The amount supplied by Russia is equal to America’s consumption over 14 hours. So it’ll be way less than a cent difference. A non-sociopath would never push that button, so we have a sociopath in the oval office to push it for us.
Fuel has very inelastic demand, and thus relatively small changes in supply can create big changes in price. The reason this won’t do shit is actually because it’s not changing the total global supply. And we aren’t getting a special price anyway as far as I know.
How many dollars will this deal give Putin?
America:
And the thing is the majority of the people here who have diesels (pickup trucks) would press that button anyway.
The first press saves 5cents. No savings for additional presses, but it does continue to launch missiles.
this would be offered by the dipshit admin, it won’t be a ‘discount’, it’ll be a surcharge that goes right into the diaper.
Donald Trump is a Russian traitor.
“If you press it more than 129 times, does it turn into a money printing machine?” — sociopaths, probably
I’m glad we tore up that Iran nuclear deal…
I’m glad its coming back to bite truck drivers and trucking companies.
Where was this cartoon when it was an Iranian family or Palestinian family or Iraqi family or etc.? American foreign policy has basically been just to keep hammering away at this button for a couple of generations now.
You must be joking. “US invading any country that has oil” has been used in cartoons and memes since forever. The US has been criticised internationally for wars and support of dictatorships for decades. There is an endless supply of cartoons for just about any war the US took part in - a lot of them are about oil.
Too brown and too Muslim would be the cynical answer.
There is no doubt the US likes to control resources, especially oil, in other countries. It is not because they need them, it because it is profitable. The button is pressed by the MIC as a matter of
national securityobsecene profits.Things don’t change until they do. Ideas aren’t written until they are.
