Just went with my mom to a station across the street to stock up on some gas, only to find a huge line going back whole blocks, my heart damn near jumped into my throat

Folks we're in the cool zone

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Just give the gas out for free ffs you miserable capitalist fucks. Vaccines need to be shipped. People need food. Fuck who's going to pay for it.

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          excuse you sweaty, but it is common knowledge that the invisible hand of the free market is the only fair just and equitable way to determine the rate at which goods are transfered! if not for these poor hardworking gas company shareholders and executives, there wouldnt be any gasolines at all! and then where would we be? vevuzela thats where!!

          :vuvuzela-flag:

          ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀:maduro-coffee:

        • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          To be fair, getting ransomwared can happen to public enterprises too. I wonder how in 2021 their it dept wasn't prepared for it ...

      • spectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        They could literally also do something "reasonable" and just bill their customers based on the last three month's invoices and sort it out on the backend.

        • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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          4 years ago

          This is how utility companies do it -- in particular, that's how the natural gas price spikes were handled during the polar vortex bullshit that froze Texas. Well, outside of Texas, anyway.

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Capitalism regularly ceases to function for no other reason than that the numbers are wrong.

      Now that's an efficient system.