Even "Freedom Fuel" Is Too Damned High!

 

by Pa Rock

Consumer

Last week Donald Trump began promoting a mysterious product called "Freedom Fuel," specially priced gasoline available at a chain of 25 or so independently owned gas stations based primarily in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (a presidential "swing" state), and parts of New Jersey.  The product which Trump is personally pitching is priced at $3.47 a gallon for regular - when the average national price is (as of today) $3.87.   Both of those prices are still considerably higher than the $2.98 per gallon that was the US average for regular on February 27, 2026 - the day Trump and Netanyahu launched their war on Iran.  That same day it was $2.49 a gallon in my little berg of West Plains, Missouri.

Trump seems to know who is behind the cheap gasoline, but guarding that information tighter than if it was part of the Epstein files.  It would be nice if other retailers had access to the same cheap gas so that more Americans could enjoy the benefits.

The mysterious new gasoline brand is priced at $3.47 a gallon as a political nod to Donald Trump, the 47th President.  It's a comfort to know that as Americans are literally struggling to survive, we are governed by a narcissist who wants his name, image, or a reminder of his supreme presence on everything.

Americans need lower-priced gasoline so they can get to their multiple minimum-wage jobs after dropping their kids off at unlicensed babysitters - or to go to the grocery store and buy food that is overpriced due to high transportation costs and the skyrocketing price of fertilizer - or go to the Emergency Room and wait hours for medical care because they are uninsured and not able to afford see a regular physician -  or rush home for a few hours sleep in the trailer they are forced to share with another family (or two) in order to make ends meet.

Chill out, America.  Donald Trump feels your pain as he putts around the back nine - and when it comes to gas, nobody generates more than Donald John Trump!

End the war.

Release the Epstein files.