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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" 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: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: Hey Dope!
Date: 05/01/26 8:02 AM
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PS. You people whining about $4 a gallon are losers. Live in WA state. We’ve been paying that in Seattle for years thanks to the democrats in Olympia.

And now you're paying $5.72 per gallon, thanks to the spike in prices caused by war in Iran. Which appears to be an all-time record, slightly exceeding even the very highest peak during the Biden years:

Gas prices have hit a record high in the Seattle area, as prices at the pump nationwide reach the highest they’ve been since the beginning of the war in Iran.

The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett area on Tuesday was $5.724, according to AAA, the highest they’ve ever been on average. The price jumped about 11 cents in a week and 19 cents in a month.

Before the war in Iran, the highest price ever recorded in the Seattle area was $5.693, in June 2022.


chronline.com - Western washington average gas price hits record high state passes

The Republican Party certainly doesn't want to see those kinds of gas prices lasting through Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, which a months-long blockade would certainly entail. Perhaps Trump, who never has to run for re-election again, might not care.
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