We walked through the darkness for 4 years under Biden/Obama. The light at the end of the tunnel was seen when Trump took office. It has take over a year to weed out just a portion of the DS that have opposed Trump at every turn and it is not over yet. We are in lean times now thanks to corrupt judges and people in Congress from both sides that oppose changing who has the power, the people or the politicians. Greed has also played a big roll in our suffering. Big Oil jacked up the gas prices in the US even though we import very little oil anymore. Food prices follow the cost of delivery. We suffer now with the hope for a brighter future for our children. I’ll never see it at my age and neither will Trump but for once in my life I have hope that America will return to it’s foundational truths.
We buy oil in competition with all other purchasers on the world market. But the bad spots are states (like Washington) that impose "green" tax surcharges. I heard recently that the national average price for gasoline was $ 4.50/gallon. Here in Washington, due to the "green" tax, the price is $ 6.50/gallon. But Trump counsels hope, on the strength of a huge market correction when the Strait of Hormuz is open (and when shippers arrange replacements for the risk insurance that Lloyd's of London cut off when this whole thing started). Lots of U.S. and Venezuelan oil entering the pipleline, but nothing happens all at once.
Oh, and another problem would be self-flagellation. California has driven all of its domestic refiners out of business by green regulation, and must now import its "boutique" legally-mandated recipe of gasoline from Barbados (or some other Caribbean island), requiring transit through the Panama Canal.
We walked through the darkness for 4 years under Biden/Obama. The light at the end of the tunnel was seen when Trump took office. It has take over a year to weed out just a portion of the DS that have opposed Trump at every turn and it is not over yet. We are in lean times now thanks to corrupt judges and people in Congress from both sides that oppose changing who has the power, the people or the politicians. Greed has also played a big roll in our suffering. Big Oil jacked up the gas prices in the US even though we import very little oil anymore. Food prices follow the cost of delivery. We suffer now with the hope for a brighter future for our children. I’ll never see it at my age and neither will Trump but for once in my life I have hope that America will return to it’s foundational truths.
We buy oil in competition with all other purchasers on the world market. But the bad spots are states (like Washington) that impose "green" tax surcharges. I heard recently that the national average price for gasoline was $ 4.50/gallon. Here in Washington, due to the "green" tax, the price is $ 6.50/gallon. But Trump counsels hope, on the strength of a huge market correction when the Strait of Hormuz is open (and when shippers arrange replacements for the risk insurance that Lloyd's of London cut off when this whole thing started). Lots of U.S. and Venezuelan oil entering the pipleline, but nothing happens all at once.
Oh, and another problem would be self-flagellation. California has driven all of its domestic refiners out of business by green regulation, and must now import its "boutique" legally-mandated recipe of gasoline from Barbados (or some other Caribbean island), requiring transit through the Panama Canal.