re: Trump claims Americans are being gouged at the pumps

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Quick jumps, very slow falls, milking mucho profit along the way -- In part because we're just glad it's not as high as it was.

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You get a different answer from the O&G baws everytime something happens with gas.

Iran war starts. Gas goes up real quick. O&G baws: You just don't understand that they are having to plan ahead on the gas they are going to be buying now and it will be way up and they have to account for that.

Barrels fall to low prices, O&G baws: You just don't understand, when they bought the gas that is in the tanks it was at a much higher price.

Three weeks later, O&G baws: You just don't understand, when they bought the gas that is in the tanks it was at a much higher price and you also have to account for risk and demand.

O&G baws are different than gas station owners. Go ask your questions regarding gasoline prices to Buc-ee’s or QuickTrip franchise owners. Or the dude down the road from you running the local “Shell” gas station. They’re the ones setting prices at the pumps.

He has to talk to the people like this and the oil guys understand why.

Both they and he can’t afford for him to appear like he doesn’t care or the communists will seize on it.

If anyone thinks its bad lets check out life in Germany for the soccer players who now get to go back home after losing last night:


Le ?unker
@LeBunkerBtc

Translated

You're called Hans, you're 31 years old, and you're coming out of the World Cup match.

Germany just got humiliated by Paraguay (there are more Germans on their team than on yours).

The next day at 6:45 a.m., you're back at work, taxed at 60% to fund the energy transition, gender changes, and social benefits handed out by your government to Eritrean migrants who declare themselves gay just to check the boxes.

This summer, you're spending it under 38 degrees without AC because your ecologist party labeled it a weapon of mass destruction.

At the supermarket, the bratwurst—your favorite sausages—have been replaced by subsidized gray soy KlimaFleisch, paid for by your taxes to save the penguins.

In your open-space office at 27 degrees, you declared yourself "diverse" because that's become the only way to hope for a promotion with affirmative action and DEI.

Hot water costs 18 cents per liter since Russian gas got cut off; you shower in exactly 3 minutes, stopwatch in hand, and your landlady sends you registered letters because your usage exceeds the federal energy threshold. You cry under the lukewarm water.

At 16, you were protesting nuclear power plants, and you went and elected Angela Merkel, who shut them down. Now Russian gas is cut off, your combustion engine industry is tanking, and electricity is a luxury: you're even thinking about burning your IKEA furniture to stay warm this winter.

Meanwhile, your distant cousin Friedrich in Paraguay pays 0% taxes, fires up his Ford V8 5-liter pickup, and gets ready to celebrate the victory around an asado while drinking German beer.

It's gonna be a shitty summer, Hans, and that's just the beginning.