This meme uses a strawman picking 1982 as the “good ole days” of gas prices when it was literally the peak of a decade long run of high inflation beginning in the 1970s. After 1982, prices fell consistently, reaching $0.86/gal by 1987 ($2.40 in today’s money).
▪️In fact, gas didn’t reach 1982 levels again until 2000, when it hit $1.51/gal ($2.78 today)! The late 70s/early 80s was a time when Mideast tensions were high and surging gas prices was a major issue, no one thought it was the good ole days.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-741-august-20-2012-historical-gasoline-prices-1929-2011
▪️The good ole days of gas prices were:
🔹the late 60s/early 70s, when it was ~$0.35/gal ($2.87 today)
🔹the late 80s when it was ~$0.90/gal ($2.31)
🔹the late 90s when it was ~$1.10/gal ($2.08)
🔹2020, when it was $2-2.30/gal ($2.40-2.75)
▪️Btw, with crude now above $87/gal, expect a return to $4+/gal soon
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
