Fuel price hike sparks panic and long queues at Pattaya petrol stations

Let's call it what it is. TTT. The Trump Tehran Tax. The entire world suffers and experiences economic pain, due to one imbecile fighting a war without a plan, and without an end game.

For the many Trump supporters on this forum could you please explain how you feel right now about a 40% increase in the price of gasoline in Thailand? Is this a sacrifice you're willing to make? Does the mysterious end game somehow justify this massive level of inflation being caused by your circus clown?

Woe is America, and the world suffers the hubris and ignorance.

This war initially started with a declaration that it was about stopping Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability.

Once that was debunked Trump quickly pivoted to regime change expecting millions of Iranians to take to the streets while he was devastating their homes factories and infrastructure. Well we all know how poorly that went, and how little the war planners knew.

Now the big mission seems to be securing the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians have been very clever in their tactics and they have caused considerable pain to the world economy and their neighbors. Securing the strait is going to be a very difficult job. In his usual daily bluster, the boviator in chief talked about how easy it was going to be for the US Navy to escort ships through the strait. Well we know that's not going to be the case, it's actually going to be quite difficult.

Trump is likely going to choose some sort of off-ramp very soon, without having achieved any of the goals he set forth, having set Iran back decades in terms of infrastructure, and completely failing at anything in the way of democratic progress or regime change for the Iranian people.

That will be just another war that the US has lost, and will add to the tally of Zero Wars won since World War II unless you count Grenada or Panama. The US military is huge and they do have the largest defense budget of any nation, but they don't seem to accomplish very much with that trillion dollars a year that's being spent.

Just another in the hundreds upon hundreds of failures for big Don.

Only a few days ago thai government said they have stocks for 2 months. But they not say Iran let oil through for thailand but sold it to Cambodia who they were fighting with

On 4/2/2026 at 8:38 AM, CygnusX1 said:

Maybe the increase in the fuel price will encourage some people to use a baht bus instead a car, thus reducing traffic congestion.

The baht busses hardly cover the needs of many folks who live in or around Pattaya... more just a bit of local transport and shuttling tourists about. I expect operators will be less enamored with a 10 baht earning with current diesel prices.