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From ‘Make America Great Again’ to ‘Cope With Being Poor’ in One Election Cycle
Bloomberg has some helpful hints for coping with runaway Bidenflation and Bidenfuelshortages. It basically involves cutting back on buying things that are getting too expensive. (Where would we be without experts, am I right?) And, strangely enough, the exploding cost of fuel under Biden should force us into driving less, getting rid of our cars, and switching to unreliable, union-staffed public transportation just like the environmental extremists have been pushing for years.
To deal with gas prices, it’s worth reconsidering public transportation if it’s an option where you live. Fares are up about 8% compared with 38% for gasoline. Now may even be the time to sell your car.
Also, hopefully, you aren’t too terribly fond of your household pets.
If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs.
Also, switch from meat to lentils as an intermediate step between our meat-enjoying past and our bug-eating “you will own nothing and be happy” future.
Tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%). Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.
The author probably doesn’t realize that beans and lentils depend on hydrocarbon intensive fertilizers and planting/harvesting machines. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Berkeley and is on the Board of a Left-Wing Think Tank.
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Routes sometimes get reduced – fewer trips per day – or removed entirely, if usage is low. But I suppose that if “everyone” will be using them in the future, more trips will have to be added. Using buses that have to be made with chips from Taiwan to reduce emissions, which means they can’t be made… Isn’t Leftism wonderful?
You’re right. Could be noticeable savings right there.
They know so much better how to spend your money than you do, don’tcha know?
From another hyperinflation, Zimbabwe circa 2008:
Funniest part to me is where they say “I promise to pay the bearer on demand…” What? Two 50-trillion-dollar bills for a 100? Or maybe five 20s?
“Tasty meat substitutes include vegetables”
This alone should spark the Texan secession.
The only proper substitute for some meat, is other meat.
Jimmy Carter called, he wants his sweater back
It’s “Eight O’clock in the Morning.”
Easy. First eliminate Local, state and Federal government jobs that have a net negative impact, then those that just waste lots of money and are unnecessary. That’d be a good 90 percent reduction.
Pete Buttjudge has a 2024 presidential slogan: A lentil in every pot!
The supermarket silly….
Can you elaborate on the map comment? I’m wondering the following:
Could Google be changing what comes up on GPS to re-route people deliberately? This was a suggestion from the World Economic Forum in that pandemic video……..to get people to stop driving…….
Does anyone notice how all these very intense world events are producing exactly what the WEF wants? Oil and gas shortages, less driving, no one can afford anything, skyrocketing meat prices – find an alternative, the list goes on and on…..?
I am seeing more cyber warnings coming up – and they’re getting ready to blame Russia – could this be the next “re-set” the financial sector and they have all the answers of course – federal crypto-currency…..
I never thought we’d think Jimmy Carter wasn’t that bad, but next to Obama or Brandon, he was pretty darn good…..
And that’s all you’re getting buddy – one lentil…
Map is easy. Go to Google map and select start and destination points. There is a selection for travel method. Drive, walk, fly, public transportation
Also bicycle. For purposes of personal amusement only. You should see some of the so-called roads it has led me to.
I’ve used the public transport option when planning travel in Europe. It can be helpful but it’s best not to rely on its accuracy.
Not sure about it accuracy but if I go to the local public transit site they use google maps to figure out their information.
To quote Alan Sherman: bye bye, Bloomberg.
Definitely reflects the depth of thinking of some leftists (see, for example, Congresscritter Ocasio-Cortez).
Of course, how many lentils will you have to eat to feel the same degree of fullness you would get from a hamburger? Aren’t they rather
small? Also, what to do with the end product of eating so much of those vegetables and lentils: methane, doncha know?Ya know lentils (legumes) according to some Doctors are a serious cause of Leaking Gut Syndrome and are to be avoided at all cost. But Hey, ya know we all have to sacrifice for the good of the The Great Reset Revolution! Don’t we? Here in LA where a bus drive across town can take a mere 4 hours if you are lucky, public transportation should be of course the preferred mode of transportation, particularly when Uncle Joe Biden’s gas prices are approaching $6.50 a gallon. But we also can all thank our great Supreme Leader for reducing LA’s traffic so drastically because so many now can longer afford to drive. Yea!!!!!
Let’s be honest. Lentils are just a bridge product. Eventually they will get to bugs. They are really into bugs for the masses.
But think about how many buses will be required if everyone is using them…
I don’t think so. Bugs and cows are at the same level on the food chain so it takes about the same amount of energy to make a pound of bugs as a pound of hamburger.
That’s assuming we’re talking about plant-eating bugs.
Do you think it’s all about the environment or just plain subjugation and dominance?
It’s about all of those things. And maybe more that I can’t think of right now.
There you go using logic on Leftist.
Not necessarily.
CONVERSION OF FOOD INTO PROTEIN
First of all, crickets require about 12 times less food than beef for the same edible weight gain. In fact, 2.4kg of fodder (food given to cattle) are necessary to produce 100g of beef, against 200g of food for crickets.
And:
Currently we use several different types of feed formulations. Their composition varies based on the age of the cricket. We use feed that’s very similar to chicken feed, containing a mix of grains and flours but we are also testing formulations that have a substantial proportion of biowaste.
We know that crickets can convert feed into edible weight more efficiently than chickens. And we think it should be possible to have a feed made up of 100 % biowaste. It will just take our research and development team some time. Currently, we are testing agricultural waste streams like grains from breweries or fruit waste from juice producers.
I’m about to start grinding up environmentalists.