Frustrated drivers at gas stations stick it to Biden with ‘I did that!’ decals

HARK! said:

So neither closing down pipelines, nor jacking up the cost for drilling, nor releasing Federal oil reserves, will have any effect on gas prices?

Where did you study economics? I'd like to review your study materials.

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Pipelines between Canada and not-USA -- so what?

Don't remember anything about higher costs for drilling. i do recall some auctions for new drilling leases being canceled. It takes a long time to develop those new resources. So, no impact there (at least not yet).

Releasing the oil reserve? A drop in the bucket. Minimal impact.

Do political actions by Congress and the President have long term impacts, sure, just like the do for the overall economy.

If you want to find the politician that is most affecting the price of oil look to a fellow named "MBS". He apparently doesn't like being called out for human rights abuses and has throttled oil production.

HARK! said:

Some do. Others can afford trucks. I find it to be insensitive to call the working poor fools; as they try to scratch by with the rising costs of doing business.

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Blaming gas prices on presidents is hardly a qualification for MENSA....

Fact check: Is Biden to blame for high gas prices? - CNNPolitics

"At this point, there is no plausible connection between Biden becoming president and the increasing gasoline prices," Severin Borenstein, a professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley said."


"Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, a website that tracks the price of gas, also suggested the rising gas prices are due to a recent increase in demand following the decrease caused by the pandemic, not any policy changes by the President.
"This is not a political issue. It's more of a Covid-19 challenge simply because of how Covid-19 decimated fuel demand last year,"

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HARK! said:

LOL! Why would I trust CNN for a fact check; when I can't trust them to get their facts straight?

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Brilliant refutation of the arguments presented. I see no more reason to argue with you.

SeventhFisherofMen said:

because most likely the person who is calling it childish is mad because they voted that administration into office.

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I called it childish because it is childish. It displays a simplistic, at best nonexistent at worst, understanding of economics and the powers of the presidency to influence the price of oil and therefore gasoline. Content aside it is also childish to deface others property.

While I cast my vote against Trump I cannot be said to have helped put Biden in office or evict Trump from it as due to my state rather than I having a say in who becomes president my vote was discarded.

SeventhFisherofMen said:

The problem as you know is that people shouldn't take it personally when the person they voted for doesn't live up to what they had hoped, afterall it's not like it's they themselves who have failed but rather the administration. People need to see it's ok to admit they were wrong in who they voted into office, admitting mistakes is actually a Christian practice we do it all the time to God when we realize we've messed up.

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I do not think I was wrong to vote the way that I did. It was the less awful of the options I was presented with.

HARK! said:

This statement is more puzzling than a MENSA pre-test.

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Nevertheless, I have faith in your ability to figure it out.

HARK! said:

Pipeline from Canada to U.S..

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The Keystone pipeline is for exporting Canadian oil through the US to other places. The pipeline across the upper Michigan caries Canadian oil to other parts of Canada.

HARK! said:

It's front page news. You might want to look into it.

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Maybe I don't live in oil drilling country. (Or don't read newspapers.) I still don't know what you speak of.

HARK! said:

So all of those kudos to Obama, for doing just that, was just Liberal propaganda?

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It was pointless then and it is pointless now. I'm not in charge of the "Liberal propaganda".

HARK! said:

It appears that you are presenting a fallacious attribution of the love of physical work and the outdoors, to lack of intellect; but I don't want to jump to conclusions.

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Perhaps you should read the part where I said "Blaming gas prices on presidents is hardly a qualification for MENSA," and you won't have to jump to conclusions?

HARK! said:

Is this Senator misinformed; or is this all for theater?

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Theater.

HARK! said:

So this is nothing more than a ruse to trick the public into thinking that he doing something in the face of this crisis?

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It's not a crisis and yes.

HARK! said:

So this is nothing more than a ruse to trick the public into thinking that he doing something in the face of this crisis?

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Same as it ever was. (Re: strategic oil reserve)

[Edit: $3 gas isn't a "crisis". It's been that high before and will be so again after it falls in the near term.]

HARK! said:

Interior report calls on Biden to raise costs of oil and gas drilling on federal land

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"Calls on"? That's one of those future tenses, isn't it? Doesn't that mean it hasn't happened yet?

[Plus: If gas and oil companies are making lots of coin drilling on Federal lands, maybe they should return more to the Treasury.]