To be fair, most conservatives since forever have believed that the president really does have some sort of magic oil price controller. That’s why they bought so many of those, “I did that!” stickers of Biden and stuck them to gas pumps everywhere.
The president doesn’t have a magical power to reduce gas prices but I do believe Trump has proven that a president does have the power to make them go up. Drastically.
Policies can make oil prices go down or up. Offer more alternatives, i.e. renewables, electric vehicles, WFH. Gas prices go down. Start a war that bottlenecks 20% of the world’s oil supply? Prices go up
To be fair, most conservatives since forever have believed that the president really does have some sort of magic oil price controller. That’s why they bought so many of those, “I did that!” stickers of Biden and stuck them to gas pumps everywhere.
The president doesn’t have a magical power to reduce gas prices but I do believe Trump has proven that a president does have the power to make them go up. Drastically.
Policies can make oil prices go down or up. Offer more alternatives, i.e. renewables, electric vehicles, WFH. Gas prices go down. Start a war that bottlenecks 20% of the world’s oil supply? Prices go up
There is an asymmetry of any control any of us has over anything.
The capacity anyone has to make anything worse far exceeds our ability to make things better.
Destruction is inherently easy. I think that’s why weak people are drawn to it.