This needs to be repeated ad infinitum:

[Novara]

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My idiot co-worker blamed Biden for gas prices.

[AntivaxHunters]

1. Who are the 4 Dems who joined GOP in voting no?

Here they are.

[LoisB]

2. These:

four Democrats, Reps. Kathleen Rice of New York, Stephanie Murphy of Florida, Jared Golden of Maine and Lizzie Fletcher of Texas joining all the Republicans in voting no.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

4. Per The Hill

Reps. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas), Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) broke from the rest of the Democratic caucus and voted against the measure.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3494554-the-four-democrats-who-bucked-party-and-voted-no-on-gas-price-gouging-bill/]

[TreasonousBastard]

9. I was surprised at Rice, but she's retiring. That makes me...

more curious why she voted against it.

[KS Toronado]

24. Firm believer in capitalism's supply & demand ?

[Farmer-Rick]

25. Supply and demand don't need capitalism to work

Supply and demand works just fine with or without Capitalism. Capitalism is only about using capital to make more capital.

We can still have regulations on out of control monopolistic corporations even with (gag) capitalism (gag). Not regulating capital is called Laissez-faire economics and it's what caused the Irish famine.

[elleng]

3. every single republican voted no!

[sarisataka]

5. So that's why

Gas jumped a quarter this morning...

[myohmy2]

6. I was talking...

...to my brother this morning...

...I paid $5.15 for regular unleaded last Thursday, today I paid $5.55 a gallon for the same gas...$.40 a gallon difference in less than a week...

...whether it's Joe's or Nancy's fault or not, we're going to get blamed, guaranteed...they're not solving our problems...

...if we look at what we didn't get, what we should have had, what we desperately need, November is not looking pretty...

...Joe needs to take the gloves off and hit harder but he's a capitalist, he said so...

...this is all there is folks...now Bernie

...

[towerbum]

7. thank the TDFG & jar-jar for cozzying up to OPEC , Haliburton ----

the rest of the oil gang ! like they say , ya ' can't fight city hall & big damn corporations ! Lawmaker's my ass !

[Bucky]

28. Who's Jar-Jar?

What does the D stand for?

[OMGWTF]

29. Jar-Jar is Jared Kushner and the "D" in TDFG stands for 'Defeated.'

[crickets]

8. Remind your coworker that Biden does not set those prices.

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Progressive Pro Investor (they do exist)
@SaneYossarian
Oil companies are admitting on earnings calls that they're intentionally keeping supply low to keep prices high. Refusing to drill & produce more oil to inflate prices. How is this not gouging? And why do we give them $25 billion in subsidies per year?
https://theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/27/inflation-corporate-america-increased-prices-profits
12:16 PM · May 22, 2022

From the Guardian article:

In earnings calls, executives detailed how even as demand and profits rose post-vaccine, they passed on most or all inflationary costs to customers via price increases, and some took the opportunity to add more on top. Margins – the share of sales converted into profits – also improved for the majority of the companies analyzed by the Guardian.

Economists who reviewed the data say it’s more evidence of a clear reality: Consumers are taking a financial hit as companies and shareholders profit or are largely shielded.

[867-5309.]

10. 76% of *Republicans* back a federal government ban on energy price gouging

[calimary]

11. TRUTH! And FACT-CHECKING!

Our job is to make sure this is spread and shared EVERYWHERE. And NONSTOP.

Especially since WE have the truth and the statistics and the facts on OUR side!

Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, and Repeat Some MORE.

[kimbutgar]

12. I filled my tank today 5.99 for the cheapest gas at Costco in south San Francisco

While I was filling my tank all I could think is the oil companies really want republicans back in power. They are gouging us to get the republicans to let them drill everywhere they want even on native lands!

I HATE OIL Companies and the stupid people who don’t get this is a political ploy to destroy the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party.

[Moostache]

15. Reality Bites

Not just a Gen-X 90's movie any more...

Now wrap our heads around the fact that the lynchpin grease of the gears of globalism REQUIRE ever increasing amount of energy (inputs from sun up to sun down).

Infinite Growth inside a Finite System. Its also Infinite Graft, but no one is going o save us.

[dchill]

19. You got it!

[OMGWTF]

30. If you can, get an electric car. I drive a 2012 Chevy Volt that's awesome.

It has a small gas engine that powers a generator that charges the battery when it gets low, so I don't need to worry about being stranded away from an electrical outlet. I drove a Porsche for years and this car is as much fun to drive.

[caraher]

13. Maybe this can help your idiot co-worker

[paleotn]

14. Your coworker needs to remember market economics.....

I thought those guys loved the "free market". Well, until it bites them in the ass I suppose.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. A friend blamed Biden to me as well.

I told him it's Trump's fault because he passed resolution 420-714 that allows the president to set fuel prices. I told him all Biden has to do is get up in the morning and call all the gas stations with the price of the day. "Thank Trump."

He called bullshit on me, but I remained steadfast, just like he was with his BS.
"No, it's true!".

[BigmanPigman]

17. James Carville was just on CNN discussing this shit.

[dchill]

18. That's what idiot co-workers are for!

[Orrex]

20. KKKonservatives love to bleat about how "weak" "Sleepy Joe" is, but...

somehow he's also so mighty that he can control inflation and gas prices around the world.

[Walleye]

21. The oil companies have successfully shifted the blame to environmentalism.Of course they price gouge

[Rhiannon12866]

22. Twitter reply:

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[Justice matters.]

23. Dems running for Office in November BETTER advertize THIS...

Use the results of that vote in campaign ADs over and over.

[housecat]

26. Oil pollutes the ocean, air, and minds. Dictators and republicans live on oil

[Marcuse]

27. Not your grandfather's GOP.

[GoodRaisin]

31. Did you ask your co-worker how?

The “R” voting ignoramuses automatically blame Biden for everything. When you ask them how, they can’t explain why they are saying it. I always love the expression on their face when they are forced to think about what is coming out of their ignorant mouths.

[Lonestarblue]

32. It's called predatory capitalism in the US.

The US gas industry is producing fewer than 12 million barrels per day—8% less than in 2019. They have refused to ramp up production because they’re making exorbitant profits from the Russian sanctions and the refusal of MBS to expand output. CEO and top management bonuses are tied to profits. I imagine they will milk this situation until the economy gets forced into a recession. They’re rich enough to not be bothered by a recession.

Edited to add: I just checked historical data, and in 2019/the US was producing over 13 million barrels per day. Today it’s 11.6 million. The ability to produce that 13+ million barrels per day is still there. The willingness is not. We are being held hostage by utter greed.

[eggplant]

33. NY dropped about fifteen cents per gallon from gas tax yesterday.

[Number9Dream]

34. So what does this mean? Will we nail them for price gouging? 217 to 207

[Cozmo]

35. Your co-worker believes this because MSM is guilty of telling the public this

God knows we can't blame the fair minded oil and gas industry for price gouging. It's so easy for these greedy bastards to scape-goat Biden. It scares me to death to think of how many non thinking idiots inhabit our country. SHEEP!