How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?"

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    still $4.30 a week later
     
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    The cheapest here is $4.699/gal unless you have some sort of discount.

    I have two trips to Denver in the next two weekends. That will be about 1,400 miles of driving right there.
     
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    Uhp, crawled up another dime past national average here on Maui for bathwater, @$5.62 per.

    My Texaco's midgrade holds at $5.99, $0.20 more than others hock it, in that town. Then again, I will not put non-Top-Tier fuel in the 5G, and can afford mid-$30s for 5 gals, twice a month (y)
     
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    Down a dime today at my closest grocery-chain stations (non-Top-Tier), down a penny at the nearest Costco (which is Top Tier).

    Nearly all my local errands are within my PHEV's all-EV range, so gas purchases are linked only to road trips, and generally cheaper than local prices.
     
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    “Im not interested in people’s finances”
    Maga- “I’m not interested in my finances”
    So they go roll coal to prove it.
    Gas is up, never saw it this high. Most are over $6 for regular and the cheap stations too.
     
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    No, I just interested in the Arch of Trump, the billion dollar ballroom, and the non-reflecting swimming pool.

    Pay the insurectionist and the convicted criminals so they are financed to do it again.

    Then, I'll pardon them again.
     
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    FORM (Fuel & Oil Refresh Mode) on our plugin minivan runs after ~5 months until either 4+ gallons are added or when fuel tank drops to ⅛ tank remaining.
    Having refueled w/ cheap gas in January means FORM kicks in around 12 more days.
    FORM avoidance hacks;

    Disconnect 12v battery
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    Siphon 4 gallons then re-add
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    Scheduled 4hr trip to Happy Cove, Lake Coeur d'Alene in 10 days.

    Good to have alternatives
     
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    Isn't "anti-semitism" a common trope and dog-whistle to excuse the worst atrocities in the world?

    This pic was taken pre-AI, it's real, pictures don't lie.

    Is this what you're defending Fuzzy?

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    Weuuuuuu - scary ...... & evidently conspiratorial proof!
    Maybe a few con-trails sniffed too many?
    LOL
    Just for jolly's, here's a screenshot answer that Grok gave for percentages of multi-billionaires;

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    so - maybe that begs the question, how come the remaining 91% aren't in charge of the world.

    or is this just simple Envy of any ethnicity with tons of dough

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    Your numbers don't matter if they own the big banks, big media, all of congress, and Hollywood.

    It's amazing how Boomers support open Satanists just based on the propaganda they've been fed. Luckily they are the last generation that have fallen for it. Everyone else is waking up thank God.

    Is Epstein on your favorites list along with the Rothschilds? Does your bias let you look the other way when it comes to child trafficking?

    "As you probably know I represent the Rothschilds" Jeffrey Epstein
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    Your post proves my point. As of 2026, the world's Jewish population was estimated at 16.5 million, which is 0.2% of the 8.28 billion worldwide population.

    So they are .2% of world population but are also 9.1% of the Billionaires. So they are greedier and more manipulative than anyone else and it's not even close. And don't tell me it's because they are smarter, Israel IQ ranks 51st in the countries of the world. And the Rothschilds are not even on the Billionaires list, they are in the Trillions. But it's not the wealth by itself, it's the wealth combined with evil.
     
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    Not all of them obviously, population distributions being what they are, but clearly enough to matter. Jews hold roughly 22% of all Nobel prizes, which is 100X more than they would by fraction of the population. The Nobel prize committees are Scandinavian, an area with remarkably few Jews, so this isn't a case of "the fix being in". Note that in this instance a cultural emphasis on learning probably also played a role, as IQ isn't everything, but for the sort of work many Nobel laureates do, it is almost everything.

    Jews also are greatly over represented in numerous other fields such as law, medicine, engineering, and the arts.

    Trump isn't Jewish, and he would be a strong candidate for "greedier and more manipulative than anyone else and it's not even close".
     
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    & there it i's - cultures that encourage go-getters & their heritage are horrible - worthy of condemning in their entirety. LOL Cultures made up of contingents of thugs, female demeaning, drugs & fatherless homes? Shell out more handouts & that will be a perfect cure.
    There's is a well-known prophetic warning against moral inversion—redefining morality by labeling corrupt morals as good & judgmental righteousness as evil
    Isaiah 5:20
    But carry on. Isn't that how fascism started?
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    You mean like Bezos among many others not paying any taxes? Is that your heritage? How much is enough in wage disparity? 400 to 1 between them and the blue collar worker? 1000 to 1? 10,000 to 1? How much is enough? How many people should not be able to afford a house or even a rental and how many people should own 10's 100's 1000's of homes? I guess if you hate families that's ok.

    All of congress and the entire presidential admin can legally insider trade but the working class can't, are they "go-getters" or are they cheaters and thieves? Who's losing on the stock market when someone else is cheating?
     
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    It is funny when people are amused by their own ignorance.

    I took my first pictures of chemtrails in 1996 in central Oregon. The official government name for it is geo-engineering.

    It was officially admitted on video by the then secretary of defense over a decade ago.

    There are currently 8 states that have either banned it or are trying to pass bills against it. Florida, Montana, New Jersey, N Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont. There's also been a bill being pushed in the US Congress. Maybe you should notify all these states and DC that it's not real? Call up your local news, spread the word.

    There are grass root organizations that set out sterile sample collection trays and then submit them for chemical analysis. It's mostly Aluminum and Barium that is being sprayed. 100's if not 1000's of these tests have been conducted.

    Chemtrails are one of those things that you can directly prove to yourself personally in several ways. Which is way better than taking the word of Fox News, CNN, or Wikipedia. It's one thing to believe something through hearing, reading, or seeing video about it, it's more concrete if you witness it with your own eyes.

    One way is when you see a contrail and a chemtrail coming from the same jet. At first they would add chemicals to the jet fuel, so you can't tell in that case because it's not separate. But now the predominate method is separate spray nozzles. So you can see a jet with a contrail that dissipates immediately and a chemtrail that expands and grows, sometimes for hours or even the rest of the day depending on winds aloft.

    Another way is to study known commercial jet flight paths in your area. These paths are typically radial going straight between international airports. These are paths you will see planes on every day. In my area there are about 6 flight paths and they are all radial, none of them parallel. Commercial flights are typically the same week to week. When you see a checkerboard pattern with up to a dozen parallel trails (est. a few miles apart) going over in two perpendicular directions, you know that's not commercial jets.

    Another way is to monitor a smart phone flight tracker app like "Flightradar24". These apps track all planes with a transponder and even small private planes with no transponder (presumably through the ATC radar system). They typically post the tail number, the plane type, a stock photo, airline, and departure and destination info whether commercial or private. Occasionally you will see a plane that's tracked but no ID or info, so that's assumed to be government. The chemtrail planes are not shown at all, like they have no transponders or radar trace, which is not even officially legal.

    Another way is just frequency. For the past 8 or so years they've been spraying about 1/2 to 1/3rd of all days. This area has about 300 sunny mostly clear days a year. A typical week will be 3-4 days of clear blue skies (with normal jet contrails) and then 3-4 days of chemtrails from horizon to horizon for a few hours a day. Like the whole morning will be clear, and then suddenly in about an hour there's a checkerboard of trails covering the sky. When Trump first came back for his 2nd term there was a period of 2 or 3 months with no chemtrail activity at all.

    A while back I was at a neighbors holiday party and a drunk guy told me his relative flew military chemtrail planes, when I asked him later about it he denied ever saying anything. Rumor has it that the pilots they choose are lone wolves or players, guys without any kids.

    Don't take my word for it, or CNN, Faux News, Fakebook, Wikipedia, or Twitter (X), look for yourself.

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    Yes there are intelligent Jewish people, which ones are they? The Ashkenazis? The Shepardic? The converts? How come they don't allow DNA testing in Israel? If Israel is so smart how come they need $Billions of USA tax dollars annually to continue to exist as a country? Can't they just be self sufficient? Why does Israel have paid health care and higher education for everyone when the American taxpayers that help fund this don't have these things?

    Did Barack Obama get his Noble peace prize before or after he dropped so many bombs that the military at one point ran out of bombs? What does that tell you about Nobel prizes?

    Why do Bibi Netanyahu and Javier Milei have the same original (Ashkenazi) Polish last name? Why did they change their names? Does their DNA show they are biblical Jews?

    As of April 2026, the U.S. government is spending approximately $88 billion per month on interest payments for the national debt, which totals around $1.039 trillion annually. The "Federal Reserve" a consortium of private international banks led by the Rothchilds world bank "prints" fiat money out of thin air (actually just numbers entered in a computer) and loans it back to the government. And the principle never gets paid down, just the interest. Is this "greedier and more manipulative" than the numbers Trump is running?

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    So billionaires are evil because they are billionaires? That just sounds prejudice and ignorant. What's next, all Asians are great at math or all teachers are pedophiles??

    Don't fall for the old Marxist tactic of class warfare.....100 million dead people during the 1900's proved communism/socialism doesn't work.

    Martin Luther King had some good quotes to live by:

    "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

    "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

    “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
     
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    Some, not all, of Billionaires are evil because of the way they acquired their money.

    I have never advocated marxist/communism, that's a strawman argument. But some aspects of socialism do work. I live almost entirely of SOCIAL security. It's not an entitlement. I paid money out of my paycheck for decades, it was (poorly) invested by the government and now I'm getting it back. Before SS the majority of the working class ended up in the poor house when they grew too old to work. If it's insolvent it's because people in the government keep stealing the funds. Clinton "balanced" the budget by pilfering it. The fire dept's, police, a lot of the electrical grid is socialized. Any public service that is an inherent monopoly should be socialized because monopoly isn't good for a (partially) democratic republic.

    It is a class war, not a race, religion or gender one like they are trying to distract us with. The disparity is increasing to levels never seen before in history. Not at all saying marxist/communism is the solution. Mediated meritocracy capitalism is probably the best. But they make the laws (mediation) that benefit them and break them without punishment at the same time.

    King's best quote is "judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character" But the commies don't follow that at all.

    Fun fact, the Bolsheviks in Stalin's Russia, that killed 10 million Orthodox Christians, among the 50-60 million killed in Russia, were 80% Jewish. And communism is largely a Jewish creation.
     
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    The way your posts have been trending I'm expecting well poisoning, baby blood drinking, and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to make an appearance soon. Maybe some holocaust denial too?