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Yellen: ‘Virtually impossible for us to insulate ourselves’ from soaring gas prices
The hill ^ | 06/07/2022 | Tobias Burns

Posted on 06/07/2022 12:28:31 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said American consumers will be at the mercy of oil companies this summer, as crude oil is expected to reach $160 a barrel, according to an analysis released Monday by Goldman Sachs.

Speaking to the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, Yellen took heat from both Republicans and Democrats for inflation that’s near 40-year highs, with gasoline prices up almost 50 percent over the last year.

In May, a gallon of gas cost more than $4.50, according to a national average compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It’s now at $4.86 a gallon, up 25 cents in just one week.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drillbabydrill; gas; prices; virtually; yellen; yellencorrupt; yellenlies
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To: Dogbert41

that’s about it- biden takes over and immediately gas prices soar- AFTER he shuts down pipeline, and goes after drilling-

They know darn well that we know that Trump could get us energy independent again in no time, and gas prices woudl come down-

they also know that we know that they are lyign through their teeth-


21 posted on 06/07/2022 12:39:02 PM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She gets 200K yearly of our money for making stupid pronouncements and stupider decisions.


22 posted on 06/07/2022 12:39:20 PM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And we’re being governed by these idiots?


24 posted on 06/07/2022 12:40:15 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liar!!!


25 posted on 06/07/2022 12:40:17 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just wait until these high fuel prices start causing actual food shortages by this fall. That’s when all heck breaks loose.


26 posted on 06/07/2022 12:40:33 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Come this winter a lot of people are going to freeze to death. And any savings accounts that do exist are going to be decimated. The government will force people to spend there life savings before they can even get Heap. And Heap payments for those who do get them will have to be tippled(or more) from last year before they will even be useful.


27 posted on 06/07/2022 12:40:42 PM PDT by Revel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Say the quiet part out loud janet- you and your ilk are super stoked that prices are soaring, and you have no intention of doing anything about it because you hate fossil fuels- Stop the misdirection-


28 posted on 06/07/2022 12:41:36 PM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump did.


29 posted on 06/07/2022 12:41:38 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The climate is more important than humanity.

It’s impossible for some people to admit they were wrong.


30 posted on 06/07/2022 12:41:40 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: RayChuang88

Hungry and freezing to death. That is what is coming.


31 posted on 06/07/2022 12:41:41 PM PDT by Revel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Part of the problem is GOP, and yes I called this at the time, stupidly lifted the ban on exporting Oil from the US....

Doesn’t help Biden has cut off the spigot either...

But once domestic producers could sell internationally, and weren’t limited to sell to US only, we kneecapped ourselves.


32 posted on 06/07/2022 12:42:40 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ProudDeplorable

You think Old Yellen has rabies?


33 posted on 06/07/2022 12:42:43 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: RayChuang88

“Just wait until these high fuel prices start causing actual food shortages by this fall.”

Rationing is in our future. It may be called something else - like “strong equity” - but rationing and wage and price controls are in our future if Biden hangs on long enough.

It might frighten me if I didn’t trust the federal government to always do the right thing.


34 posted on 06/07/2022 12:50:26 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said American consumers will be at the mercy of oil companies this summer”

Liar liar Pants on fire


35 posted on 06/07/2022 12:51:12 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just saw her.

I think she is in worse shape than Pedo Joe.

Her brain was really slooooow to feed words to her mouth.

Typical Brandon Administration member.


36 posted on 06/07/2022 12:55:23 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Revel

You are correct. That was Biden’s plan for day one. But remember when President Trump was in the white House, your belly was full. You had money in your wallet. You were prospering. Then the people said, “Hell with this.” “We will not have this man ruling us.” “We want Lying Joe Biden ruling us.” Well, you got him. Enjoy him. The best is yet to come. I bought gas in Newton, Alabama today and it was $ 4.69 9/10. Two weeks ago it was $ 4.29 9/10. It won’t be long before it is ten dollars a gallon. But that was what the Biden voters wanted. And according to the media there were 81 million of them. So there should be 81 million smiling faces today.


37 posted on 06/07/2022 12:55:47 PM PDT by sport
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why we allow a bunch of out of touch, elitist, geriatrics to destroy the country is beyond me.


38 posted on 06/07/2022 12:59:06 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In 1970, I could buy a six pack of beer for $1. And 5 gallons of gasoline for $1.

Today the six pack of beer costs $10 and you can only get 2 gallons of gas for that price.


39 posted on 06/07/2022 12:59:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm)
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40 posted on 06/07/2022 1:05:57 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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