Blame High Gas Prices on Red Tape
Oil companies won’t invest in facilities to produce gasoline until they know they’ll be allowed a future.
Oil companies won’t invest in facilities to produce gasoline until they know they’ll be allowed a future.
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Research on the effects of Oregon's loosening of its self-service gas ban finds that allowing adults to pump their own gas increases supply and lowers prices.
Democrats are trying to inject a political solution into an economic problem.
Corporations were just as greedy when prices fell in 2019 and early 2020.
Gas prices fell in April, dragging the month's average price increases down to 0.3 percent after March's staggering climb.
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Some want to solve the problem with subsidies for gas, housing, child care, and more. That only risks greater stagnation.
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The president is running from his own hefty contributions to record gas prices and inflation.
The White House's latest attempt to scapegoat rising prices ignores everything that happened before the past three weeks.
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Oil supplies were already tight before petro-state Russia invaded Ukraine.
Gasoline may reach an average of $4 per gallon.
A federal gasoline tax holiday would undermine the user fee system for funding highways and could worsen inflation.
Warren's claim that oil companies are jacking up prices to turn a bigger profit doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
And Trump is taking full credit.
The protectionist Jones Act makes it harder to move fuel around the country.
Making it easier to add energy capacity won’t prevent hacking hiccups, but it would help keep energy flowing.
Don't punish businesses for raising prices during a crisis.
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It's out of gasoline.
Why Congress should abolish the ethanol mandate.
While New Jersey defends its ban on self-service pumping to the death, Oregon legislators are considering allowing motorists a little more choice.
The administration says its proposal will make cars more affordable and save lives.
Having two senators who opposed the Iran deal show up to denounce Trump for pulling out of the Iran deal was only the beginning of the hypocrisy exhibition.
Maybe, but it's more likely that Americans chose to have fewer kids.
Rising U.S. oil production will moderate future price increases.
A backwards, protectionist law mandating an obsolete job has been only slightly relaxed.
The petro-autocracies attempt to get more cash to buy off their restive populations will fail
The president is virtue-signalling during his final year in office.
Lifting the ban would lower gas prices and boost domestic oil production - Obama wants to keep it.
NJ adults can't perform what's a basic task in most of the country
They should probably enjoy that cheap gas while they can get it.
Take control of refinery responsible for 25 percent of domestic consumption
Government has no business dictating prices in the first place.
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