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HUGE drop in gas prices! Thanks Joe!

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This is absolutely hilarious. The most entertaining news of the day. Just check out this impressive graph with the stretched-out x-axis. Even WaPo enjoyed the comedy of this.
But sadly, comedy wasn't the intent - intentional misleading was the intent.
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www.yahoo.com

‘Truly dumb’: Democrats mocked for Twitter graphic thanking Biden for 2-cent gas price drop

Party’s triumphant message has been ridiculed by left, right and centre alike
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www.businessinsider.com

DCCC tweets misleading chart congratulating Biden for gas prices dropping 2 cents a gallon

Stretching the X-axis, the chart makes a 2 cent price decrease look far more dramatic than it really is.
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It is still expensive no matter what ..............
 
So telling the truth and using a line chart to prove it is intentionally misleading when Democrats do it . . . but not Republicans when they do exactly the same thing?
 
Patriotic Voter said:
So telling the truth and using a line chart to prove it is intentionally misleading when Democrats do it . . . but not Republicans when they do exactly the same thing?
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Yep, a $0.02/gallon price drop can be made to look very impressive. The savings on a 30 gallon purchase would be a whopping $0.60 - almost enough for a small cup of fountain soda pop.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, a $0.02/gallon price drop can be made to look very impressive. The savings on a 30 gallon purchase would be a whopping $0.60 - almost enough for a small cup of fountain soda pop.
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Nice job deliberately ignoring the whole point of my post.
 
What a great setup, if it goes up, you complain, if it goes down, you complain, if it stays the same, you complain...
 
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I have ridden my bike more miles than my car this week. I did one mile in the car today to 20 miles on the bike. Yesterday, 0 car miles, 17 bike miles....
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, a $0.02/gallon price drop can be made to look very impressive. The savings on a 30 gallon purchase would be a whopping $0.60 - almost enough for a small cup of fountain soda pop.
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And since the average car holds 12 gallons of gas, most are saving 24 cents each time they completely fill their tank. Forget that small cup of soda pop for the average car owner. But after 4 full tanks, you would have saved enough to buy a single Snickers bar.
 
beefheart said:
What a great setup, if it goes up, you complain, if it goes down, you complain, if it stays the same, you complain...
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Dude...they are crowing over a 2 cent drop and crafted a charge to try and make it look huge. Do you seriously not get that? We don't agree but I don't think you're stupid.
 
beefheart said:
I have ridden my bike more miles than my car this week. I did one mile in the car today to 20 miles on the bike. Yesterday, 0 car miles, 17 bike miles....
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That's awesome, seriously.
 
beefheart said:
I have ridden my bike more miles than my car this week. I did one mile in the car today to 20 miles on the bike. Yesterday, 0 car miles, 17 bike miles....
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Well, that will certainly save you money and provide good exercise.
 
Although my personal favorite lying graph was this one that was trying to make it look like Florida's "stand your ground" was reducing the murder rate.

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Inverted the ****ing Y axis.
 
Patriotic Voter said:
He obviously DID ignore my point because the reply did not address it at all.
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It addressed it, murdered it, got a shovel out and put it in the ground where nobody will find it again. RIP your point.
 
Fishking said:
Did you really just rebut a $0.02 drop in prices with a $0.40. ****ing-A dude, LOLOLOLOLOL.
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Check out that X-axis.

You got tricked, that's ironic.
 
Patriotic Voter said:
Nice job deliberately ignoring the whole point of my post.
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People like the OP and Fishking are going to do crap like that. They're still slaves the the notion that trickle down economics work because their evil overlords, the Republicans tell them so. They suspect they've been misled but unfortunately for people like the OP and Fishking, they're burning hatred of Democrats obliterates their better judgement.

No current Republican will ever credit any Democrat for doing any good for anything. Heck people in that party called in death threats to people in their own party after passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill - not because they didn't like the bill, but because they were concerned passing it would help Democrats politically.

Republicans have lost their way.
 
Fishking said:
It addressed it, murdered it, got a shovel out and put it in the ground where nobody will find it again. RIP your point.
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It did none of that.

My point could not have been more obvious. No Republican is even slightly willing to start thinking about trying to look for any evidence that I was wrong.
 
Gas prices here are down .20 to .30 this past week, I'll take it.
 
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