Speak Up: Delawareans dealing with ‘beyond ridiculous’ gas prices
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Prices at the gas pump are rising at unprecedented rates across the country. Recently, the average price per gallon rose 10 cents and was up 50 cents from the previous week. The average at that time was $4.10 per gallon.
Biden is worse than Carter. — Doug Poore
People need to remember this come November and vote. — Jack Evans
You think the Republicans can control gas prices? — Dale Bert
They can put pressure on the president to open our own resources that we had in the last administration. — Jack Evans
We already have them open. The U.S. is producing more oil now than it did for 30 out of the 48 months the former president was in office. And the projections are that oil production will reach new records by the end of this year. — Dale Bert
Joe did that. — Robert W. Dowd
Complain to OPEC. Biden doesn’t control pricing. — Susan Glenn Lambert
Lots of people forgetting that Trump brokered a two-year deal with OPEC and Mexico for one of the largest production cuts in history in 2020. He did this as he was still downplaying COVID and telling everyone that the economy was fine and things would be back to normal soon. Luckily, this disastrous deal ends either this month or next month. — Gary Smithsonian
I think you forgot the nuance of what was happening at the time. The Saudis were in a price war with Russia and started flooding the market with oil. This caused the massive drop in price that started to bankrupt domestic oil producers and cause dangerous backlogs in refining. At that time, cutting back production stabilized prices and allowed the U.S. to remain profitable in the world market. You seem to forget that oil use was down dramatically due to COVID lockdowns worldwide. Trump may have been an idiot about a lot of things, but that wasn’t one of them. — Jake Phil
