• KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    the speculative gas prices need to go.

    calculate the price, and then a reasonable profit margin on top of that. i don’t wanna tune ito the “stock market of consumable goods” everytime my car runs out.

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      10 months ago

      Just stock up on gasoline futures when they’re cheap, then trade them in at the pump when you need it. Then you never have to worry again!

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          10 months ago

          They were being facetious and pretending your average person could just buy gas the same way that oil barrel speculation works, almost like buying vouchers. It was a pretty good one so I don’t want them to have to explain the joke haha.

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            10 months ago

            Actually, where I live there is (or at least was) a business that allowed you to buy something akin to “gasoline futures”, basically you could just buy X liters of gas or diesel and then use them up overtime using a client card or something like that. Not too sure how it worked, forgot the name too.

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      10 months ago

      The problem is that for most of the world, we’re kinda dependent on Saudi Arabia and Russia to do that

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          10 months ago

          Biggest producer, but it’s largely for internal demand if I’m not mistaken. Besides, if you restricted exports, it would raise prices even more for everyone else