Steve Breen for October 10, 2022

Yes, oil companies are a form of legalized crime.

Maybe we’ll all feel better about it if we blame Biden? /s

Not that bad by Oregon standards, but I can remember it being 17 cents a gallon back in the day. But then again hamburgers were also that price at the HI-Fi drive in. I’m not sure what the minimum wage was, but I suspect it was lower that today.

That’s a dollar less than the prices on our local pumps. And yes, I’m sure Biden’s sad that the oil monopolies have used the announcement of a small future change in oil supply to shaft us across the board right now!

I remember seeing gas listed at more than $1/gal higher than that under Bush, and that was when salaries were noticeably lower.

“The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades” (Timbuk 3)

They could raise gas to $10 a gallon and I still won’t vote for fascist Republicans.

Funny how Trump Disciple cartoonists NEVER mention oil company profits.

And of course, they actually believe that gas prices are set by a “free market”.

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Trump Disciple analysis skills.

It’s happening everywhere, so it’s not Biden’s doing. The oil companies are trying to max their profits before we all bail and buy electric vehicles. :P

If that’s supposed to be a reflection in the glasses, he’s got it backwards.

The next time I see the President I will ask him to lower oil prices.

It has been the decision of oil companies to slow down drilling for new oil supplies within the U.S. Their decisions are based on wanting to work more with established fields to increase production rather than take on the uncertainty of finding new sources. Uncertainty over the effects of government policies on climate change are only a very small part of their decisions. At least 2 areas that the U.S. solicited bids on for drilling did not receive interests from oil companies. OPEC is cutting prodution. Russia is under embargo for exporting oil to the West. Please, folk, stop drinking the Fox kool aid, learn the facts and stop blaming the federal government.

High fuel prices are a constant warning we cannot continue to commit to fossil fuels.

Mister Breen where is your outrage at the industry that continues to refuse to lower its costs to cknsumers even though they have recorded historic profit levels while the rest of this nation and the world are enduring a global recession? Where is your telling people the fact that gas prices in the USA are and have been much lower than in much of the rest of the world including virtually all of the major industrialized nations and have been all along? And where is your outrage that those companies that have made historically record profits continue to get huge amounts of our and your tax dollars in federal handouts each year and that outrage should have gone back many years? Gosh do the facts hurt you so much that you cannot bring yourself to even mention them ever? Shall we wait while you discuss the facts about steering this nation and the world away from fossil fuel dependency or will you stick your head in the sand about that as well while you blame people who under our laws are limited about what they can do to change industries. And will you please speak up about how Republicans and Conservatives have stonewalled and obstructed any and all efforts to change any of that? Or will these just be more questions and issues about which you regularly ignore the facts? Mister Breen? Are you in there Mister Breen? Hello?

When gas prices were astronomical in the seventies, there were gas lines and it was obvious the high prices were due to a short supply. There are no gas lines, no evident shortage in supply…. simply the oil companies taking advantage of a political situation to gouge customers. I’ll believe their whining when I see people lined up for limited supplies.

Where I live—CA— those prices would be BARGAINS. Some people don’t know how good they had it by comparison.

Someone should ask why Jared got so much money from the Saudis.

Exactly what executive action could account for the high oil prices? Correct: none.

But I tell you what WOULD mitigate those high gas prices — getting an economical car. I drive a simply hybrid that cost no more than a normal sedan. I get on average 56 MPG. Funny thing is, I took a 1,000 mile trip this week and was passed right and left on the highway by huge pickup trucks and SUVs doing at least 80-85 MPH. Moreover, studies have shown that fewer than 30% of those pickup drivers actually use the bed for anything at all — it’s just a show of their supposed manliness. Virtually all of those vehicles get horrible mileage, and yet they whine incessantly about fuel prices. Hey, if you choose a gas guzzler for show, I have no sympathy.

Hey, is that Chicago I hear playing in the background? “Only the beginning…”

I don’t think that OPEC making production changes a month before the mid-term elections is coincidental and it would favor Republicans who are in very tight races….. and would be favorable for Russia as well. It may pressure the EU and the British Commonwealth to rethink their current positions as winter returns to the northern hemisphere……IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY & POWER FOR THE OIL PRODUCERS.

Hurrican Ian was Biden’s fault too. He should have taken Rump’s magic Sharpie. I guess it was sent to Mar-A-Lardo with the rest of the stolen, Top Secret, classified documents.

Of course, noone noticed when gas prices were down bellow $3/gallon. I, for one, think it’s good for gasoline to go up as it will push most folks into their first EV. From one who made the jump in ‘18, once you’ve gone the EV route, you’ll never go back.

Corporate profits are higher than inflation.

Is this a blame Biden on the gas prices ’toon? WHY?

America’s favorite pastime: assigning blame… deserved or not.

In Canada the Trudeau haters call it “Justinflation” which to an intelligent person is a compliment for the PM considering Canada had the third lowest inflation rate in the developed world at that time. Biden is being blamed for TFG’s poor performance against Covid, Trump’s tariffs, the war started by Trump’s idol Putin and the significant storms, fires and droughts hitting the USA, which may have been made worse by the Republicans denial of climate change.

Yep, and breeny and the rest of the dunderheads are fixating on dat.

Tell the Republicans to vote for the bill to stop oil companies from price-gouging.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/10/03/new-analysis-big-oil-continues-price-gouging-consumers-after-oil-prices-drop

It’s refreshing to see so many well-written and instructive slapdowns of Breen.

Has any Republican running for office offered a solution to high gas prices? Besides the usual lowering of taxes for the rich? Calls to expand drilling and oil exploration won’t do anything for anyone for at least a few years, even if such actions were to be taken.

It’s more like this: https://assets.amuniversal.com/9c5fdb102c7a013bc9de005056a9545d

Numbers that haunt him!

Yes, gas prices went up. I’m amazed that “small government conservatives” love to blame the government for that when they’re not in charge of it.