Tariffs

[OlDawg]

22 minutes ago, DCT said:

That could be a possibility.  To those who how to play the stock great.  However, those who are living pay to pay check are struggling.  People are saying the con baby is keeping his promise but the economy has fallen on deaf ears.  
I not trying to compare years and or but but Biden.  What say ye?

Not sure what you’re asking me. Inflation went from 2.3% to 2.4% from April 2024-May 2025. Basically, non-existent.

[Separation Scientist]

Oil has gone from $75 to $64 in the past two days. Gas prices will fall. We won't see Bidens $5/gal prices ever during Trumps presidency. Nor Bidens 9% inflation. Trump has it back near 2%!    

[DCT]

10 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said:

Oil has gone from $75 to $64 in the past two days. Gas prices will fall. We won't see Bidens $5/gal prices ever during Trumps presidency. Nor Bidens 9% inflation. Trump has it back near 2%!    

Maybe folks here on the east coast are price gouging. 🤷 

[OlDawg]

7 minutes ago, DCT said:

Maybe folks here on the east coast are price gouging. 🤷 

Your state tax on fuel is a lot higher and is hidden in the cost. What’s your local tax rate? Ours (Texas) is right at 8.2%.

[Separation Scientist]

3 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

Your state tax on fuel is a lot higher.

18 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said:

 

East coast, and west coast too. I just got back from Seattle. $5 gallon there. I can't imagine what California prices are. No thanks! 

[thetragichippy]

2 hours ago, DCT said:

Trump ran on this promise to lower gas, eggs and the economy.  Still no answers.  The last four years the economy wasn’t nowhere near what they are now.  Trump did all this in only 6 months.

Where you alive during the Biden administration? It is fact gas is lower, eggs are lower, inflation is lower.....and while that is being resolved, he is trying to end wars in the middle east and deporting millions of illegals out of our country.

[thetragichippy]

2 hours ago, Separation Scientist said:

East coast, and west coast too. I just got back from Seattle. $5 gallon there. I can't imagine what California prices are. No thanks! 

I got married in Vegas and spent a week in Cali with a rented car......Filling up HURT🤣

[OlDawg]

1 hour ago, thetragichippy said:

I got married in Vegas and spent a week in Cali with a rented car......Filling up HURT🤣

Just being in Cali hurts. And if in Seattle/Vancouver area, you better learn Mandarin.

[baddog]

Lived in Vegas in early 70s. Gas, bread, milk, all just about same price as here. Don’t know what it is today.

[Separation Scientist]

16 hours ago, OlDawg said:

Just being in Cali hurts. And if in Seattle/Vancouver area, you better learn Mandarin.

I was not going to mention it, but since Seattle came up here goes:

I was in Seattle two weeks ago. To get from SeaTac airport to the City, you take the "rail link" train for $6. Our trip to the city was not that bad, Went to the Pike Market, wharf, etc. All good. I did notice lots of homeless /drug addict types on the rail. Some seemed to be riding without a destination, sleeping, catatonic, etc. 

Second trip on the same rail we decided to go into the city and eat Chinese food. This coincided with the No Kings rally. All I can say it was a pageant of circus freaks. Some examples are two gay guys wearing Communist "hammer and sickle" T-shirts, black bandanas over their face, calling each other "comrade", two tatted up lesbians with shaved heads, a older guy in a Harry Potter Wizard costume, who you could smell from 10 ft. away, and a host of (apparently) Mexicans waving the Mexican flag. They all had some version of "no Kings" and F-Trump signs. You could literally see the hate in their eyes. A circus of angry, deranged, hate filled freaks. 

Seattle is a beautiful place. Sad to see it so Anti-American blue. 

             

[OlDawg]

17 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said:

I was not going to mention it, but since Seattle came up here goes:

I was in Seattle two weeks ago. To get from SeaTac airport to the City, you take the "rail link" train for $6. Our trip to the city was not that bad, Went to the Pike Market, wharf, etc. All good. I did notice lots of homeless /drug addict types on the rail. Some seemed to be riding without a destination, sleeping, catatonic, etc. 

Second trip on the same rail we decided to go into the city and eat Chinese food. This coincided with the No Kings rally. All I can say it was a pageant of circus freaks. Some examples are two gay guys wearing Communist "hammer and sickle" T-shirts, black bandanas over their face, calling each other "comrade", two tatted up lesbians with shaved heads, a older guy in a Harry Potter Wizard costume, who you could smell from 10 ft. away, and a host of (apparently) Mexicans waving the Mexican flag. They all had some version of "no Kings" and F-Trump signs. You could literally see the hate in their eyes. A circus of angry, deranged, hate filled freaks. 

Seattle is a beautiful place. Sad to see it so Anti-American blue. 

             

Last time I was in Vancouver, it was almost Little China. I believe I read somewhere where they finally had to pass some legislation banning Chinese/foreign buyers.

We used to go to Seattle Fleet Week, and book a salmon fishing guide in Victoria Island after the ferry ride from Anacortes. Wife loved salmon fishing (and fresh Dungeness crab LOL). Always a nice time in Seattle area—if you didn’t mind drizzle. Victoria Island is my second favorite place behind Switzerland.

Seattle has gone to pot & Portland is worse. I probably mentioned before I didn’t leave anything on the West Coast that would make me want to go back.

[Separation Scientist]

Agreed. I won't go back to Portland. I was there about 3 years ago and it was a total wreck. 

At the Chinese restaurant we stopped at in Seattle, no one spoke English. All Chinese. We had to communicate by pointing to the menu.