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Originally Posted by Reason10
Actually, over the last twelve months, President Trump negotiated with a few Middle East leaders to call off the oil war with Russia, in order to maintain the price of oil and not put American oil companies out of business. American oil companies were at the time the ONLY reason we weren't paying $5 a gallon at the pump. (That and the fact that oil is still traded in US Dollars, which represents the reserve currency of the world.)
Racist Joe stopping the Keystone Pipeline is the SOLE reason why middle to low income workers have had an addition $100 a week added to their debt burden in the form of gasoline price hikes.
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So which do you want? Higher oil prices to help oil companies or lower oil prices to help low income consumers? The Saudi-Russia oil price war beginning in March 2020 saw a 65% quarterly drop in crude prices from expanded production. By June, thanks largely to pressure from Trump, the Saudis cut production, bringing oil prices back up. This helped producers and hurt consumers.
No major US producers were in danger of going out of business. That's an unsubstantiated assertion on your part. And what rationale and data do you have to support your claim that pump prices would otherwise have been at $5 gallon?
Finally, show me some data that supports your still unsupported by logic and fact claim that keystone is costing people $100 a week.