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SergeStorms

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5. It's never gone below $3 per......

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 10:18 AM

17 hrs ago

in many parts of New York.

One thing I know about the petroleum industry: they're quick to raise prices, and move at a glacial pace to lower them.
Trump's meetings with the petroleum industry before, during, and after the Venezuelan incursion take on a whole different perspective now that he's bombing the crap out of Iran, n'est pas? 🤔

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Oil prices rise sharply after attacks in Middle East disrupt global energy supply [View all] BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago OP

Not as much as I expected, but give it time. Ferrets are Cool 18 hrs ago #1

It's definitely coming BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago #4

It's never gone below $3 per...... SergeStorms 17 hrs ago #5

Currently $2.69 in NC Miguelito Loveless 17 hrs ago #6

I have a feeling..... SergeStorms 16 hrs ago #7

Now the price of the Venezuelan oil that Trump is stealing @ gun point will go up. Botany 17 hrs ago #2

Almost like perfect planning huh? bluestarone 16 hrs ago #8

And guess what? A Trump backing billionaire just happens to own 3 oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico Botany 16 hrs ago #10

It was bid up before the strikes GreatGazoo 17 hrs ago #3

I filled up yesterday Give Peace A Chance 16 hrs ago #9

Gas went up 15 cents a gallon in my area Deminpenn 16 hrs ago #11

An overreaction. Somehow, probably illegally from one of tRUMP's cronies, let it escape that the Iran attacks were SWBTATTReg 13 hrs ago #12

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