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Oh, I thought you remember anyways.
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Republicans always blame immigrants for crime,
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but it turns out that oil companies might be the real scammer
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stealing from us. Tell me,
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when's the last time you filled up your tank?
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Well, brother, I do not recall because I drive an
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electric vehicle. What do you think?
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Like a gallon of gas cost about right now?
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You're not too far off but,
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oh, that's a good guess because it's like in the middle
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of like, it's crazy and apparently reports say that an American
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oil company conspired with the Saudi government to hike up gas prices
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There's been some finessing going on.
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Exactly. They're gassing it up anyways.
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the FTC found out the pioneer CEO plotted with OPEC
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the global oil organization,
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including countries like Saudi Arabia,
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Iran and Kuwait and the CEO asked to cut oil production.
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So Americans would pay more for gas.
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So basically American oil producers teamed up with the,
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with OPEC to make oil prices higher,
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costing us a whopping $200 billion last year.
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I felt that and get this.
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It might have cost each of us $1000 and made up 27%
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of all inflation in 2021.
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So now the FTC is allowing Exxon to buy out Pioneer,
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but they're not letting the CEO join the board sketchy.
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Oh, yeah, definitely.
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Well, hopefully gas price go down,
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but I'm not too optimistic.
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