{"id":127025,"date":"2022-06-19T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127025"},"modified":"2022-06-19T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T16:43:43","slug":"love-capitalism-stfu-about-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127025","title":{"rendered":"Love capitalism? STFU about gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-higher-gas-prices-and-less-reliant-on-fossil-fuels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-higher-gas-prices-and-less-reliant-on-fossil-fuels-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-higher-gas-prices-and-less-reliant-on-fossil-fuels-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-higher-gas-prices-and-less-reliant-on-fossil-fuels-484x333.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Joe-Biden-on-higher-gas-prices-and-less-reliant-on-fossil-fuels.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breaking Bad actor, Dean Norris, argued that gas prices are at fair value, and that if you&#8217;re for capitalism, you should just STFU and pay! This was a comment that he posted on Twitter. This did not sit well with many posters. One pointed out his net worth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tweet garnered more than 7,200 retweets and 66,000 likes as of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet also garnered some pushback from people who pointed out that Norris is wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Easy to say when you have a net worth of 5 mil&#8221; one person commented.<\/p>\n<p>Norris&#8217; social media post comes as Americans are seeing record-high gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>The national average for a gallon of gas sits at more than $4.98, according to AAA. Norris lives in California, where gas is the most expensive at an average of more than $6.40 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest price for gas in the country is in Georgia, where Peach State residents are seeing an average price of around $4.48 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>At this time a year ago, the national average was $3.70, AAA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Before this year, the highest national gas price average ever recorded by AAA was $4.114 per gallon in July 2008.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden accused oil refiners of driving up gas prices in letters sent last week to seven refinery operators, including ExxonMobil and BP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sharp rise in gasoline prices is not driven only by rising oil prices, but by an unprecedented disconnect between the price of oil and the price of gas,&#8221; the president&#8217;s letters read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Youre not getting \u201crobbed\u201d at the pump. You\u2019re paying fair market price for a commodity. If you love Capitalism so much then stfu<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dean Norris (@deanjnorris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deanjnorris\/status\/1536958973198274560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You could read the Fox News article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/breaking-bad-actor-americans-should-stfu-gas-prices-love-capitalism\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking Bad actor, Dean Norris, argued that gas prices are at fair value, and that if &hellip; <a title=\"Love capitalism? STFU about gas prices\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127025\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love capitalism? 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