US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’
Donald Trump has criticised oil companies for “making too much money” from the global energy market disruption caused by his war on Iran.
Brent crude had been trading at about $70 (£52) a barrel before the first US-Israeli strikes at the end of February, but by the end of April it had soared as high as $126 and is now trading at about $85 a barrel.
The US president took aim at the windfall profits revealed last week by ExxonMobil and Chevron, and said the companies would “give some of that back to the public”.
Gas should be $1/gal for the next 5 years.
Cheap gas drives people to consume more of it, destroying the atmosphere, and killing people on our roads. How about instead we take the money from them and reinvest it in sovereign clean energy infrastructure? And then next time they want to have a war in the middle east, we’ll have one less giant problem.
If that happens, USA will just buy bigger and bigger trucks.
$1/gal -> 0.229 euro per liter
Quite a number of european counties pay tenfold today
But I have to drive my Ford F350 Super Duty Fuck-My-Wife edition 😭
ahhh … that 6 year old pick-up the one with the never-has-and-never-will-be-used truckbed