Diesel prices hit all-time highs two months before midterms

/pol/ · 423 mentions · novelty developing · first seen 2026-09-02 00:50

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Contrasts record US diesel prices ($6.276/gal) with Iran's $0.023/gal.
Post alleges a Venezuelan billionaire bribed Trump $50 million to receive a full presidential pardon.
Americans are suffering under $5 gas and reduced living standards.
Nebraska has run out of diesel, per a linked X post.
Anon asks others to report local gasoline prices.
Asks why Americans accept high violent crime rates versus other developed nations.

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/pol/544765068 ↗ live · archive puzzled evergreen 6 replies Asks why Americans accept high violent crime rates versus other developed nations.
/pol/544750837 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 89 replies Nebraska has run out of diesel, per a linked X post.
/pol/544752619 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 2 replies Anon asks others to report local gasoline prices.
/pol/544745416 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 5 replies Americans are suffering under $5 gas and reduced living standards.
/pol/544724193 ↗ live · archive hostile developing 14 replies Post alleges a Venezuelan billionaire bribed Trump $50 million to receive a full presidential pardon.
/pol/544723222 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 1 replies Contrasts record US diesel prices ($6.276/gal) with Iran's $0.023/gal.
/pol/544637572 ↗ live · archive ambivalent developing 1 replies OP reluctantly considers voting for a 'brown communist' candidate despite disagreeing, solely because of diesel prices.
/pol/544623505 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 4 replies A triple energy shock driven by the Iran conflict has tripled diesel prices and inflated food and flight costs.
/pol/544609499 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 26 replies Taunts American /pol/ users about rising fuel prices.
/biz/62782314 ↗ live · archive mocking developing 36 replies Poster sarcastically notes that gasoline days above $4 have surpassed Biden-era counts and diesel prices exceeded 2022 levels all year.
/pol/544571014 ↗ live · archive angry evergreen 26 replies Blames Trump for rising fuel prices ahead of an imminent price increase.
/pol/544553449 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 21 replies Poster asks when gas prices will return to previous levels.
/pol/544436270 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 39 replies Mocking diesel price pain by sarcastically urging votes for welfare spending for Somali immigrants.
/pol/544432675 ↗ live · archive cynical evergreen 4 replies OP claims diesel prices make voting too costly and alleges Democratic fraud anyway.
/pol/544376662 ↗ live · archive angry evergreen 3 replies Claims gas has stayed above $4 for 165 days under Trump, betraying voters who chose him for affordability.
/pol/544376518 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 5 replies Asking when gas prices will fall amid sustained high fuel prices.
/pol/544372854 ↗ live · archive critical developing 10 replies Trump wrongly blames Zelensky for diesel prices that actually rose because he attacked Iran.
/pol/544368134 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 6 replies Poster asks whether /pol/ users miss Joe Biden.
/pol/544361410 ↗ live · archive critical evergreen The far right manufactures outrage by pivoting attacks onto Canada, revealing a pattern of lying and exaggeration.
/pol/544348821 ↗ live · archive hateful evergreen 67 replies OP urges buying an unnamed print book, claiming Jews will ban it after the next presidential election.
/pol/544358043 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen Poster jokes/asks whether Trump is responsible for Russian diesel in his pickup, alluding to fuel price politics.
/pol/544345958 ↗ live · archive critical breaking 27 replies Under Trump in 2026, days with over $4 gasoline have exceeded Biden's count and diesel prices have surpassed 2022's record average.
/pol/544339978 ↗ live · archive angry breaking 11 replies Democrats' regulatory and climate policies, not Republicans, are responsible for rising diesel prices.
/pol/544335007 ↗ live · archive critical breaking 26 replies 2026 year-to-date US diesel prices now exceed 2022's record average, making it the most expensive diesel year ever.
/pol/544298873 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 10 replies Asks what could be done to make beef more affordable in the US and elsewhere.
/pol/544293508 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 1 replies Diesel and heating oil are heading back to all-time highs and farmers are hoarding fuel fearing winter shortages.
/pol/544276595 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 40 replies Diesel prices rose 5% as markets doubt Trump's ceasefire claims and a Russia diesel supply issue.
/pol/544283600 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 3 replies Reports US diesel futures spiking to new highs with the retail record of $6.53/gal possibly topped by the midterms despite Trump administration efforts.
/pol/544261370 ↗ live · archive manipulative evergreen 22 replies A supposed insider claims a planned geopolitical destabilization will spike oil prices to enable martial law before the midterms, advising stockpiling diesel.
/pol/544181033 ↗ live · archive resentful evergreen 14 replies Claims media hypocrisy in ignoring US uranium purchases from Russia under Biden while attacking Trump for buying Russian diesel.
/pol/544164687 ↗ live · archive gleeful breaking 343 replies Celebrates the destruction of large Russian bot farms weeks before US elections.
/pol/544157639 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 8 replies Thread references diesel fuel prices, likely alluding to price highs ahead of midterms.
/pol/544150776 ↗ live · archive mocking developing 30 replies The OP mocks voters 'who fell for it again' now paying $5 per gallon for gas.
/pol/544148483 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 20 replies Blames Ukraine and uses an ethnic slur for high diesel prices.
/pol/544093933 ↗ live · archive mocking developing 93 replies America is now dependent on Russia for diesel imports, which the poster mocks as a Trump deal failure.
/pol/544099317 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 2 replies The post reports national gas prices remain at record highs above $4/gallon for a third straight month heading into the midterms.
/pol/544063625 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 18 replies One-liner asserting the poster never bought diesel from Russia.
/pol/544055597 ↗ live · archive sarcastic breaking 21 replies Poster sarcastically credits Russia for Trump's upcoming diesel announcement amid record diesel prices.
/pol/544052728 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 17 replies Russia supplying the US with increasing diesel volumes, linked to the Iran war and a Venezuelan refinery outage, is claimed to signal an incoming supply shock.
/pol/544042299 ↗ live · archive regretful evergreen 8 replies Poster says they were better off economically under Biden despite not voting for him.
/pol/544028285 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 9 replies OP asks whether $10 diesel is coming, linking a CNN article on Gulf Coast hurricane damage to oil refineries.
/pol/544023409 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 24 replies OP mocks the 'vote for the lesser of two evils' argument pressed on Democratic voters.
/pol/544006486 ↗ live · archive alarmed evergreen 84 replies OP warns that a Democratic win means repression targeting anons like them.
/pol/543994058 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking The poster reports the national average gasoline price hit $4.36, the first October above $4/gallon, following record August and September highs.
/pol/543991353 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen The poster mocks Democrats as drug addicts whose 'legalize all drugs' stance amounts to 'vote blue, trust me, I'm a drug addict.'
/pol/543970752 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 21 replies Diesel and oil prices jumped 5% overnight despite expectations of supply recovery.
/pol/543975521 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 96 replies A generic partisan meme thread asserting an undesirable future under Democrats.
/pol/543921907 ↗ live · archive alleging breaking 59 replies Reports Burgum blaming Ukraine for removing ~2 million barrels/day of diesel production and pressuring fuel prices.
/pol/543897762 ↗ live · archive dismissive evergreen 12 replies The US national debt will reach $100 trillion and money is meaningless.
/pol/543886767 ↗ live · archive critical evergreen OP asks why the US failed in its Middle East military interventions, framing them as wars of aggression.

Diesel prices hit all-time highs two months before midterms

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