easyt65
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Yeah, putting tens of thousands of Americans out of work - after already destroying more than 50% of minority-owned small businesses and putting their employees out of work, taking millions away from small towns that used their oil / pipeline-generated revenue - money used to pay for schools / day cares, etc..., in the middle of a pandemic in which Democrats used COVID-19 to torpedo the economy and wipe out the successes of Americans who had escaped the Democrat plantsation and policies of economic slavery.....Yup, put tens of thousand oil industry workers out of a job, lie to them and promise them they can have non-existent 'Green' jobs to save their families and ability to make a living, and put all of the other fossil fuel industries - and their employees - on notice that you're coming after them and their jobs, too...stop the leasing of land for oil fracking and drilling, and attempt to tout the successes of 'Green Energy' after the Texas debacle...tell Americans you are going to outlaw the use of all fossil fuel and the internal combustion engine (say good -bye to your cars - the govt going to buy you a new one?) and rely on alternate green energy sources that currently provide only 30% of our nation's energy needs and plan to rely on TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS NOT BEEN INVENTED YET (like those Green Energy jobs Biden promised the tens of thousands of Oil industry workers he fired in his 1st 10 days in office)....The site is notoriously biased towards leftists / Dems and has been caught lying more than once....The independent Pulitzer winning website notes that the pipeline wasn't even operational, despite the fake news spread by Facebook right winger Ted Nugent.
Facebook flagged the fake news too.
The good news is that if you like fake news, the false claim is widely available in USMB, where right wing nicknames gladly copy and paste what Ted Nugent types.
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stated on March 7, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Joe Biden executive orders caused price increases of 50 cents in gas and 10% in food.
President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP)
By Tom KertscherMarch 10, 2021
No, the price of gas isn’t up 50 cents, price of food isn’t up 10% under Biden
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- The average price of gas is about 34 cents per gallon higher since Biden took office.
- Experts say Biden’s orders on the Keystone pipeline and oil and gas leasing might affect future gas prices, but have no effect on current prices.
- Grocery store prices are 3.5% higher than they were one year ago and have risen less than 1% in 2021.
Are President Joe Biden’s executive orders so powerful that, in the less than two months he’s held office, they have spiked the price of gasoline by 50 cents and the price of food by 10%?
That’s the claim of a post widely shared by musician Ted Nugent and others on Facebook.
It says: "When executive orders cause gas to go up 50 cents a gallon and food costs to increase 10%, you just taxed the middle class."
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
Biden began issuing executive orders on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration. The claim we’re checking was posted March 7. Let’s see what’s happened in between.
Gas up 34 cents; orders not a factor
Since bottoming out at $1.87 a gallon in late April 2020, gas prices have mostly been going up. The bulk of the increase came under President Donald Trump, with prices continuing to rise under Biden.
Nationally, the average price of a gallon of gas was $2.46 on Jan. 18, the final weekly tally before Biden took office. It rose to $2.80 on March 1, the latest weekly tally before the Facebook post, according to the U.S. Energy Administration. That’s an increase of 34 cents under Biden.
The prices were similar at GasBuddy.com: $2.41 on Jan. 19 and $2.77 on March 7 — an increase of 36 cents.
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stated on February 10, 2021 in a Facebook post
Says Gorilla Glue tweeted, “Do not use our products on your f------ hair.”
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 10, 2021
Some critics have said that Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline with one executive order would quickly result in higher gasoline prices. But we previously found that, for several reasons, that’s not the case. For starters, the pipeline wasn’t operating yet, so canceling it didn’t change the balance of supply and demand.
In the same executive order, Biden placed a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. But Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy.com, said that action has not affected current gas prices either, because current oil supplies are not affected. The order could, however, have an impact on gas prices in a few years, he said.
In general, a president has limited control over the weekly and monthly shifts in gasoline prices. Gas prices depend mostly on global supply and demand.
The OPEC oil cartel and Russia have made voluntary production cuts, which has the effect of raising prices. A greater impact has been made on prices by demand, as a result of the slow but steady economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.No, gas isn’t up 50 cents and food isn’t up 10% under Biden
Are President Joe Biden’s executive orders so powerful that, in the less than two months he’s held office, they have spiwww.politifact.com
China and Canada benefit from the Keystone XL.. The US consumer does not. Quit being a knuckle dragger.
Gee, yeah...sure, I can see how none of that could possibly have an impact on gas prices, our energy independence, and making our enemies stronger.