What is going on? I wrote yesterday about Frozen Gas Prices here in Panama, but we still have no relief from the protests. In that post, I mentioned that Biden had frozen some gas at $3.99 in the United States.
I was talking to a friend who lives in Texas this morning and she said they don't buy gas at Kroger because they have to give them their information to get the $3.99 gas. Other places have $3.99 gas signs and don't require giving extra information at this point to receive that price.
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Then I received a message in a group I'm in here that said to get the $3.25 price for gas, you have to go to one of the 500 stations that offer it, give them your identification number and license plate number, and then ask for the subsidized price.
Why are two different countries doing something similar in regards to tracking your gas usage in order to give you a discount? Why are they tracking our usage?
Could it be that social credit scores are right around the corner for many of us? They already track us on our phones and with our credit cards.
Various items are subsidized here in Panama, yet it appears they only track our usage of subsidized gasoline. Why do they not track us when we buy a subsidized bag of rice or beans?
Over the weekend, my husband and I watched the movie Eagle Eye. If you haven't seen it, check it out and see how many places they can track you...
