Hurricanes are loooong over.
Why is my TrumpGas™ still costing $2.39? When President Obama (praise be unto Him!) left office ObamaGas™ was $2.09!
Trump is a colossal failure.
Trump has not done enough on the oil front. So far it's all been front. The Saudis are still manipulating the price. Trump is essentially doing a partial Obama impression.
Don't even give shithead Obama any credit for price reduction. He intentionally drove prices up. Any price reduction was in spite of obama not because of obama.
Presidents can't raise or lower gas prices DUMBASS.
When they can expand or prohibit extraction of oil they sure as hell can. Bush 9-08, Obama 2-09.
Oil is an
international fungible commodity Elmer.
That's where its prices are set. OPEC has more influence on that than a POTUS does. Further, regardless who allows or prohibits extraction it's not "us" who extracts it --- it's oil companies. Which are again multinational capitalistic corporations whose objective is
profit. And that, little guy, means their allegiance is to
shareholders, not countries. And that in turn means that that barrel of oil that just came out and got refined, might go to Indiana or it might go to India. Whatever makes more profit at the time. The fact that it may have come from a source that wasn't there last year is literally a drop in the bucket. And once that drop is in that bucket --- you don't get to call where the bucket goes. Nomsayin'?
Sorry, you don't get to walk out to a beach on the Pacific Ocean and declare it's your ocean just because you took a squirt that morning.
There's your quick lesson on how oil works. That'll be two-fifty nine and nine tenths of a cent per gallon.