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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Just for the sake of argument: It's possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that's roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).

That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we'd be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 points 23 hours ago

But how much profit would that generate for shareholders? /s

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[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

They say anything to get into power. Literally anything. None of it matters and they know it.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 90 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good thing the fiscally responsible party is in power

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Gotta spend money to make genocides

[–] towerful@programming.dev 210 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We can call it the Department Of Grifting Everyone

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 153 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For healthcare? Education? Can’t possibly imagine what …

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Maybe they are secretly building a super efficient and expansive social safety net behind our backs and making it a surprise!!!!

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn ... if only there was a department of government efficiency to stop insane and fiscally irresponsible shit like this.

Or ... we need a branch of government that "controls the purse" so crazy spending like this doesnt happen.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually, we did all those things and now America is Great Again

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

This will have to be re-edited to ONE TREELLION DOLLARS.

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[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 76 points 1 day ago (9 children)

interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year

If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests... I ain't no economist but that seems like a lot.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gets worse when you realize it’s mostly the middle class paying it

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 66 points 1 day ago (8 children)

There's no such a thing as 'middle class'. The working class is paying all of it.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Trump has never paid his bills a day in his life.

He fucked over his own chauffeur, and thousands of his contractors and employees. He's declared bankruptcy something like eight times, leaving investors with nothing. He's gone to court over a thousand times; no other real estate developer has these problems. Interestingly, his mentor was Roy Cohn, who had the same issue of skipping bills (coincidentally I am sure).

So, long story short for libbies, Trump will buy a company named "American Fury MAGA USA Friends" and transfer all the country's debt to it, and THEN that company will declare a new feature he's devised, called "Supreme Bankruptcy" which cannot be overturned by the Supreme Court because it's Supreme, too.

Problem solved, in your face commies

......

Related to this problem, our entire country's financial system is based on debt; we don't even control our own money. The FED is controlled by select appointed bankers, who practically all work for banks or are on the boards of banks and investment firms before and after their appointed terms.

The dollar is worth less every year for a reason, it's called profiteering. It's designed to collapse; with each collapse these same interests buy everything once prices are tanked. Then, they start the process again. Every year it gets exponentially worse because math is mean.

They don't even hide it.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/who-we-are.htm

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