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Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
2. Disgusting.
Wed May 2, 2018, 03:55 PM
May 2018

New pipelines criss crossing the country, endangering water aquifers...and the price is going up up up. Prepare for the recession (really minor depressions) bc, the gas prices signal it. The food prices from the last recession never went down. Just how far do commercial interests think Americans can stretch a dollar? Here we go again.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
4. Hey, it's just the moron
Wed May 2, 2018, 04:25 PM
May 2018

doing what he was installed to do. From the kook brothers to vlad to the saudis and their glowing orb, all benefit from running up the price of oil.

Hope all the idiots who voted for him thinking they were gonna benefit get the connection.

Too bad the rest of us have to suffer.

$4++/gallon on the way!


duforsure

(11,885 posts)
6. Thank trump
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:42 PM
May 2018

He's trying to help Putin because they wouldn't let him lift the sanctions for him. Oil is what they're economy is based on. Watch drug prices and insurance to skyrocket also, and soon maybe food goods.

Rebl2

(13,485 posts)
9. Well there
Wed May 2, 2018, 06:32 PM
May 2018

Goes any bonus or tax cut you got. It will go to paying higher gas prices. Seems to me prices have gradually gone up under Trump.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
11. Bingo - Correcto
Wed May 2, 2018, 07:43 PM
May 2018

Oil/energy wants more profits and lobby for them and the powers-to-be and the powers-that-are want more squeezed out of the middle class.

But how? Can't just raise prices, the screams of outrage and political fall-out to much to risk.

What to do? What to do?

Hey, give everyone in U.S. a bonus or tax cut - makes the politicians look good . The crumbs are there for them to sop up.

But let's raise the prices on gas/energy and take those few dollars out of their pockets and put it into ours.

Aren't they clever little devils.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
12. It took a Republican to do this. The GOP is fueled by fossil fuels and fossils.
Wed May 2, 2018, 08:44 PM
May 2018

Of course it's at a high. They make more money that way. But then, of course, they'll say that it's going to spike to $6/gal under Obama and it hit new lows.

MichMan

(11,901 posts)
14. Except gas prices are now at the highest since 2014
Wed May 2, 2018, 11:18 PM
May 2018

I would be careful about blaming all this on Trump.

It was over $4 a gallon here in 2014. I was driving 100 plus miles a day to go to work and was spending $500 a month back then.

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