Y’all saw this coming months ago. The Biden administration is now considering sending taxpayer funded “gas cards” to taxpayers who cannot afford the gasoline prices created by the Biden administration energy policy. Yes, murica’ it’s a circle of stupid.
WASHINGTON – […] Biden officials are taking a second look at whether the federal government could send rebate cards out to millions of American drivers to help them pay at gas stations — an idea they examined months ago before ruling it out. Aides had found that shortages in the U.S. chip industry would make it hard to produce enough rebate cards, two people familiar with the matter said. White House officials also fear there would be no way to prevent consumers from using them for purchases other than gasoline, according to another person familiar with the discussions.
[…] Biden aides have also looked in recent days at invoking the Defense Production Act to move diesel and other refined products should localized shortages materialize, two people familiar with the matter said.
[…] The revived brainstorming reflects how higher fuel costs have emerged as one of the Biden administration’s chief political threats and a serious hurdle for the economy overall. (read more)
It’s a cult of western “leaders”
Here in British Columbia we have a similar racket going.
Our Provincial Car Insurance Corporation has issued us a “rebate” of $100.00 per insured vehicle.
What a joke..when our communist thug Premier was asked why not simply reduce the gas tax..crickets.
No wonder all the G7 wanted rid of President Trump so badly.
Cheers!
Every day it’s A new absurdity…’Know what I want for Father’s Day? A reprieve from massive stupidity. A one day reprieve….
This is the blind leading the stupid.
Why not just send them new sneakers so they can walk? Or maybe cheap, Chinese made bicycles.
The end game is they want us all to use public transportation. But what about those of us who live in rural areas? I guess we’re just stuck in our homes unless we’re Amish!
Biden Adm has one bad idea after another.
for the sane yes. it’s their plan and it is moving along smoothly.
Probably brought to us by the same folks that gave us “Cash for Clunkers.” Idiots!
That was one of the first test programs. It was a real doozy.
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Great! Now BLM and ANTIFA can be transported to the next riot courtesy of American taxpayers! FJB!
Just one more piece of evidence that Biden is reacting to events enacted in his name instead of causing them, and every Democrat being sacrificed for this once in a nation’s lifetime transformation.
I disagree, he is directly causing the gas prices and the inflation. That is his and the democrats plan.
Sounds exactly like something Susan Rice would be putting together.
FBO FJB F UNIPARTY
Why not a new Tesla?
Good grief, don’t give them any ideas!
The deep state’s days are numbered.
I hold the same opinion.
Desperation is leading to acceleration of their plan.
we can only hope
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Many people do not realize that ‘once’ they accept a grift from the ‘federal govt’ associated with providing much of their personal information that they ‘immediately fall’ under the jurisdiction of this entity, and the same goes for every time you lay your signature upon any dotted line…
It is a trap and once you partake in this trap it takes alot of maneuvering to escape this trap, if you can.
Bottom line is these actors are all about obtaining as much jurisdiction from each and every individual by whatever means necessary.
What the Government giveth the Government will control.
And the corollary, to whom the government giveth, the government will control.
Because when you take Caesar’s coin, you belong to Caesar. T’was ever thus.
NM’s governor did just this…..it’s an election year, don’t ya know?
They can just print more money to pay for these gas cards causing even higher inflation. And what effects will this “free gas” have on gasoline prices? How stupid can they be?
They know this will cause gas prices to truly shoot the moon.
More planned pain.
good thing you got that electric car in Columbus.
Ohio electric company rep explains widespread power outages (nbc4i.com)
I’m still laughing that transportation secretary Pete bragged so much about his new electric Mustang! Ford just did a major recall of this model, for safety reasons. Could have told him that, might have saved some embarrassment, then again, it makes for a lot of laughs!
Have to say I don’t have a lot of pity for Flava-Town.
Clearly current spending levels weren’t enough.
Got to fire up those printing presses some more to further inflate the currency.
To infinity and beyond!
Buy your vote with your own money.
I have a better solution….get rid of this unelected clown and the rest of the circus that he brought with him.
Free phones, free food and now free gas if you are poor enough. And the middle class pays. And that is fine with the communists
Don’t forget free housing, transportation, healthcare and education for illegal aliens.
Beyond infuriating!
What damn good is free gas w/o a gas engine to burn it? Did anyone think of that? So, with the free gas, comes a free automobile, but offer us red necks a free pickem up. And make mine White to match my white systemic racism.
Freebies ! I’m staying on the plantation.
why don’t they just furnish me with a list of wealthier citizens than me who live nearby from all the info they have in government files. Then I can go get some money for gas from them by begging, negotiating or threatening them, eh? Time to fight inflation by cutting out the middleman (government).
Does this sound any more stupid that the Biden administration proposal? Surely somebody in Washington is smart enough to point out the sheer insanity of this.
Try the House member with an economics degree that thinks printing more play money is the answer!
It sure looks like they are debasing the currency as fast as possible. This is also tied to their demonic attempt to get rid of cash so we will be locked into an entirely digital system.
Emphasis on locked in.
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So let’s make inflation worse…let’s make people MORE dependent on government- thus giving THEM more power, even though they have no real solutuions…these politicians must be stopped. If they can explain to me why begging for oil from Saudi Arabia or Venezuela (countries that hate us, by the way) will make the enviornment better (doesn’t all gas that gets used emit the same toxins?) I might listen, but they don’t even TRY to make sense of their harebrain schemes. We’ve endured 18 months of this madness and have seen the economy tank, crime rise, and the population feel hopeless- These entitled, spoiled politicians, who moved freely while we were locked down, who fly private, who get to keep their husband’s mugshots from being released, who get to keep their son’s crimes (though we’ve all seen the laptop) from being prosecuted, need to go. Trump’s mean tweets don’t look so bad in retrospect.
Wish I could see it as you do. But all of it, I mean all of it is intentional. You can’t make sense of it until you realize that.
These people are vicious and cruel. What comes across as stupidity is just an extremity of their avarice.
No, they are BOTH Stupid, AND full of Avarice, nothing says the two are synonymous or mutually exclusive.
BINGO.
And your local gov’t employees who never missed a paycheck, although they didn’t go to work, and think that they were entitled to that.
After they “realize this is a bad idea due to feasibility” there will be another round of means tested Stimulus Checks and folks on some sort of public assistance covered by payments via re-loadable US Government Credit Cards will get a “fuel top-off”.
illegal immigrants advance to the front of the line.
…..or he could just return to Trump’s energy policy.
I am guessing first to receive them will be the welfare kings and queens who live in inner cities and use public transportation.🙄
You beat me to it. It’s “interesting” to observe the actions of a regime that actually intends what most would think are unintended consequences. It’s a pathetically transparent shell game, engineered by ideologues of sub-average intellect.
They will sell ’em. 50 cents on the dollar.
It is common for me now to be in grocery store behind a guy paying with 2, 3, or maybe more SNAP cards
I was discussing with my teenage daughter Sundance’s article on the fall in demand for durable goods due to consumers’ income being eaten up by the soaring costs of the necessities of life.
She was miffed about the extreme decrease in her supposedly conservatively managed mutual fund.
I encouraged her not to sell so low as he is so young but I had to admit that I can no longer predict when or if a recovery will occur as the system is no longer rational, just corrupt.
We discussed whether those in power would be so historically stupid as to resume printing cash in the face of 17% inflation, rising interests rates and plummeting demand.
And, wouldn’t ya know it, less than a day later the regime may be set to resume ‘printing’ cash in the form of free gas cards.
Not a surprise. The illegitimate JoBama regime is trying to ruin the country as fast as they can.
Does those also pay for the increased prices of food and goods because of high gas prices? And what will it really buy seeing the government will have to print more money to fund the gas cards, fueling inflation faster?
The blind leading the blind! What we really need is a change in the “leadership” before anything that would help us could ever happen!
You don’t just aim for the top, the “leadership”; we DID that, with the Tea Party (primary LEADERSHIP) and with PDJT’s first term, and it only makes temporary changes, easily reversed as we have seen.
In order to create real change, we need to work at LEAST as hard, at State, County and municipal govt. elected positions,…
And at Republican party positions, also at State, county, district and precinct levels.
For one thing, its where Major leaguers get their start, for another recent events have made it apperent ($0r0$ prosecutors, Portland city councils, School boards everywhere) there is a LOT of Governing, going on at these levels.
MUST push MAGA at these levels.
And GIVE, AND FUNDRAISE FOR THEM. I mean vaca money, college money, Christmas money. MONEY.
Dutch, what we really need to do is to put SHAME back into our degenerate culture. We are no longer ashamed of anything. Shame went out the door with MORALITY and INTEGRITY.
So PedoJoe46 is going to send you a “gas card”……for say $50…..
What about the other $4,500 that Bidenflation is going to cost you this year….???
Thank a demOCrat…..and the 81 million votes……Oh……almost forgot…..FJB…..!!!
So,
if
upon receipt of said gas card,
and it is cut / thrown away….
…does that save the spending of taxpayer fund$?
[ except for the untold costs of the govm’t to produce and send the gas cards
( guess how much $ ____ that would be? )]
$50? That won’t fill up my push lawnmower gas tank!
Your gas tank is greater than nine gallons. Just Asking
Keep the gas cards.
Send us US weapons.
Leave the gun
Take the cannoli
Great way to bring on more inflation in gas prices for the rest of us.
Well done, Democrats.
Why consider a card with a chip? Just send a paper check or direct deposit, please.
Let us peons decide if we want to buy food, gas, or cat food.
It’s our tax money you’ve forced us to hand over so ya’ll can pretend to be working hard coming up with new ways to piss our tax dollars away.
I’ve already read that the plan isn’t feasible because of the chip. Chip shortages mean they can’t just make a bunch of debit cards
Oh so it’s not for everyone? Just rewarding the lazy slaves of the state again?
This is a classic case of the man keepin a brutha down, but most being kept down don’t even know it’s being done. One thing that will certainly never result from this type of benefit program – Self Reliance. I hate that we’re paying for it, but I’d rather be on this side of that equation any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I disagree, this is not “stupid” if your goal is to get rid of all energy exploration and force the impoverishment of our country and the world by shoving the new green deal down our throat. They know exactly what they are doing.
Forget that. How about a “Cash for Drunkards” program!
Why it’s the buy the votes, add to inflation, and further crash the economy, all rolled into one stimulus bill! Neato!
The terrifying part is how is it possible that there are THIS MANY truly stupid and easily manipulated people? Did they doctor the water? Lord have mercy.
Is this also why gas pumps at multiple stations in Central Indiana have been found inoperable due to “supply shortage” or possibly retooling?
Except they have a little problem with the “chips” in these cards….
BTW – those “chips” ar manufactured in guess where?
Ukraine…hummmmmm
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/06/17/biden-admins-plan-to-try-to-solve-high-gas-prices-ran-into-another-problem-of-their-making-n2608916
Yes, friends, January 6th SHOULD be remembered; as the day when the national average price for a gallon of gas was 2.25!!
More confiscation of my money to spread around in the name of forced charity. FJB
So rather than allow private enterprise to discover, produce, refine and distribute the gasoline essential to our nation’s economic well-being for $2.50/gal, those in charge of our Govt now plan to subsidize our purchase of this product for twice that amount..?
This inescapably leads me to conclude that regardless of whatever misdeeds may rightly be ascribed to them, these are also some of the biggest dummies to ever come down the pike!
Effhead Ideologues, trying to fix stupid with more stupid,communism 101.
At this point its just a question whose creditcard you are using at the pump.
Your own or the governments..
Only the governments creditcard is actually paid by taxes or printing money.
The latter case helping to lift inflation higher.
Nice.
In the end its just a not-so-well-thought-out scheme to buy votes.
When will people wake up that its the US Government policies that cause inflation, and not Putin.
I’ve got an idea! How about we open up the pipelines and renew the drilling leases?
Nah! Then the sheep won’t be dependent on the government and worhsip us as their provider and protector!
This is one step away from rationing
Why is it that every time I hear a capital one commercial ask it’s slogan question “what’s in your wallet?”
I find myself answering out loud, “The government’s fist… and that ain’t my wallet”.
Yeah…of course!
The White House can’t be having these needy EBT card users having to walk to go get their free groceries, can we????
Everyone just needs to start their own business or not for profit and deduct everything. This fed gets no funds from me. The contract is broken.
Nonprofit organizations, which are not actually nonprofit but that’s a whole nother conversation, really really have to toe the party line. When you sign up to be one, the paperwork is endless, and you are constantly having to prove that you are a good Leftist in order to stay eligible. You also have to give up your freedom of speech because there are so many restrictions on what these organizations are allowed to do, unless of course they are left-wing explicitly in which case they can do whatever the hell they want.
Yep, they just gonna toss more gasoline (pun intended) on the inflation fire. This regime is stupid and desperate. They will not be able to buy their way out of this.
Why can’t you all stop bitchin about gas prices. All anyone has to do is buy an electric car and plug it into the wall-problem solved. Duh!
Right until you drive to an area that has a limited power grid.
Really hope that the plug into the wall comment is sarcasm.
“We’re changing people’s lives.”
This graph is perfect.
We are way past incompetent, corrupt and compromised! I’m preparing for Martial Law from these lunatics! It would fit their “agenda”!