What determines gas prices?
Well, that is easy, the amount on the market. To much oil, prices drop. Not enough, prices rise. As far as gasoline, refinery capacity has a marked affect also. We can have a trillion barrels of oil, but if we don't have the capacity to refine it to keep up with demand, gasoline is going up along with diesel.
So now I ask you---------->geopolitics aside, why is/was it that Trump could get the House of Saud to increase, or decrease production to keep prices stable, but Biden can't get them to do anything he believes is in the best interest of America and the world? Umm, did you ever think for a moment, it just MAY be because Trump got rid of the Iran Nuke deal, basically protecting the Kingdom while sanctioning Iran and starving them out, while Biden is doing the Obama/Biden thing and trying to reinstitute it! You don't think for an instant that this is why The House of Saud basically switched sides, do you? Of course not, lol!
Do you think that Putins invasion which took almost 10% of viable crude off the market due to sanctions has anything to do with the price of oil rising? And yet Biden can not get the House of Saud to budge. Gee, wonder why? Anyone have a clue, lol.
What price is to high? Hey Gator, let us pretend you and I are ranchers producing beef. We want the price of beef to rise so people will eat more chicken; cause it is healthy for them ya know, just ask the Dems, they will tell you. So we screw with the other ranchers so they won't produce, but the price of beef goes so high, people now can hardly afford it and our peasants are in revolt. What to do, what to do?!?!?!?!
The charming and delightful Gator calls me on the phone and says, "look, I have an idea!" We have the price up past where we need it to get people to eat chicken, so here is the deal---------> we start pushing to increase production ourselves showing we are doing everything we can so the peasants don't lynch us. We then rub our hands together, and claim we are doing everything we can to lower prices; including taking meat out of our own freezers and send it to market to prove the point. We will become heroes, and nobody will be the wiser!!!!
It is said that---------->If Trump would have gotten re-elected, Putin would NOT have invaded. I can NOT prove that is factual, so will not even try. But what I CAN prove is that Joe got in, and all hell broke loose, and that combined with trying to re-institute the Iran deal has caused the price of oil to skyrocket.
So when someone says to a thinking individual that Biden policies are not adversely affecting the price of oil and the market, all I can do is laugh and proclaim that he/they are, even if he may be to senile to realize it; or maybe smart enough to know that if he can shift the blame, the peasants will be satisfied and not throw him out on Pennsylvania Avenue on his keister!