“When losses happen, somebody’s got to pay for it.”
Called Freedom Fuel Network, the enterprise encompasses dozens of gas stations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, USA Today reported, although it isn’t exactly clear which locations are open for business. Plastered in American flag decals and “Freedom Fuel” branding, the gas stations seem to be selling unleaded gasoline for the fixed-price of $3.47 per gallon, about 32 cents cheaper than the current average price in the US.
According to GasBuddy, nearby prices range from $3.85 to as much as $4.49 — no doubt reflecting the slower drip of oil from the president’s costly war on Iran, which burst back into active fighting this week.
As head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy Patrick De Haan told the Philadelphia Inquirer, the current price of crude oil means there’s no way Freedom Fuel’s $3.47 price point can turn a profit.
“Stations selling at this price, it’s not sustainable,” De Haan explained. “Generally, when losses happen, somebody’s got to pay for it.”
De Haan raises an obvious question: who is paying for it? If the stations are losing money on every gallon, somebody has to make up the difference somewhere — whether out of Trump’s pocket, that of a friendly donor, or the taxpayer’s. And if it’s a private company taking the hit, how long until they stop subsidizing Pennsylvania drivers?
Already, the stunt seems to be distorting local markets. As of Wednesday, a nearby Sam’s Club in Dresher dropped its price to match the $3.47 figure — surely good news for anybody buying gas in South Eastern Pennsylvania, but as always, the devil is in the details.
This is all you need to know.
Oh shit
Get an electric vehicle and install solar panels ASAP.
My brother in Christ, I own nothing and am going back to Monke. Like fr fr.
Be the change.
I am being the change. No kids. Electric vehicle. Don’t eat beef. Actively post about climate change. Promote solar/nuclear power. We can’t go back to monke, we must move forward.
Together we have hope. We will never meet and live far away from one another, but we are not alone and one day we will prevail.
Sometimes we need to go back to monke to remember what is is to be man.
One love.
Did you let them take your future family away or did you never want one?
Can’t speak for the other being, but I have no desire to inflict this world upon another conscious entity. To do so would just be fucking cruel, knowing what’s coming.
I really take issue with your point of view. It’s fine to think that way, but keep it to yourself. Others believe there will be a future that conscious entities will enjoy. Will lives be as easy as those of American baby boomers? Probably not. Will lives be filled with endless suffering? Probably not. Why would you want to tell people you think there won’t be a future? That’s just unnecessary and a bit cruel, imo.
I’ve never wanted one, I’m okay with the burden of knowledge.
This is like something out of a third world country. “Here is some cheap gas so keep supporting me.”
This is like something out of a third world country.
In many important ways, the U.S. already is. Especially in certain parts of the country.
We’ve always been a hood rich country
The Roman’s what? If you pluralize that way, why not also write year’s?
I think the practice is more common with proper nouns and abbreviations. I’d take the underlying principle to be “proper noun and/or abbreviation is special, and we can’t just tack on extra letters as we would with other stuff, so apostrophe to the rescue”. To be clear, I am not agreeing with this, it just seems to be the driving logic.
I would argue in some (not all) ways, the US is third world. So…yeah.
He paid a bunch of existing gas stations to change their name and lower their prices. He will make up the difference by subsidizing the gas stations using tax payer money. I guarantee you this will not be noticed by the majority.
not by the trump bumpkins, they see this as a win, eventhough its not.
Maybe trumps gambit will be our first step towards socialism. Stranger things have occurred.
Considering they already lifted regulations on percentage of ethanol added I can only assume this is %15 gas lol
Bottoms up, bois!
“gas”
Government subsidized gas is not an issue. But that’s not what’s going on. Trump is pocketing the money, cutting the gas with something else, selling stolen gas, or using tax payer funds for it (the last of which is whatever), but whatever he is doing isn’t being done out of the goodness of his heart.
He’s just using it short term to gain fame and when he runs out of gas he says it’s the dems fault. Then the magats cheer
All that Venezuelan oil has to be going somewhere. And someone who isn’t the Venezuelan or American Govt is getting paid.
50% water
And making people drive all over looking for it. So you get “E85” (I can guarantee it’ll be closer to the 50% ethanol than the 80% side), long lines, more traffic and a bad reputation for the gas stations where people buy bad gas.
No cars specifically without flex fuel can run on anything over E85. He’s just draining reserves.
Maybe stock but people tune older cars to run on E85 all the time
If you need to tune the car for it to handle the fuel, it wouldn’t go unnoticed is the point.
Trump is going to go down in history as the most successful career criminal ever.
“Out of Trump’s pocket” LMAO whatever they’re on, I’d like to have some.
I keep seeing claims that Trump is doing this, but I have not seen anyone make any actual assertions of an evidence to that effect.
While Trump has jumped on the promotion, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s in on it somehow, it really sounds to me like some MAGA asshat who’s trying to take advantage for publicity.
I’d really like to know who’s paying for it, though, and why. Maybe it’s just an introductory price to convince people they’ll sell it for less, but I don’t see how that’ll get long-term customers.
Either way, the wild claims with nothing to back them up (i.e. OP’s title) really annoy me. There’s so much to be angry at. Fabricating lies is not needed. Or certainly saying things that are not known to be true - even the article doesn’t say Trump is doing this, just the submitted title.
I keep seeing claims that Trump is doing this, but I have not seen anyone make any actual assertions of an evidence to that effect.
You can always tell when someone doesn’t read the article, sees the headline, and jumps straight into the comments because it’s literally right there in both the article and the short version.
At the beginning of the article referenced:
The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
The White House announced the initiative on July 7 on X with a video of customers thanking President Donald Trump for lowering gas prices. The gas stations are located in the greater Philadelphia area, the White House told USA TODAY in an email on Tuesday, July 7.
I mean, did Trump come up with this idea? Very unlikely. I mean we all know how he operates at this point. Someone approaches him with an idea or product, and all Trump does is slap his name on it, ie: Trump Steaks, Trump Mobile, etc. and then he collects the royalties or kickbacks or whatever.
Either way, the wild claims with nothing to back them up
Again, you clearly didn’t read the article
i.e. OP’s title
Not my title, the community rules state:
- Post titles should be the same as the article used as the source. Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed.
even the article doesn’t say Trump is doing this, just the submitted title.
It’s in the actual article, not the TL;DR version for brevity because people don’t read full articles.
In a July 1st post on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, the president praised a “VERY smart Retailer” for “stepping up,” and “lowering gas prices at 25 ‘FREEDOM FUEL’ Stations across the Greater Philadelphia Area.”
“This Retailer is taking the lead, and others should follow,” Trump lauded. “They are doing this because they love the USA.”
What, do you expect him to run it personally or something? It’s directly posted on the whitehouse.gov site. While everyone out here is using him to make money, if it’s on the .gov website it doesn’t really matter who came up with the idea, he stamped it, and had it put up on a government official site. If you want a list of where these actually are, they’re available on the Freedom Fuel website. Feel free to go drive out to them.
Likely both. The fuel has to come from somewhere. An established refinery or distributor has to be involved. You can’t just sell gas from a lemonade pitcher, stations are highly regulated as well.
My guess would be some donor and some oil industry VP of Bafoonery came up with a plan to force prices lower in a couple states with important seats coming up in the midterms. Just for the good vibes. The lower price forces everyone else to drop to at-cost sales. And the legal top cover you get Miller, T-Shiz, and Bessent.
Is it possible Trump or MAGA or someone affiliated is trying to make the entire fuel station system go belly up in Pennsilvania so that they can have the monopoly?
I think it’s more likely to influence midterms. But who knows. Heh
I’m fairly sure the business was traced back to a corporation that Trump dealt with in previous instances.
Willing to wager these gasoline inventories are getting diluted well beyond our normal summer blend thresholds.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2210988/donald-trump-giving-communism-try-government-approved/
When I first heard this story, the article gave me a laugh.
Communism is when gas prices low.
Couldn’t you say that all US gas stations are suspiciously cheap? This is just a little more straightforward, but it is a pretty subsidized industry. Unless I’m thinking about that wrong.
Honestly, how do most countries gas stations work, do they purchase fuel from the government?
Confused where he has got this chearp fuel from - is he selling the reseve?
Venezuela maybe?
I’m all for hating on Trump as much as the next guy, but gas prices by me are around $3.39 across the board, so I don’t understand how the GaaBuddy CEO can say a price like that is impossible.
Targeting Pennsylvania metros and other swing states near you!
PENNSYLVANIa already drank the koolaid more than once.
