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America’s long-haul truckers were already struggling. Then came $5 diesel

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Carrie518@reddit

$6.19 northern NY
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_daddyl0nglegs_@reddit

Where was everyone's tears a few years ago with the last administration? You know, when the prices of absolutely everything skyrocketed seemingly overnight. Everyone is acting like this is some new, crazy shit. We literally all just went through this. Yeah it sucks massive ass. I don't want my tax dollars going towards endless war, especially funding the wars of other countries. But here we are...again. Prices will drop someday, then they'll go back up. I'm 32 and have seen this cycle a good handful of times in my life.
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Jackso08@reddit

Right. We’ve all been through this cycle over and over. Red or blue, democrat or republican it’s the same as always…. If you’re rich you’re favored, if you’re poor you’re fucked.
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Deadbeatdone@reddit

This both sides shit is what got us in to this mess. Al Franken grabs a breast as a joke or bill Clinton fucks his secretary and they cancel them and they step down but trump fucks and pays off a porn star while his wife us at home with their newborn or actually rapes and is convicted of rape or fucks children on his best buddy epsteins island and still gets elected for a second term. To be so fucking delusional to think that both sides are the same must be a wonderful cope to have.
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Jackso08@reddit

When did bill Clinton step down?
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daemonescanem@reddit

Nah brah you voted for your tax dollars to go right into the the wealthy pockets. You voted fpea criminal who stole top secret documents to further his business interests. You voted for a pedophile who fucked kids. What was the economy like last two years of Biden? Way better then how InsurrectionistTrump left it. Where is your rage at how Trump's PPP program cost us 888 billion? You can actually see who got PPP money and it got wrote off. Where is your rage at Republicans who got secret briefings before Covid who then used that information to play the stock market? No we weren't just going thru this. Like you said your 32 none of this is normal. Do you reality that with Trump using an EO to fund TSA that he just took control of the purse of the nation? Its a Constitutional crisis. And with Trump wanting control of elections we are at the precipice of a dictatorship.
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_daddyl0nglegs_@reddit

Who said I voted for Trump? Where was your anger with Biden? You know, the pathological liar who couldn't run a country to save his own ass. Literally. The one who stood idle while the prices of groceries literally doubled for absolutely no fucking reason. The kind of shit that truly fucks the lower and middle classes over. I'm a libertarian. I don't vote red *or* blue, but here you are making assumptions. Voting for Trump is just as ignorant as voting for Harris. They're all in one big club, and we aren't in it. Yes, we literally just went through massive fuel spikes a few years ago. You probably just got your CDL and weren't driving then so you don't remember. Without ChatGPT doing the work for you, can you state where in the constitution we are having a crisis? Like, seriously, tell me which law is being violated that is explicitly in the constitution and how? *"Oh no, our democracy! Oh, it's unconstitutional"* is what everyone is saying because they hear it on MSNBC but have literally no fucking idea what they're talking about.
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biograf_@reddit (OP)

The president said prices down on Day One. Don't recall him saying anything about cyclical price trends making things go back up.
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TrulyTae@reddit

There was global pandemic that effect everyone… globally…
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Nebraska716@reddit

The pandemic caused fuel prices to drop like a rock. This was coming out of the pandemic and the Ukraine war.
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Deadbeatdone@reddit

Nobody was driving. Demand crashed so price of fuel crashed.
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Nebraska716@reddit

Diesel is higher now than ever and it went up much faster than in 2022. Biden didn’t cause the spike then. This was done for no reasonable reason
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HighwayStar71@reddit

Are companies going to start harassing their drivers to reduce their idling during the coming summer months because of the higher fuel prices?
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Wazzymustard@reddit

My truck shuts itself off after 3 minutes unless you tap the brakes
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unloader86@reddit

Yup!
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PrivatePilot9@reddit

Already happening. And it’s not even summer yet.
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amazingmaple@reddit

Still not as high as in 2008
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Key-Negotiation-2316@reddit

Who caused the 2008 crisis?… another brainless republican. All they do is start BS wars and funnel our money to their wealthy friends and y’all are too dumb to see that!!!
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amazingmaple@reddit

Umm it was Obama
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STUNT_GRANNY@reddit

Obama wasn't inaugurated until 2009
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Imaginativested@reddit

Where do you live because it's higher where I am.
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amazingmaple@reddit

Northern New England. We're still under six dollars. 2008 we were just over 8 bucks.
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groovyinutah@reddit

Not yet...
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Nebraska716@reddit

The high a week ago in wholesale diesel was 80 cents higher than in 2008. It’s never been higher than now.
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tvieno@reddit

Where is it $5?! I paid $6 today.
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5tudent_Loans@reddit

Parts of texas just reached $5
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Fluxus4@reddit

Georgia
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ios_static@reddit

In my area there’s a bp gas station with $4.49 disel South Florida
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homucifer666@reddit

If only we had left international trade relations as they were, but *someone* wanted to be in a history book.
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VGPreach@reddit

Bro is gonna be up there with Johnson and Reagan, America became permanently worse after all 3
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Freightshaker000@reddit

He's making Buchanan look good.
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driver004@reddit

God damn am I glad I don’t have kids or anything back home right now, so long as the economy doesn’t fucking explode or anything crazy like that I can weather pretty much any storm then ride the rebound wave after but doing that with people back home? Damn those guys are hurting
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dank_memes_911@reddit

Just got a fuel surcharge of $2400 for a 600 mile run, the higher fuel prices are great.
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DaRealMexicanTrucker@reddit

This article is 12hrs late. Its $7.19/gal in CA
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geneticdeadender@reddit

5$ diesel.... so far.
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West_Masterpiece9423@reddit

$5? I’ve seen it $6.50 in the PNW.
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Romeo_horse_cock@reddit

In Arkansas it's anywhere from 4.60 to 5.20 or so rn.
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mungfish227@reddit

It's over $7.00 in California
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Fishdude909@reddit

7.10-7.20 lol
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Fli_fo@reddit

Come on people don't you want to take a hit when your commander demands it
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sam367537@reddit

Middle east countries are fighting each other like rogue dogs but some great country wants to step in and stop the war . Getting involved in this war was the biggest mistake even when no other country wants no part in this shit
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Glorious_Dingleberry@reddit

I live In the USA we stopped being a “great country” when we elected a known pathological liar, felon, rapist and pedophile as our leader.
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sam367537@reddit

Blame those peaceful muslims group for rise in gas and diesel prices , donald trump got nothing to do with this shit
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ForeverWide8243@reddit

Orange turd in the white house
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Immediate-Fly-7876@reddit

🍑🍑🍑🤡🤡🤡 did that!
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Ex-PFC_WintergreenV4@reddit

Just think of all the terrible things that will be written about him right after his signature on new currency. DONALD J TRUMP… …. Was a ped0 …. Ruined America …. Lowered the value of this money … Was missed by no one …. Sucked at golf Etc
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Usual_Safety@reddit

Trump literally dodged bullets
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OsBaculum@reddit

And now we have one less firefighter in the world. Y'know, someone who's *actually useful*
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LemonFlavouredThings@reddit

Dude couldn’t dodge a plane on a clear afternoon
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Zodi88@reddit

And the draft
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IAMATruckerAMA@reddit

But they told you to mad at "people who wear flip flops" instead You'll keep doing that while they pick your pockets and you'll thank them for it
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ComprehendReading@reddit

The drivers who cannot understand English and use their phone to call their broker at the scale window, who barely speaks English, will be really upset when... Oh wait, I forgot, it's deliberate infiltration. If they insist on weird forms of contactless payment for scales like PayUS (had a driver try to pay with a fake card), or fake Apple Pay accounts (the most counterfeited payment system) it will make it so much easier to identify compromised workers, and their scumbag employers.
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Guzzi88Moto@reddit

Boo hoo
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Beneficialsensai@reddit

Wow?really?
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