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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: New York City's Decline
Date: 10/24/23 9:03 PM
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(Gets out fisking knife for inbound stream of BS)

Right. And to get those things we only had to have a couple thousand Americans die every day.
Thanks to Open Borders Joe, we've got fentanyl in pizza parlors in New York.

Sure you want to play this game?

Funny, isn't it, that gasoline prices declined when 20 million American

Oh, you mean when dullard blue states shut down their economies? Actually, I wasn't thinking about that. I was thinking pre-COVID:

eia.gov: U.S. average retail gasoline prices in 2019 were slightly lower than in 2018.

U.S. regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.60 per gallon (gal) in 2019, 11 cents/gal (4%) lower than in 2018.

Ooops. Change your name to pinataone. It's kinda necessary if you're going to hang these silly, mendaciously dishonest posts up there for anyone to come along and bash. Problem is that's not candy that spills out.

What, pray tell, is gas right now? $3.57 a gallon.

Sure you want to play this game?

And let's do inflation:
bls.gov - Consumer price in review
From 2018 to 2019, consumer prices for all items rose 2.3 percent. Over that period, food prices increased 1.8 percent, a slightly larger percentage increase than the 12-month increase of 1.6 percent in 2018. Food at home prices increased 0.7 percent in 2019, continuing a trend of modest increases, as prices rose 0.6 percent in 2018 and 0.9 percent in 2017.

The horror! Food up 1.8%!!!! Now let's do Biden.
bls.gov - Consumer price in review
Consumer prices for all items rose 6.5 percent from December 2021 to December 2022. Food prices increased 10.4 percent, reflecting an 11.8-percent increase in prices for food at home and an 8.3-percent increase in prices for food away from home.

Womp womp womp womp....wommmmmmmmp.

Run along, now. You're really bad at playing this game.

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