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I just ordered home heating oil... FIVE TWENTY-NINE A GALLON. I have (2) 330 gallon tanks. I thought I'd order 200 at 4.65 to tide me over until the price goes down, but today it is FIVE TWENTY-NINE. So I ordered the miserable 100 gallon minimum instead of paying over a thousand for 200 gallons. I love Trump, but this is unsustainable, and there should be no reason it is happening with the amount of oil we are producing domestically. I am P!SSED! If you have some snide insulting comment for me, blast away, but if you do that I...

President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner last month because he didn’t like the monthly jobs numbers. He claimed the numbers were “rigged.” But Friday’s monthly report for August confirms that job creation has stalled amid his tariff barrage. Employers added a mere 22,000 jobs last month while the numbers were revised down for the previous two by a combined 21,000. This means only 107,000 new jobs were created in the last four months—an average of 27,000. Monthly job gains averaged 167,000 last year. Nearly all of the new jobs last month were in social assistance and healthcare...