Steve Kelley for August 09, 2023

For some reason, you are not welcomed in tRump land.

Trump’s friends the Saudis cut back on production, raising prices.

Try driving in Europe or anywhere else in the world bar the OPEC countries. That Biden’s reach sure extends.

You should talk to OPEC and the oil companies that decide the prices. neither are owned by the US government and all the drilling in the world can make them change the price of they don’t want to. Not buying their products will. case in point: Covid. Nobody was driving and the prices fell like a rock.

70 is cheap try going anywhere else it double the price

Didn’t she just make more than a billion dollars in less than 2-weeks? Complain, complain complain!

You are right, Barbie. Joe has done everything in his power to tie one hand behind the back of big oil companies and hence, the high price of gas. For that and other reasons, vote Republican next year. Your life will improve immensely.

Barbie could never imagine the horrors of Republican Fascistland.

Want someone to blame ? Try looking at the oil brokers lined up between here and the oil fields buying and selling the same tanker of oil over and over taking a cut each time !

Barbie isn’t driving an EV? Shame.

Consumer credit card debt topped a record high $1 trillion recently, 37% of workers have taken out a loan, early withdrawal or hardship withdrawal from their retirement accounts. More and more young people are staying at home with their parents because they cannot afford a home or rent. And yes, a lot of people have a hard time affording to fill up their cars. Welcome to Bidenland.

It’s true; the all powerful, omnipotent, evil god-like Biden, who is also a senile and helpless old man being controlled by Obama and Soros at the same time, is causing all this.

Where do conservatives get their attitude that they have a God-given right to cheap gasoline?

Kelley has strange fantasies.

Kelly get a Lincoln SUV. Seventy bucks might get you to the next gas station.

There are no liquids in Barbieland. Kelley must have fallen have fallen asleep in the movie…

Old Kelley, wearing the blinders the RW has put on him to stay laser focused on their agenda.

Ask Trump’s buddies the Saudies

SKelley is a liar. He thinks you are stupid. Or he’s stupid and just doesn’t know better.

Yesterday here in my corner of Bidenland gas was $3.09 I have a 16 gallon tank so I’ll go with that.

Bidenland, USA – $3.09 × 16 = $49.44

More than I like, yes, but not $70, either.

How about things OUTSIDE of Bidenland?

London, England – $5.79 × 16 = $92.64

Frankfort, Germany – $5.57 × 16 = $89.12

Paris, France – $5.54 × 16 = $88.64

Lisbon, Portugal – $5.35 × 16 = $85.60

From what I can see gas prices are MUCH better here in Bidenland, thank you very much.

March of 2012 with Trump at President gas was $3.97 a gallon. What’s that about Bidenland.

Gas prices go down – It’s the magic of the Market!

Gas prices go up – It’s all [insert current Democratic President’s name here]’s fault!

FJB

I never realized that Hunter Biden’s laptop had such power.

Had she taken Pres.Biden’s advice and gotten an EV, she’d be paying $12 for her car’s energy. Instead, Barbie proves to be just as dimwitted as her Repub friends.

Either Biden is an evil genius controlling the global petroleum prices, or he’s a bumbling idiot who doesn’t know what day it is. You can’t have it both ways, Trumpers, so which is it?

Europe has higher GAS tax [and higher every other kind of tax.] California mimics them, so you can see what living in “A Socialist’s Paradise” is like by visiting California. You’ll should also count the number of moving vans heading OUT of the top homeless and crime-ridden state!

Barbie’s car has no engine, it is powered by muscle.

So.. take your little pink car to any of the Middle East countries, evidently gas is cheaper there.

I got gas for $1.99. Unfortunately, it was at Taco Bell.

Right wing men still kicking against a movie for little girls.

The Saudis caused the world-wide inflation with their increase in price back in February of 2021. It took a while and a lot of effort to get the price back down some, and inflation in control, but Biden did that. Now the Saudis raised prices again last month. U.S. oil refused to help then or now, citing "‘world market pricing’. Biden should bring back the ‘windfall profit tax’ from the 1970s. That might get big oil to serve the Nation they benefit so much from.

I’ll take Bidenland any day over fascist Trumpland.

Where things get revealing is when you actually get to see Robbie slowly driving the Corvette from behind rolling down that pink highway, with no tailpipes installed. In one of the pictures of Robbie posing from the driver’s seat on the movie set, you might notice something odd on the side panel near the front fender. Normally, you wouldn’t find anything there, but Barbie’s Corvette has a Chevrolet logo decorating the panel. If you look closely, you’ll realize that the Chevrolet letters “E” and “V” are blue, while the rest of the logo remains silver. This is a hint that the Barbie Corvette is an all-electric vehicle

Do the Republicans ever complain about the giga-profits made by the fossil fuel industry?

Well of course not, price gouging is just good old capitalism!

First quarter results for a few of the robber barons.

https://www.statista.com/chart/27887/big-oil-sees-profits-increase/

numbers for 2022:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/big-oil-profits-reached-record-high-levels-in-2022/

And for the second quarter, they are reporting much smaller profits… I mean Exxon only made $7.9 Billion instead of $11.4 Billion

The poor babies…

It fascinates me that MAGA-World insists the Biden, and Biden alone, is responsible for global inflation, including energy inflation. Apparently they were all absent is sixth grade social studies on the day supply & demand was covered.

So SKelley supports electric powered autos then!

Let me repeat, oil is traded on the world market. If Saudi Arabia cuts oil production, the price increases across the globe. Saudi Arabia hasn’t increased production since your messiah trump begged them to cut production. The USA is producing the same amount of oil in 2023 as was being produced in 2019. Consumption has also stayed the same.

I guess there is only one solution that these right-wingers will accept. Government mandated price controls on gasoline.

Or you could pay $10 for an electric fill up with a thousand mile range in “Sandersland”.

Gosh Steve, do you think this might have something to with it???

Oil company profits…

2021 2022 Company

$23.0B $59.1B ExxonMobil

$19.3B $39.9B Shell

$15.6B $36.5B Chevron

$18.1B $36.2B TotalEnergies

Source : https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/big-oil-profits-reached-record-high-levels-in-2022/

Buy an electric that you can afford

So, get an electric car!

Adjusted for inflation, gas is the same as it was in 2010. Shaddap.

In the words of Bugs Bunny: ’What a maroon!" heh heh.

I am still waiting for one person, ANY person, to factually explain to me how Biden, and only Biden, caused ALL energy prices, including coal (!), to go up coming out of the pandemic, during the war in Ukraine, and with OPEC cutting production. I will patiently wait. 11,000 unused oil drilling leases in the U.S.

A fuel-efficient, hybrid or electric vehicle would solve that problem.