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[–] Brunbrun6766 19 points 8 months ago

Gasoline Sommelier; Charles Kirk

[–] Twentytwodividedby7 13 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I just paid $2.89 for gas...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Usd for a gallon right? Blows my mind how cheap your fuel is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's literally a dollar cheaper at my Costco compared to the typical gas chains.

Seems a little...

Suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be clear, even a dollar more is still comparatively cheap. I'm Australian and we're about $2 AUD / L, which is roughly USD$5/gal, and I know Europe and New Zealand are more expensive than us.

[–] kingaloo 1 points 8 months ago

It's about $4.3/gal for petrol in Punjab, India

[–] superduperenigma 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is an edited tweet, but the timestamp is from March 2022, which was shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. I think gas prices did go up at that point, but it was still idiotic for conservatives to blame Democrats in the United States for the economic fallout of a war in another continent.

[–] Daft_ish 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Its the fucking news media. Anything from gas to Dijon mustard is the fucking GOPs complaint and they blast that shit straight into your eye globes non stop. It's like fox sits by the grocery store check out lane and waits for the the first woman with a stack of 200+ coupons to come by to ask what their programming should be.

[–] Trollception 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] deleteme 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Subsidized by your government

[–] CleoTheWizard 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lots of things are subsidized by the government. Almost every basic need of a society is subsidized in the US.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 8 months ago

Not once Trump's in charge, I'm guessing.

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence 3 points 8 months ago

It's still 5.19 around Seattle

[–] shalafi 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same. Prices are down or steady. This guy is making an issue where there isn't one for political points. And people will believe it!

[–] superduperenigma 2 points 8 months ago

And people will believe it!

This is a fake tweet by the way.

[–] einlander 6 points 8 months ago

He should try the spicy gasoline. Got to try it real hot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Imagine a new kind of shrinkflation where instead of the portion reducing, it's the taste of the food that becomes weaker.

[–] Dicska 4 points 8 months ago

There is a surprising amount of products where both has been happening - some of them also getting more expensive.

[–] wieson 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's what's happening with bell peppers and giant strawberries, isn't it?

Or tomatoes. They don't deliberately grow them bigger and more watery, but they did breed them for transport and automated harvest for decades. So now we have wooden, watery tomatoes that taste of nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Also for appearance, they look perfectly round and red so people buy them, instead of the retarded looking half green tomatoes from the farmers market that taste amazing.

[–] Nightwind 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jokes aside this is a real instinct of great chefs - taste everything. I remember seeing a documentary with Gordon Ramsay in which he visited Middle America and investigated the drug trade. In a scene some drug cook mixed diesel fuel with raw cocaine and Ramsay - clearly without thinking- dipped his finger in and tasted it. Instant regret, but he really couldn't help himself :)

[–] qarbone 2 points 8 months ago

what

gordon ramsay tasted coke on cam?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could we make a real thing please? Charlie really needs to know how gas tastes.

[–] Brunbrun6766 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] superduperenigma 6 points 8 months ago

Reminder, Sean Hannity still hasn't made good on his promise to be waterboarded on live tv to prove it isn't torture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well… I’d volunteer to force-feed him the gasoline if that’s what you mean.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Getting uncomfortable Three Kings vibes here. I mean fuck Charlie Kirk but ick...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh it’s just internet hyperbole. I’m not a violent person no matter how much I detest people like him.