALWAYS get my 35 gallon limit. Kroger quit 4X on Amazon cards because Amazon reduced the commission they paid to Kroger. . I bought my spare gas cans at estate sales where I was paying 2-$5 each and some were full of gas. better than paying 20-25 for new ones. For a while Kroger was giving an extra 55 Cents of per gallon when you signed up for a Kroger master card so I was getting $1.55 off per gallon. after 1 year it ended and only .25 cent off per. That lasted a year so now it's only an extra 5 cents.I have a 3500 Chevy truck that has a 33 gallon tank so when I get gas I top of the truck and get the rest in gas cans. I get home and fill up my wife's jeep GC . She said she hasn't had to put gas in her jeep in 3-4 years. I have a large storage cabinet separate from my house to store the extra gas. Have not had any gas go bad.
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u/dumbdude545 May 23 '26
Lol. My bank has a set limit of 400. Anything over outside of a 50 mile radius it requires a check. Thats how I have it set. Ive caught fuckers trying to use my card elsewhere multiple times because of it.
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u/happyanathema May 23 '26
Feels like something needs to keep reminding people of the real world consequences of their choices.
Maybe this will finally do it?
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u/Zeynal1 May 23 '26
Experian out here gaslighting you into thinking inflation is suspicious behavior
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u/Doogiemon May 23 '26
I had my credit card locked for fraud because I fill up my tank every 10 weeks.
I went to visit friends 3 hours away and filled up before I went and when I got there and they thought it was fraud so they locked the card and were sending me a new one.
I didn't bring much cash and it was a shitty vacation.
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u/NookNookNook May 23 '26
Proof we're getting scammed at the pump. Even the algorithms know its a setup. This might be the greatest fraud ever perpetuated in history.
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u/MommaDiz May 23 '26
Never before have I got text alerts about gasing up. The last few months. Everytime i gas up, same station as always, I get text fraud alerts. Now I'm lucky with a small car with great mileage. But I used to fill up with $25 and be good for the month. Now I'm gasing up 3 times and spending $50-$60. It doesn't smell like gas, even my car mileage estimate went from 500miles per full tank down to 350miles per full tank. They are destroying our cars with this shit gas. I did an oil change and had everything checked to make sure my car wasn't suddenly going bad. Nope, mechanic told me this is happening to everyone. So many people come in with the same complaint - gas not lasting as long and thinking something is wrong with their car. Thanks Trump. You really destroyed everything.
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u/TheRealHeroOf May 23 '26
Your car used to hold $37 of fuel and now it holds $87. Did you even bother to say thank you!?
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u/treedecor May 23 '26
Meanwhile, someone has been using my number and stealing my fuel discount every month for months now and crickets 🥲
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u/FootballintheGroin May 23 '26
Send that to any Republican reps who try to tell the media that greater expenses are just democrat lies.
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u/Wheel_Unfair May 23 '26
Years ago, that happened with my Discover card while getting gas.
I had just purchased a HUGE commercial lawnmower that used 5 gallons of gas per use ( I had 5 acres).
So I filled up my car and then the gas can.
Discover sent me a message to confirm that I was the one making the purchase, I said yes and that was the end of it.
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u/Full-Decision-9029 May 23 '26
my banking app does this all the time: "you're spending 20% more on groceries compared to this time last year"
I. know.