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hockeybub89
06/08/22 2:03:10 AM
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Imagine seeing unchecked capitalism and greed and blaming it on one country's president and a Green New Deal that doesn't even exist.

How do millions of people fall for such obvious bullshit? "Big Oil would love to have gasoline less than $2, but the darn big gubmint leftists and their bans are crippling them. They would love to pass the savings on to us if the libs would leave the free market alone."

The gymnastics required to demand the government lower prices while leaving the market alone are pretty impressive tbh.

Maybe the Democrats are the problem... for being just as weak as the Republicans when it comes to standing up against the corporate donors.

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PatrickMahomes
06/08/22 2:07:37 AM
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isn't this one of those things where this isn't actually a partisan issue, it's actually an issue with oil/gas worldwide?

i mean, it's easy to blame the politicians, and it's easy to blame the corporations, but that just feels a little... too easy.

think about it, we're seeing posts from all over the world about gas. i saw one from france where it was the equivalent of like $7.50 USD per gallon.

so like, to blame it all on the corporations would imply that every gas company in the world gathered via zoom and said okay let's raise our prices slowly over time and we all win, ready set go. because gas is high everywhere. i also think the "record breaking profits" talking point, while valid to an extent, is unfortunately just bad timing due to the high demand resulting from people traveling for pleasure and being forced to commute back to work every day.

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Chadwick69
06/08/22 2:08:34 AM
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hockeybub89 posted...
Maybe the Democrats are the problem... for being just as weak as the Republicans
BOTH SIDES

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RareSpiderman
06/08/22 2:08:59 AM
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Biden's 2024 campaign slogan: "It's not my fault!"
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YellowSUV
06/08/22 2:09:16 AM
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Biden should start talking about nationalizing oil companies. That would drop prices really quick.

Reminder that oil was more expensive in 2008, but gas prices are higher right now.

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Eramir
06/08/22 2:48:14 AM
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Most people know that but Republicans are willing to lie about it to so their team wins
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MabusIncarnate
06/08/22 2:49:27 AM
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Eramir posted...
Most people know that but Republicans are willing to lie about everything so their team wins


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_BlueMonk
06/08/22 3:29:36 AM
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No no tc. Biden has a dial in the office. He turns its up because he's confused and old!!

Trump would turn it down and make gas free!!!! Maga!!!!

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_BlueMonk
06/08/22 3:33:08 AM
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PatrickMahomes posted...


so like, to blame it all on the corporations would imply that every gas company in the world gathered via zoom and said okay let's raise our prices slowly over time and we all win, ready set go.
I mean

Cable companies literally did that, and still do.

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nexigrams
06/08/22 3:36:33 AM
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Remember when that oil exec got all offended at the idea that they were gonna use the war as an excuse to price gouge in the US even though we get like no oil from Russia at all and literally nothing had happened at that point yet?

Yeah started going up in price WHILE he said that, and hasn't stopped since. It costs 2.5 times as much to fill my tank than it did in February lol. So so so incredibly scummy.

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s0nicfan
06/08/22 3:41:38 AM
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Why would anyone think the president has any say in oil prices? Oh wait...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AABJX0AADOk9.jpg

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sneakysnake
06/08/22 4:12:52 AM
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Good thing I have an EV just when prices spiked in March
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--Zero-
06/08/22 4:22:26 AM
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Low intelligence is to blame.

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EndOfDiscOne
06/08/22 10:29:19 AM
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Eramir posted...
Most people know that but Republicans are willing to lie about it to so their team wins
Democrats blamed Bush back in 2008

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voldothegr8
06/08/22 10:39:10 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
Why would anyone think the president has any say in oil prices? Oh wait...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AABJX0AADOk9.jpg


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RISEofCHRISTIAN
06/08/22 10:42:17 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
Why would anyone think the president has any say in oil prices? Oh wait...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AABJX0AADOk9.jpg

Biased af

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TheChariot6
06/08/22 10:51:53 AM
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Chadwick69 posted...

BOTH SIDES

He's not exactly wrong here. If the Democrats would stop playing nice and just put down the clown already, we wouldn't be having this problem. Democrats are nothing but controlled opposition in this country. As long as all the elites get their money and the country isn't on fire, the DNC is perfectly fine letting Republicans run amok.
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Will_VIIII
06/08/22 10:59:26 AM
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People who blame Biden for current gas prices are far too stupid to have a discussion with, and far too stupid to bother correcting.

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buddhamonster
06/08/22 11:02:51 AM
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_BlueMonk posted...
No no tc. Biden has a dial in the office. He turns its up because he's confused and old!!

Trump would turn it down and make gas free!!!! Maga!!!!
That explains it. He was getting a little cold, went to turn the heat on, and accidently hit the dial for global market prices of oil.

I guess it could have been worse though, he could have accidently hit the dial responsible for hurricanes or something.

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hyperpowder
06/08/22 11:16:25 AM
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Blaming Biden for a global problem is silly. But I think it is justified to blame his lack of responds or at least willingness to help.


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Will_VIIII
06/08/22 11:19:31 AM
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hyperpowder posted...
Blaming Biden for a global problem is silly. But I think it is justified to blame his lack of responds or at least willingness to help.
A price gouging bill barely passed the house, and all Republicans voted against it.

It will likely die in the Senate.

3 branches of government and all...

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RareSpiderman
06/08/22 1:29:20 PM
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Biden is Jimmy Carter 2.0:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election
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bluezero
06/08/22 1:38:56 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
How do millions of people fall for such obvious bullshit?
The last time I filled up my car, someone had placed a "Biden did this" sticker, with Trump pointing so that you could place it on a gas pump. Several things took place for this to happen.
  1. Someone made and sold this sticker
  2. Someone paid real money for (I presume) sheets of these stickers
  3. That person is ok with defacing private property (placing the sticker) in order to spread another big lie


This country is so fucked.

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hockeybub89
06/08/22 1:41:12 PM
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RareSpiderman posted...
Biden's 2024 campaign slogan: "It's not my fault!"
Biden isn't King of Earth. I wouldn't blame Trump for gas prices either, and I want Trump serving life in prison.

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RareSpiderman
06/08/22 1:43:53 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election

Throughout the 1970s, the United States underwent a wrenching period of low economic growth, high inflation and interest rates, and intermittent energy crises.[3] By October 1978, Irana major oil supplier to the United States at the timewas experiencing a major uprising that severely damaged its oil infrastructure and greatly weakened its capability to produce oil.[4] In January 1979, shortly after Iran's leader Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled the country, Iranian opposition figure Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his 14-year exile in France and returned to Iran to establish an Islamic Republic, largely hostile to American interests and influence in the country.[4] In the spring and summer of 1979, inflation was on the rise and various parts of the United States were experiencing energy shortages.[5]

Carter was widely blamed for the return of the long gas lines in the summer of 1979 that was last seen just after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He planned on delivering his fifth major speech on energy, but he felt that the American people were no longer listening...


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LightHawKnight
06/08/22 1:44:22 PM
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hyperpowder posted...
Blaming Biden for a global problem is silly. But I think it is justified to blame his lack of responds or at least willingness to help.

So do you only watch Fox News or what?

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hockeybub89
06/08/22 1:46:02 PM
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But we have done nothing to phase out fossil fuels and literally nothing about the current price of oil has anything to do with any attempts to do so.

Everyone is out travelling again and the oil companies are sitting on their product.

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Alucard188
06/08/22 1:47:06 PM
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Big oil sees which way the winds are shifting, so they would rather get as much blood from the stone as they can, then grind the stone into dust before pivoting away from their cash cow.

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BignutzisBack
06/08/22 1:47:45 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Why would anyone think the president has any say in oil prices? Oh wait...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AABJX0AADOk9.jpg

LOL

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DeadorDead8
06/08/22 1:48:26 PM
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bluezero posted...
The last time I filled up my car, someone had placed a "Biden did this" sticker, with Trump pointing so that you could place it on a gas pump. Several things took place for this to happen.
1. Someone made and sold this sticker
2. Someone paid real money for (I presume) sheets of these stickers
3. That person is ok with defacing private property (placing the sticker) in order to spread another big lie

This country is so fucked.
Imagine taking the time to type all that out, we're so fucked.
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bluezero
06/08/22 1:55:12 PM
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DeadorDead8 posted...
Imagine taking the time to type all that out, we're so fucked.
You're right, I should just sit back and let my country be destroyed by dicks.

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SwayM
06/08/22 1:58:05 PM
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Conspiracy theory I just came up with in this very moment: do you think Big Oil is Republican and purposely raises prices during a Democratic presidency for no other reasons than greed and petty politics.

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armandro
06/08/22 1:59:07 PM
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everyone saying it isn't bidens fault probably doesn't pump gas

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Will_VIIII
06/08/22 2:00:04 PM
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armandro posted...
everyone saying it isn't bidens fault probably doesn't pump gas


Will_VIIII posted...
People who blame Biden for current gas prices are far too stupid to have a discussion with, and far too stupid to bother correcting.


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RareSpiderman
06/08/22 2:01:30 PM
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Yes, cal the voters stupid for being angry about high gas prices. It worked for Jimmy Carter.
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Will_VIIII
06/08/22 2:02:19 PM
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RareSpiderman posted...
Yes, cal the voters stupid for being angry about high gas prices. It worked for Jimmy Carter.
It's not my fault they're lacking critical and basic thinking skills.

Those idiots were never going to vote for Biden anyway so who cares.

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armandro
06/08/22 2:10:04 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/8/AAOe62AADUV-.jpg

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Jiek_Fafn
06/08/22 2:10:38 PM
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I dont understand why it's not his fault. I've read countless stickers implying that it is. Where are all the stickers saying it's something else? I bet none of you can even cite one sticker proving it's not Biden's fault.

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Robot2600
06/08/22 2:13:11 PM
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im pretty sure bOtH sIdEs

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CADE FOSTER
06/08/22 2:13:37 PM
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literally tried to cap gas prices and gouging republicans said fuck you
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Bleuets
06/08/22 2:15:33 PM
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Biden hasnt done shit to help the situation. You bet your ass Ill blame him.
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Halo478
06/08/22 2:16:28 PM
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lol keep licking the gop boots you know thats a lie

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Bleuets
06/08/22 2:17:32 PM
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Halo478 posted...
lol keep licking the gop boots you know thats a lie

You mean Bidens boots
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Halo478
06/08/22 2:18:35 PM
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Bleuets posted...
You mean Bidens boots
Trumps boots they taste good or nah

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Bleuets
06/08/22 2:19:19 PM
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You tell me about Bidens first.
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Will_VIIII
06/08/22 2:19:49 PM
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Bleuets posted...
Biden hasnt done shit to help the situation. You bet your ass Ill blame him.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/7/7/AAADpjAADUWR.jpg

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