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Can we surpass June 2022 gas prices? I believe that trump can outperform Biden in this regard
Everyone tried to blame Biden for the spike. Wasn’t his fault that we had the worldwide whiplash in demand for fuel once Covid started to clear.
We all said rightly that the president doesn’t control gas prices, at least those of us who had half a clue how economics worked did.
I guess we were only partly right.
Because when you bomb a country that controls a passageway for 20%+ of the world’s oil and LNG placing oil shipments in a chokehold, you sure as hell affect gas prices.
Even that wasn't the cause. It was the start of the Ukraine war disrupting all of Russia's supply on top of rebounding demand and idled production elsewhere.
It was so far outside the presidents control it was hilarious, but that didn't stop all the MAGA yahoots from putting Biden "I did that" stickers on the gas pumps.
Meanwhile the current spike is 100% completely undeniably Trumps own fault, yet everyone scrapes down the trump "I did that" stickers I keep putting up.
The logic is mostly sound because president's don't have a magic dial to control oil prices. But the logic also has sane decision making baked into it - president's consider the effects that their actions will have on the price of oil and don't do shit like this that will definitely increase it. Since that sanity no longer holds , the logic no longer holds .
I see what happened here... Gas was getting very cheap, and that's no good for the people employing the yacht builders.
What happened in June 2022? Increased demand from returning to normal after COVID?
And Return to Office mandates at many places.
And even though all this was rather obvious, the redcap dumbasses were blaming Biden, because, well, they are really fucking stupid.
My coworker kept saying that it was because Biden didn't want to drill, even though oil production during the Biden administration was the highest in history at the time. I offered to show her the numbers and she said she didn't care about the numbers.
It's all about the vibes. The movement that always accuses liberals of being about "emotions" (because they show empathy) are the emotional ones, it turns out.