Dean Norris: Youre not getting "robbed" at the pump. You're paying fair market price for a commodity

[tenderfoot]

Link to tweet

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. I don't love robber barons.

[House of Roberts]

2. Who is Dean Norris anyway?

Am I supposed to be impressed by this?

[Sneederbunk]

3. An actor from Breaking Bad who thinks he has influence.

[Dr. Strange]

8. He's a DEA agent.

I don't know how impressed you should be by that, though--his wife's brother-in-law was heavily involved in the creation of meth and this guy was oblivious.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. ....

[BannonsLiver]

4. His point is stop whining about gas prices if you are a free market enthusiast

Which I agree with. It’s also clearly meant for those complaining loudest about gas prices which tend to be free market loving RWers.

Looks like the point went over a couple people’s heads.

[tenderfoot]

6. "Looks like the point went over a couple people's heads."

I know right?

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Agreed

The STFU should have been the clincher.

[Nay]

13. No kidding it went over a bunch of heads. You have to wonder exactly how dumb

people really are. Pretty dumb, I guess. And easily programmable by RW Qers.

And here we are, in a world ready to implode from stupidity.

[Captain Stern]

5. He has a good point

That's how Capitalism works.

I think he's needling the folks that defend unregulated Capitalism while at the same time complaining about how much they are having to pay for gas.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Yep, anyone who willingly hands over money for a product

is not being "robbed." Gouged, maybe, but not robbed. And, what kills me is that many of these complainers are doing nothing to cut back on their gas consumption, like driving less and slowing down.

[shrike3]

10. I actually said something similar to that the other day.

Americans show time and time again they don't want "socialism." Okay. Capitalism is about profit, not the public good. It's called consequences.

[JI7]

11. People complain but still willing to pay and don't want to make changes

[Hortensis]

14. Paraphrasing a question: If soaring gas prices now are mostly from supplier greed,

does that mean that very low gas prices during the pandemic were caused by feelings of altruism, even charitable urges, among suppliers?