Still think the President doesn't affect gas prices???

@Dainbramadge gas has been going up in canada before Ukraine. How did Joe Biden do that?

@iamonfire696 don't you get it?! It's done by our God, THE INVISIBLE HAND. ALL HAIL TO HIM, MAY HIS GOLDEN FLUIDS TRICKLE DOWN!

@Roadsterrider Probably single payer medicare expansion. Pay for it by taking 5-7% of peoples income to fund it.

@independentone 5 to 7%, I am sure you mean another 5 to 7%. There are about 64 million people on Medicare, Medicare costs the US government $776 billion, to cover 330 million people under Medicare the total cost would be roughly 5 times $776 billion. That comes out to be $3.9 trillion. The total revenue of the government in 2020 was $3.4 trillion, so to cover everyone with Medicare, it would take every cent going into the government coffers and we would still have to come up with another $500 billion to cover the cost of the program. That also leaves nothing for infrastructure, nothing for defense, nothing for welfare programs, unless taxes on working people were doubled at least. Talk to anyone in the medical professions, ask why doctors don't like taking Medicare patients. Medicare isn't very good insurance, if you don't also get a part B plan you are screwed if any major health issues come up. To increase taxes in this country would drive inflation through the roof. Right now, Medicare is 3%, half paid by the employee and half paid by the employer. Everyone who works pays this tax, 3% wouldn't cut it if 250 million people were added to the rolls.

@Roadsterrider The rest of the civilized world seems to make it work for them though. The US has the most expensive health care in the world, and one of the worst in terms of care in the world.

@Northwest I wish I were more like you and believed the gas hike to be pure coincidence.

@Dainbramadge [quote]I wish I were more like you and believed the gas hike to be pure coincidence.[/quote]

This is not a trick. I simply used YOUR OWN WORDS. So, make up your mind.

@Spoiledbrat There are three main factors that commodities traders look at when developing the bids that influence oil prices. These are the current supply, future supply, and expected demand.
The pipeline deal was all about future supply among a few others.

@Dainbramadge So, did shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought 800,000 barrels a day from Canada impact the futures market? It seems to me that futures in oil would have been lower expecting the market to have an additional 800k barrels of oil in the market shortly. Biden shut it down on day one in office. Day 2 saw increases in oil prices. "Joe did that."

@Roadsterrider Yeah that was what I was trying to show here with the two things I quoted.
The president makes life hard on oil and Stock holders then make life hard on everyone else.

@FreestyleArt For the people that think The Joe you know had nothing to do with it, I have made a few searches for them. :-)

@Lostpoet Yup.
This carbon pricing policy statement, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in April 2021, is a blanket endorsement of top-down policies that have been demonstrated to be costly, ineffective, regressive, and consistently rejected by the American people.

https://americansforprosperity.org/biden-policies-raising-gas-prices/

@Barny52 https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/reasons-for-uk-gas-price-increase
That's what's wrong in the U.K.

@LordShadowfire I did in another comment.