Thom Hartmann has a prediction about gas prices vis a vis the coming election.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-saudi-and-putin-scheme-for-screwing-1e4
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@InUnfunky Even if they pull oil from reserves or increase amount pumped it might not help as Saudi's have been buying up US oil refining capacity left and right. Last time we saw high prices several refineries were shut down for BS reasons which added to games Russia and the Saudis were playing with pricing.
Counterpoint: Hartmann is a 9/11 "Truther" whose record as an oracle is not exactly stellar.
@mcfate @InUnfunky The comment about refinery capacity being bought isn't from that article but many articles over time. Its makes this scenario more of a vulnerability than it otherwise would be. Doesn't speak to validity of a plot one way or the other, but I do think Russia , Saudi's and Iran will do what they can to interfere in our elections.
If they make him annoyed enough, Biden can nationalize those refineries as being "critical defense resources".
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Harry Truman seized the steel industry, after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
Voting was always the "only way forward". There's literally nothing to stop Trump from running from solitary confinement.
Eugene Debs ran from prison.
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that was my thought when gas went back up a dime a couple of weeks ago.