I think that gasoline diluted with ethanol is one of the most pervasive examples of how the wealth has been stolen from us.
There are multiple ways to view it, but the simplest way to think of it is that folks spend more currency for less gasoline at the pump.
The price of gasoline changing doesn't matter if it keeps getting diluted. The real price of gasoline is the 100% pure stuff. Bucc-ee's tends to have it for less than $4/gal, but most stations sell it for $4/gal and up. Plus, it's an effort to find it. Most gas stations sell only adulterated gasoline.
Just my two cents.
Timeline of events:
>15 minute city so you can walk to your goy slave job
>gas prices increase artificially, clear gas prices increase by a much larger amount (its much more expensive)
>your affordable car from 2000 gets raped by Ethanol fuel after so long of using it
>you are not rich enough to afford a tesla, you are not rich enough to afford new makes and models. All old vehicles are becoming shittier and shittier. Eventually the government will pull some regulation out of their ass about why you can't drive them within the borders of [15 minute city]. Expect some horse shit like "you cannot drive a car without at least a backup camera screen in the center console. It's now considered a necessary (((safety feature))) (modern cars are already *required* to be manufactured with this in america)
>you're stuck in your 15 minute slum
>you cannot get away from your goy slave job.
>bus won't take you anywhere far away. Train? Get fucked. The train infrastructure of the US hasn't existed since the 50s.
Just tossing out a slight correction - gas cars will soon be positioned as luxuries for the rich. EVs will be the common goy car, as they are easy to electronically limit and functionally cannot compete on range.
This has already happened in certain countries, e.g. China, where most of the country's people's first car was an EV that could be purchased for an insanely low cost, with the 'only' limit being that they stay with X minutes of a large city.
They've never known the go-anywhere fix-anywhere with analogue tools freedom of a gas car, and will never be able to afford one. Even ford shitboxes cost 3 times an decked-out EV over there. Mid-tier BMWs can cost a half million, in USD.