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Pro wrestling referees are more subtle than this judge.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati.../29/cannon-dearie-trump-documents-classified/

 

Fuck it. Indict his ass and make her irrelevant.

 

Back the blue
If they cover up the coup

Republicans Hail 'Patriotic' FBI Agent Who Refused To Work On Jan. 6 Cases

 

There was a fire at ONE refinery. Haven't heard about any others. But yes, changing the seasonal mix is "routine." They do it twice a year, every freaking year, for decades. I would expect they also schedule regular, "routine" maintenance, like every other factory in the world does.

And yes, there are a lot of factors involved. We're not getting stimulus checks. The Fed isn't cutting the prime rate. Etc., etc. And you know as well as I do that even if ABSOLUTELY NOTHING changed, or if demand changed very little, the price would not fall 30 cents overnight or 50-60 cents in 2-3 days.

They'd play the old "has to go through the system" card. So don't be that guy and tell me otherwise. They're taking advantage of a set of circumstances to take some more profit.

Nothing more, nothing less. And as is usual when it involves big oil, the consumer suffers.

 

FFS

Ginni Thomas claims 2020 election was stolen in meeting with House Jan. 6 committee

 

goin' great!

 

This was in response to @garrow’s post about Ginni. The lyrics not included in the lyrics online, especially. Although they all apply.

 

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

That nasty refinery fire sure doesn't appear to have impacted gas prices much in the midwest. Meanwhile, the west is getting screwed.

It's also pretty much been a necessity, because we aren't building any new refining capacity due to regulation (extreme up front costs, and there is no guarantee that they won't outlaw your business tomorrow, so nobody is willing to invest)

Yeah, heaven forbid an oil company should be forced to build a refinery that's safe and not a huge polluter of the air and water. Darn those regulations.

And please, big oil is in absolutely no danger of being outlawed. Again, don't be that guy.

 

A friend worked at a large refinery in Philadelphia which burned a few years ago and was not rebuilt. Also, this country has spent the past few decades eliminating refining capacity for heavy crude (for diesel) and sells much of it to overseas buyers, one reason diesel is more expensive than regular gas.

 

The largest increase in those stories you linked was $.06 a gallon. That's a little different than 50-60 cents overnight, no, or 80 cents from earlier this month?

It's not a conspiracy. That implies someone doing something in secret. This is just transparent profit taking. Plain and simple.

And perhaps the right-wing talking point about having to drill more to prevent our "dependence on foreign oil!!!" would be more believable if we simply kept the oil we did drill here in-country, instead of refining it and then selling it overseas. Like used to be law until the oil lobby changed it several years ago.