Posted on 05/24/2024 9:37:14 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Congressional Democrats on Thursday accused oil companies of inflating the cost of gasoline and vowed to investigate them, pushing back on who's to blame for rising prices hurting President Joe Biden's reelection chances.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats were flanked by supporters in matching blue shirts holding signs that read, "Stop gouging us at the pump."
Schumer criticized recent billion-dollar oil company mergers, such as one between ExxonMobil and Pioneer Natural Resources, as potentially "disastrous for consumers."
He said previous mergers in the industry decreased competition and led to higher prices.
Schumer said he had already called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the mergers and would urge the Justice Department to look into possible collusion and price fixing.
"The federal government must use every tool at our disposal to investigate the oil industry," he said.
Schumer also claimed former President Donald Trump offered oil industry CEOs $1 billion in exchange for a reversal of President Joe Biden's climate policies if Trump were reelected, an accusation Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse repeated.
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"This issue is never the issue."
Let’s don’t introduce logic and reality into the conversation. 😀
What the execs should is it’s just transitory
Come on down to SC. It’s great. I’m in Pawleys Island. 😀
Or maybe conservative people like me who don’t need glasses anymore because I had cataract surgery! Maybe I should be worried about a no-knock raid.
You can always tell when they’re not getting enough in bribes
You are correct.
Democrats are also evil and TRYING TO DESTROY THIS GREAT COUNTRY.
VOTE,DEMOCRATS OUT.
Democrats think PEOPLE ARE STUPID.
We have HIGH GAS PRICES BECAUSE OF BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS.
WAT WERE GAS PRICES WHEN WE HAD PRESIDENT TRUMP.
The USA uses 8 MILLION BARRELS of oil every day.
It is the exact same playbook the damocrats always run. Their policies cause problems, but they then blame others for the problems. Limiting drilling and limiting refining (democrat policies) are going to raise prices but of course it is the evil oil companies at fault cause they won’t give the fuel away. Democrats are pure scum.
Rats have tried this tactic in the past….. never works.
Yes! 👍🏻👍🏻
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