Quote Originally Posted by RobPA
You would think that when we invaded one of the largest petro producing countries that gas prices would go down, not up :wtf:
That would only be true if production actually went up, which it has not, due to chaos and sabotage. If cheap oil was the plan, it didn't pan out. Or it might be that cheap oil was never the plan --- oil companies make more money with expensive oil than with cheap oil. Just because the war was about oil does not mean it was necessarily about getting YOU cheap gas.
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