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Of course, the price of oil in April was during the pandemic. Biden campaigned of eliminating domestic oil and gas from our economy. You can blame anyone or anything you want on the rise in oil prices. It may be because of the pandemic, Putin's March 2022 invasion, Trump's orange hair, or the little green men (or women) from Mars. The week Biden was elected, I filled my tank and paid $1.79 per gallon for gas. That week, the price per barrel of oil was $37.14. The price began to rise (as expected) immediately after Biden was elected and has climbed ever since. You can try to blame the pandemic and say that there were less drivers; but that means less demand and as anyone who's had a basic economics course knows... less demand means lower prices. You can try to blame Putin, but that doesn't explain the 258% increase from the election to before Putin invaded. You can try to blame Trump or his hair, but the country was an oil exporter and energy independent when Biden took over and the price of oil, at one time under the orange man, was even in negative numbers. So it must be either the little green men from Mars... or perhaps Biden's energy policy.
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