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Offline dutch508

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No, the president of the United States does not influence gas price increases

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/verify/national-verify/president-of-the-united-states-does-not-influence-gas-price-increases/536-ce195489-79b7-45ac-8eff-1a12001c04c1

Gas prices this Memorial Day weekend are expected to be the most expensive since 2014, AAA says.

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When asked if President Joe Biden is responsible for the higher gas prices across the country during this Memorial Day weekend, Jeanette McGee, AAA’s director of external communications, told VERIFY that the American Automobile Association is often asked how presidents and their decisions in office can impact gas prices.

“The bottom line is gas prices fluctuate no matter who's in the White House,” said McGee. “If you look at the past 16 years, prices were up and down no matter who was there.”

A graph from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that retail gas prices have fluctuated from 1994 to 2020, no matter who was in office.

More at link, incuding said graph. For those of you with strong stomachs, who like to confront maskholes on social media...

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Star Member doc03 (27,730 posts)

1. A friend of mine that owned a gas station

told me he got called 7 times one day to change his prices. He ended up with the same price at the end of the day as in the morning. On that very day oil executives were testifying in Congress that there was no price fixing in the oil industry.

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2. That's b/c Trump had the delusion that as POTUS, he could order OPEC to

"turn on the spigots" at his demand. Google the articles from 2016 and 2018.

MAGAts believe that Biden has the same magic power and he's just not going to use it.

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Star Member MyOwnPeace (12,728 posts)

6. ALWAYS .........

playing the BULLSHIT, no matter what the FACTS are.

PRESIDENT OBAMA saved our country from a serious depression.

He got a plan enacted in spite of Moscow Mitch's vow to make it a 1-term presidency. The plan he was able to get through worked Critics complained it wasn't 'enough' (hey, remember the Moscow Mitch thing?) and of course the Repubs claimed it wasn't enough/it didn't work/or it did work thanks to them!   

His 'Recovery Plan' saved the American auto industry.

Giant loans got them through the crisis and they now are striving again. one company, Ford Motor, did NOT take government loans ( loans that were paid off early by those that did!). President Biden went to Ford to promote his "Clean Energy Plan" - cut the use of fossil fuel by producing electric vehicles.

American product? - Yep! Good!!
Reduce pollution? - Yep! Good!!

RepubliQan response: He went to the only company that did NOT take "Obama's 'charity' loan - they did it the "American way" - without a "government hand-out" - if it is a "hand-out" that the RepubliQans did not support - ie: a 'tax cut' that would benefit the RepubliQans.

SUCH F**KING HYPOCRITS!!!!!!!

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9. I'm paying $4.12 a gallon right now

And it's not even peak summer yet. Jesus ****ing Christ...

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Funny how the primitives say the prez has no influence over gas prices during Obama and Biden, but during Bush and Trump they said quite the opposite.

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No, the president of the United States does not influence gas price increases

Ri-ight! Arbitrarily decreasing supply by shutting down a pipeline and stopping fracking on Federal land while demand is unchanged or increasing "does not influence gas price increases".


If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Ri-ight! Arbitrarily decreasing supply by shutting down a pipeline and stopping fracking on Federal land while demand is unchanged or increasing "does not influence gas price increases".




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