https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2026/05/05/ohio-gas-price-burden-iran-warThe weight of gas prices is getting heavier and heavier, especially in Ohio.State of play: The state ranks No. 2 in gas price burden, according to a new study from financial technology company SmartAsset.- The report considers the cost of a 15-gallon fill-up (at $4.89 per gallon on Monday) as a percentage of a state's estimated median weekly household income.By the numbers: The cost of a fill-up is 5% of Ohio's median weekly income ($1,465).- West Virginia is the only state ranked higher, at 5.23%.Between the lines: Things are even worse for Ohio minimum-wage workers. A gas fill-up is 16.7% of the weekly minimum wage pay, per the report.Zoom in: The average price of regular gas in Cleveland was $4.87 as of Tuesday, according to AAA.-That's up from $3.81 a month ago and $3.17 a year ago.The gasoline price surge is reigniting political chatter about suspending the federal tax on fuel to help consumers.- That would mean pausing the 18.3-cent-per-gallon gas tax and 24.3-cent diesel tax.Reality check: It would bring some relief to consumers, but wouldn't come close to offsetting the nearly $1.50-per-gallon jump in gas prices since the Iran War started.-Congress would have to approve a suspension of the gas tax, and it never has.
Even if they drop off the tax it will be higher than bidens prices
>>1512191This is why President Trump NEEDS a ballroom!
But I thought democrats wanted walkable cities?
>>1512199OPEN UP THE STRATEGIC BALLROOM RESERVE!!!
You know what would lower gas prices? Ending trump's war of aggression against Iran and nationalizing the US oil industry.
>>1512289When has nationalizing an industry lowered prices?
>>1512297>When has cutting out the price gougers lowered pricesYou tell me
>>1512289Would also reducing the suffering of those in India.
>>1512191>Didn't care when Biden did it.>I care nowI'm tired of this routine.>>1512289Nationalize your mom first.
>>1512313When has switching the price gougers to being in full legal control and allowing the governing class to legalizing price gouging fixed anything?
>>1512321They're bots that can't think for themselves which is why the love being told what to think.
>>1512313Expelling Jews and other middlemen has often lead to economic crisisThomas Sowell covers it in his Essay "Are Jews Generic?" where he discusses the Overseas Chinese community in South East Asia.https://www.hoover.org/research/anti-semitism-generic
>>1512332stop talking to yourself, mr projecting esl shill. it's really obvious
>>1512342>>1512324>You better not threaten the shareholder class who is price gouging everything at going to cause $8 gas>Or else it will get worse!Fuck off.
>>1512373>Better just hand it over to the people who control legalityDie please.
>>1512313NTA, I too would like an answer to that question. When has nationalizing an industry lowered prices?
>>1512469Why wouldn't it?You remove the profit motive and sharehold meddling to maximize profit. How would that NOT lower prices is the better question.
>>1512472>Why wouldn't it?... Do you have an example?
I bet there'll be an increase in sales of EVs. In my locale, I've seen every charging facility at capacity with a line of cars waiting. And I bet there'll be an increase in those investing in solar panels to not only power their homes but their cars. Sunlight won't run out, unlike oil.Jeff Bezos investing in Slate vehicles? He has chosen... wisely. Those EVs not requiring firmware updates etc? Infinitely safer too.https://i.postimg.cc/ZKpCR7PT/trump-tesla.jpgWould you buy a used car from this man?>>1512191>The weight of gas prices is getting heavier and heavier, especially in OhioIn more ways than one, expect a Democrat to win in that state: >>1512441
>>1512472What is the motivation if there's no profit and the owners can arrest you if you complain?
>>1512475>In more ways than one, expect a Democrat to win in that state:What will a Democrat do if they win?
>>1512482>>1512474So you don't have proof then.God forbid you cut the fat and remove the shareholder parasites.
>>1512484>ifWell, as Trump proves, it's now more than impossible for a Democrat to do any worse than a Republican.Just ask those who previously voted Republican in other places in recent months who have elected Democrats on the simple platform that they're not Republicans. Because they've had enough of Trump & that thing's corrupt & MAGA-infected GOP.
>>1512488Are voters idiots? The president doesn't control their local government.What platform are Democrats running on?
>>1512491>The president doesn't control their local government.Republicans literally bow down to anything Trump does including deployment of ICE thugs and openly corrupt emoluments clause violations, so in this case they kinda do. This is what happens when your political party becomes a cult of personality for one person.
Gas prices dropped 7% today
>>1512491>What platform are Democrats running on?Not being Republicans.The concept of 'Tactical Voting' elsewhere, to ensure a certain party's candidate doesn't win: it's why Trump's pal Nigey FaRAGE is faRAGING at how the Green Party prevented his (Un)Reform(ed) candidate winning in a by-election recently, screaming about 'vote rigging'. In this instance & in recent months, Vengeance Voting: because there are Republican voters who have had enough of Trump & his MAGA-infected GOP.
>>1512502>This is what happens when your political party becomes a cult of personality for one person.Case in point: >>15125030.07 cents have been deposited into your account. Trump values your hard work, shill >>1512503.
>>1512503Yeah because Trump said "we're this close to making a deal with Iran!" again. And then it'll spike right back up when it turns out he's full of shit, again.
>>1512504If you still want to vote for trump after seeing his wake of death, destruction and chaos, you're an ignorant moron.If you vote for someone else on the basis that they aren't trump, you're still an ignorant moron.That's a retarded right wing talking point. The only people voting for dems because they aren't trump are the same maga retards that voted for him on vibes because he wasn't an establishment republican (so it's literallyprojection), or because there was an r next to his name after the nomination.I mean for fuck's sake, the existence of democratic primaries, the existence of our political system as a whole, proves this wrong. If you don't know the platform of the candidate you are voting for, that is very much a problem a with you.
...and yet, there are Republican voters who have voted Democrat in recent months for three reasons:1- They've had enough of Trump & MAGA2- Because the Democrats they voted for - and won - aren't Republicans that are pro-Trump & MAGA. And that's all the platform said voters needed.3- Because they can4- ?????5- PROFIT!But not for Trump, MAGA, and that in /news/ which is so triggered because others refuse to listen to its wrong opinions. But that's okay. It can seethe, be reduced to projection, deflection etc all it wants, despite the fact - as proven by said elections - it constantly lives in a certain river in Egypt about reality. It can't accept the fact that the writing's on the wall for Trump & MAGA, and thinks that spewing its wrong opinions will somehow bend reality to its will. But that's okay.Because said voters/others in this part of 4chan doesn't care about the /news/ snowflake's feelings. And why should they, especially said voters who elected Democrats in recent months? Because - as proven since early 2025 - the orange thing they initially voted for has never cared about them.
>>1512313awesome then Trump will be able to gouge us directly from the WH instead of having to rely on speculationgood move dumbass
It's not a problem for those who previously voted for an orange thing that proved it doesn't care about those who voted for it, and have voted Democrat instead. But:>>1512509>that is very much a problem a with you.>problem a with you>aBut it is for a shill whose problem is that it isn't American, and is reduced to projection against those who are. Certainly those who will never listen to its wrong opinions.
>>1512191$4.53 is the new average today according to AAA
>>1512512It comes with the bold assumption that trump and the conservatives no longer in power.BTW, they're already using the current system to price gouge you already.https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-hassett-credit-card-spending/If anything this is a smoking gun that unfettered capitalism is a failure.
>>1512511No politician cares about their constituency. We just wanted someone to deport the browns and nobody else has offered, simple as. If you want to put forward another cantidate that will risk torpedoing the global grift to deport them, let us know and we'll consider him. Just fuck right off if they're brown or a woman, because we're not going down that road.
>>1512572you will never be an honorary white
>>1512571Do you know where I can find unfettered capitalism?The credit card industry, healthcare, and housing aren't unfettered capitalism, they are heavily regulated industries
>>1512587do you really get paid pennies to get bukkaked by billionaires 24/7?
>>1512571>If anything this is a smoking gun that unfettered capitalism is a failure.lol, look at this DUMB FUCKER.He thinks this is capitalism. Not only capitalism, but "UNFETTERED capitalism"What a stupid bitch. Whatever solution this dumb fucker has is probably equally retarded as his statement.
>>1512321>Didn't care when Biden did it.>biden still living rent free in retards headsStill cheaper than Trump's america
Friendly reminder that gas was more expensive in 1973-74 than it is now, and that was a big part of the Nixon-Ford-Carter recession.Median household income:1973 - $11,000/yr2025 - $84,000/yr.In late 1973 the price of gas jumped to over a dollar a gallon, thanks to Nixon's shady deal with the Saudis right before OPEC boycotted the West. That is equivalent to $7.50/gallon today.
>>1512587>>1512595>My true form of capitalism has not been tried.This is why you're no better than the commies.
>>1512602Oh man, that popular president, Nixon.At least Trump hasn't gotten us stranded in a forever war as well-ohhhhhhhhhhhh.
>>1512604It has been tried. It worked until about 1935.
