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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Boasts That 'Everyone Was Wrong' About Oil Prices Amid Iran War: They Thought it Would Be '$300 a Barrel'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-boasts-that-everyone-was-wrong-about-oil-prices-amid-iran-war-they-thought-it-would-be-300-a-barrel/This guy is out of his mind. So, who is "EVERYONE"? You know, he uses that term all the time when it's actually "no one", as he can't name 1 person when confronted. And who the hell said 300 a barrel? That would mean 10 bucks a gallon to the consumer. Odd's are someone said it, but not EVERYONE?
This has to be his total stupidity to make us feel better about a 2 dollar a gallon increase since he started from this illegal fake stupid war.
I am so fed up with the lies, corruption, and total bullshit.
Skittles
(172,512 posts)and all too often he has to make shit up as the "proof" for his deluded base
Blue Owl
(59,495 posts)D_Master81
(2,654 posts)A week ago he said $200 now its $300. My guess is that he was given an update where 200 is more possible so hes moving the goalposts preemptively. Cause honestly if you went to war with the chance that oil could 6X in price you are being incredibly irresponsible. 300 wrecks the world economy
RockRaven
(19,678 posts)It is still a 50% price rise.
It was around $70/barrel right before his war started. This week it is $105 or so.
And the $70 starting point of this comparison was on the high side of where prices had been during his term. If you go back a full year, for example, current oil prices are up 80+%.
Renew Deal
(85,305 posts)BS sales tactic that at least some people fall for.
Someone should ask him why he would go forward with the war if he was expecting a 300% increase. That's almost $9 per gallon
FascismIsDeath
(231 posts)So if/when that happens, he'll repeat the same statement only replacing 300 with 400.
Renew Deal
(85,305 posts)The drug companies wouldn't just give it way for free. They would pay you to take the medication.
He lies constantly
FascismIsDeath
(231 posts)I'd rather eat glass than try to discern whatever the hell he and RFKj are trying to push with that nonsense.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,493 posts)...
For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it.
fujiyamasan
(1,969 posts)I need to go back and read the whole thing.
LilElf70
(1,624 posts)And they are just a small percentage of the total bullshit.
Johonny
(26,482 posts)It would mean someone, likely from the military, has briefed him that 300$ a barrel oil is possible. Probably not from a short to moderate length war, but from a year or two length engagement. Here, Trump is likely telling us the worst case scenario. Instead of the blow smoke up your ass scenario he usually gives us.
70sEraVet
(5,585 posts)Gas would be $5 per gallon.
bsiebs
(975 posts)eShirl
(20,377 posts)all of them
PCIntern
(28,526 posts)LilElf70
(1,624 posts)do not belong anywhere near the White House.