Without even leaving this page of this thread, "The only things i believe
Trump did wrong was tweeting stupid shit and hiring Fauci."
Increases in fuel prices are driven by increased demand and lack of supply, which is the inverse of why they dropped during 2020 - a sudden decrease in demand resulting in excess supply. Refiners halted production during 2020 since fuel wasn't being used. Production doesn't respond instantaneously; the supply chain has a lag.
Gas prices are the highest they've been in seven years. Demand is up, domestic supply was hit by a hurricane — and then there's overseas production.
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Fuel prices increased about $0.60 from their 2020 low through the remainder of Trump's term. Why was that? They've risen about a $1 since then. Looking back further, they increased about $0.60 from when Trump took office in 2017 to when they peaked during his term. During Obama's second term prices were even lower than the were at the lowest during Trump's term. How do you explain that?
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The Keystone XL pipeline was still years away from being operational. The land leases may have never become operational. Both were or would have been long-term projects and would have had no bearing on short-term petroleum supplies or prices. The Keystone XL pipeline wouldn't have even sold product to the domestic market.
The President doesn't have some lever at his desk to control the amount of crude produced or fuel refined, nor does the President have have a dial to change what the prices of each will be. You're blaming or crediting the President when you should be directing both toward the private sector.
To believe otherwise exhibits ignorance of how the petroleum industry works.
How does one kill jobs that don't exist? TC Energry, the company that owned the project even claimed its shuttering only affected current 1,000 jobs. The estimated jobs also would have been only 8,000, but those jobs would have been temporary and held by transient contractors, not permanently by guys like Joe Smith who lives in Cottonwood, SD with his wife and three kids. The jobs would have come and gone as the pipeline moved toward Nebraska.
Poll numbers? Sure, they're abysmal, but they're still not as low as the bar set by his predecessor. Trump's poll numbers were fake you say? Odd, considering they're using the same methodology today as they were during his term.
Inflation? Can you expound upon which specific Presidential policies have caused that? Can you explain what causes inflation?
Afghanistan? Yeah, that was a poorly executed debacle. Don't let yourself think Trump would have done any better; remember the agreement negotiated with the Taliban was done by his State Department and had an even earlier time-table for execution.
Drugs? Are you aware that the majority of drugs are trafficked through the designated ports of entry (not between them) and through the postal service? A lot more drugs can be shipped in a truck (or an airplane or on a boat, or through a tunnel) than on the back of a migrant. Interestingly, the Democrats called for increased spending for additional customs officers and scanning equipment to be located at those ports to improve the likelihood of detecting illicit drugs.
Cancer? You know diseases aren't cured by magic, right? It takes years of research and development activities to discover solutions. That little blue pill you take on Saturday nights didn't just randomly materialize on some desk at Pfizer one day. Biden wasn't the one who touted all sorts of ridiculous treatments for COVID.
Did you know that fuel prices were higher during Trump's term than they were during the last 1.5 years of Obama's? Were you asleep through how shelves were in 2020? Do you actually understand why energy prices are increasing?
Ok, dude. You're delusional. Keep on believing the "facts" you read in forums like this one and that come out of Q-fueled echo chambers.
Nonsense.
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don't need to win.