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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh, weird.  Republicans insisted to us that gas would be $7 a gallon right now.  They shouted it from the roof tops.  They made little "I did that" stickers with Joe Biden and slapped them on gas pumps everywhere.

But gas is lower now than it was last year. [/quote]

I will remind you that back when that prediction was made, gas did hit over $7/gal in locations around the US.  You have a very short memory.

Republicans and Trump also wanted to top off the SPR back when oil was $20/barrel, but Democrats wouldn't allow it because they said it was a "bail out for Big Oil."  What losers the Democrats are.  And, we all lose as a result.  [/quote]

My memory is just fine, but I do have is zero tolerance for fiction and bullshit.  You are lying your ass off.

First, the overwhelming majority of America never even came close to hitting gas prices anywhere near $7 a gallon.   If you want to claim someplace did, that's not data, that's an outlier and anomalous anecdote, and you are engaging in fallacious cherrypicking.

Second, oil was $20 a barrel for barely one week in April 2020 when the oil market collapsed due to lack of demand because we were in the height of the pandemic.  And it caught Trump and Republicans by surprise.  They didn't have a coherent or actionable plan to top off the SPR.  And it caught the oil industry by surprise as well, and they had zero interest in losing buckets of money selling to the SPR for $20 a gallon.   Your phony claim that they tried to make it happen but were "shot down by Dems who said it was a bail out for big oil" is complete fiction.[/quote]

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