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atomickerStanford added that Canadians shouldn’t accept the “roller-coaster” of world oil markets as natural or inevitable. Oil supplies actually increased between 2021-2022, from 96.7 to 101.3 million barrels a day.“We didn’t have to go through that (...) maybe we should think about this so that we don’t go through it needlessly again in the future.”<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a>

atomickerRising oil prices indirectly impacted grocery prices: “Grocery stores definitely played a role (in inflation),” Stanford said. “But the impact of grocery profits is small potatoes compared to what we’re seeing from oil prices.”<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a>

atomickerOil & gas companies raised prices after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starting 'a chain reaction of higher prices for Canadian consumers that cost households $12,000 each between 2022 and 2024':<a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/study-finds-fossil-fuel-prices-largest-source-of-post-covid-inflation-warns-of-repeat-due/article_7b774166-00e6-11f0-8028-d3424a6fdcd1.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/business/study-finds-fossil-fuel-prices-largest-source-of-post-covid-inflation-warns-of-repeat-due/article_7b774166-00e6-11f0-8028-d3424a6fdcd1.html</a><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a>

atomickerThe study 'recognizes that there were many causes for inflation coming out of the pandemic', but 'the fossil fuel industry was the largest single source.'<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a>

TC Won't Give In To LiesAs if on cue, here's another £4B in grotesque profits from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greedflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greedflation</a> helped by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToryCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryCorruption</a> in raising the energy price cap during a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeopleNotProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeopleNotProfit</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/20/energy-network-owners-have-made-39bn-from-higher-bills-says-report" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/20/energy-network-owners-have-made-39bn-from-higher-bills-says-report</a>

TC Won't Give In To LiesWTF is happening at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guardian</a> ? This insane Turtle Media deal, firing reporters and AI partnership with super-shady OpenAI.And now this *horrible* framing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishGas</a> profits have actually returned to normal after OFGEM insanely raised the energy price cap in a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a> to help juice their profits.The CSP should come even lower. Profits should come even lower. THAT will help drive economic growth <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeopleNotProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeopleNotProfit</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/20/british-gas-owner-centrica-reports-slump-annual-profits" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/20/british-gas-owner-centrica-reports-slump-annual-profits</a>

IainHow many people could you house and feed for a year, if you used the money for that instead of an OTT firework display on the Thames? Just wondering... <a href="https://social.psychodog.co.uk/tags/NYE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYE</a> <a href="https://social.psychodog.co.uk/tags/Fireworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fireworks</a> <a href="https://social.psychodog.co.uk/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a>

Peter RileyThis injustice may yet cause unrest ?Poverty in Australia (2024 Probably 4 million struggling & many more working poor) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia#:~:text=19.3%25%20after%20benefits.-,Henderson%20Inquiry,child%20endowment%20for%20two%20children" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia#:~:text=19.3%25%20after%20benefits.-,Henderson%20Inquiry,child%20endowment%20for%20two%20children</a>.Henderson poverty line = $612.10 a week for a single person…median weekly rent value across all Australian dwellings is $627 a week…price of food was up more than 17% for households…<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/12/centrelink-welfare-payments-increasing-youth-studen-carer-details-indexation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/12/centrelink-welfare-payments-increasing-youth-studen-carer-details-indexation</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blameCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blameCapitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingpoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingpoor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/costoflivingcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#costoflivingcrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AUWU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AUWU</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayCash is back (sort of), for a range of reasons, but mostly among older consumers; and this despite banks' best efforts to make using cash and difficult as they can (not least so they can skim off transaction charges for e-payments).However, given young people's rediscovery of all sorts of vintage tech, perhaps they'll next 'discover' cash?<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#money</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el81lenq1o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el81lenq1o</a>

ABY BUT IN ALLCAPScoughcoughwhiteliberals<a href="https://aus.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poor</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unemployment</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RecordProfitsCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RecordProfitsCrisis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/houselessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#houselessness</a>

ABY BUT IN ALLCAPSI just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??" I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄<a href="https://aus.social/tags/RegionalAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegionalAustralia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Bathurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bathurst</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BathurstNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BathurstNSW</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/houselessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#houselessness</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poor</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unemployment</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Centerlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Centerlink</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostOfLivingCrisis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RecordProfitsCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RecordProfitsCrisis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#housing</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MutualAid</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityNotCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityNotCops</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FuckThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckThePolice</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AllCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllCops</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EvenSecurityGuards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvenSecurityGuards</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityCare</a>

Godfrey642So... my mum lived through the London Blitz in 1940. 250,000 ppl made instantly <a href="https://aus.social/tags/homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeless</a>. A massive <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Housingcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Housingcrisis</a> in the extreme for the Govt, and not just in London. There was a *Housing For All Policy* to get ppl into accommodation, albeit temporary <a href="https://aus.social/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#housing</a> until permanent <a href="https://aus.social/tags/socialhousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialhousing</a> could be built. It worked. My parents lived comfortably and safe in "prefabs" for 3 yrs KNOWING a proper home would be given to them. There are ways to sort this social housing crisis now. It's easy in comparison to post war Europe when governments had zero available cash. Its been done before on a far greater scale.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol2024</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/affordablehousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#affordablehousing</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#australia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/socialhousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialhousing</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/costofhousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#costofhousing</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Costoflivingcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Costoflivingcrisis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/australianpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#australianpolitics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auslabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auslabor</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/albaneselaborgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#albaneselaborgovernment</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AntonyAlbanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntonyAlbanese</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AnthonyAlbanesePM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnthonyAlbanesePM</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AustraliaPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AustraliaPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese</a>

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