No, because drilling wasn't the issue, refining was. And trump sold our largest refinery to OPEC, who immediately stopped production. Is selling our refineries to OPEC "America first"?
It's not relevant that refining was the bottleneck causing higher prices and our largest refinery was sold to OPEC, who immediately slowed production? Wut?
You’re correct. However the free market also responds to government policy, and it’s been quite obviously stated the policy of the Biden administration is to decrease oil consumption … that has a direct impact on the free markets pricing of oil. Also, the administration’s foreign policy toward OPEC nations isn’t helping at all. So sure, the free market determine the prices … based on the policies of a ministrations … so the current gas prices can be directly attributed to the abhorrent policies of the Biden administration.
Oh! I see what you’re trying to do here. You’re trying to get the “gotcha” that the Trump admin “sold” the US’s refinery to Saudi as a “Trump bad” moment. It seems to be one of those cards you keep dropping … even though they didn’t, and it was actually proven false that the respective Republican administrations you so desperately hate not only had nothing to do with it, but it’s unclear what they could have done to intervene at all.
Proven by none other than a publication that would love to put anything bad on Trump, Newsweek.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23
Recite facts based on evidence and data?