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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 71.80 | -1.73 | -2.35% | ||
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Bonny Light • 19 hours | 72.36 | -1.43 | -1.94% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 75.19 | -1.69 | -2.20% | ||
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Mars US • 2 hours | 67.49 | -1.72 | -2.49% | ||
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Gasoline • 6 hours | 2.560 | -0.036 | -1.39% |
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Bonny Light • 19 hours | 72.36 | -1.43 | -1.94% | ||
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Girassol • 19 hours | 74.10 | -1.27 | -1.69% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 75.19 | -1.69 | -2.20% |
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Peace Sour • 18 hours | 63.71 | -3.21 | -4.80% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 18 hours | 65.01 | -3.21 | -4.71% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 18 hours | 73.96 | -3.21 | -4.16% | ||
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Central Alberta • 18 hours | 63.31 | -3.21 | -4.83% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 65.94 | -3.21 | -4.64% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 66.00 | -3.25 | -4.69% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 59.75 | -3.25 | -5.16% | ||
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Buena Vista • 9 days | 76.15 | -1.09 | -1.41% |
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Americans Blame Big Oil, Putin For High Gas Prices
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the oil industry are the ones to blame for high prices at the pump, according to a survey by Ipsos and ABC News.
The survey, carried out among 530 Americans last week, showed that 71 percent of them blamed Putin for the high domestic gas prices while 68 percent blamed the oil industry. A little over half, 52 percent, blamed the policies of the Democratic party for the high prices, and 51 percent blamed President Joe Biden specifically.
A third of the respondents placed the blame on Republican policies, and 24 percent said high prices at the pump were Donald Trump's fault.
Another finding from the poll was that about half of the respondents were suffering financial hardship because of higher gas prices. Of these, 21 percent said the hardship was serious,
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline stood at $4.116 as of Sunday, according to the AAA. That was down from $4.318 a month ago but a lot higher than the national average a year ago, which stood at $2.865 per gallon.
The White House has tried everything to rein in prices, from calling on OPEC to produce more to releasing millions of barrels of crude from the strategic petroleum reserve, to, most recently, calling on the local oil industry to boost production. This has appeared to be challenging for the industry due to the lingering effects of pandemic supply chain disruptions and shortages.
This has not stopped Congress from seeking to blame the industry for high prices. In a hearing last week, the House subcommittee on energy and commerce summoned half a dozen Big Oil executives to explain themselves.
"We will not sit back and allow the fossil-fuel industry to take advantage of the American people and gouge them at the pump," the WSJ quoted Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, who chairs the subcommittee, as saying ahead of the hearing.
The hearing did not end with anything particularly productive: Big Oil explained that exploration and production companies were not the ones setting retail fuel prices and that there was a host of factors at play in these prices, few of them under the control of the upstream industry.
The latest move by the Biden administration to motivate more oil production has been a proposal to make American oil companies pay fees on wells from leases they have not used in years and on acres "that they are hoarding without producing," as part of a plan to respond to "Putin's price hike at the pump."
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Richard G on April 11 2022 said:Actually, we all know that gas prices were already high (and climbing) long before we've been feed the never ending Putin bad, Russia bad, narrative... -
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Tim Murray on April 11 2022 said:I HIGHLY doubt the accuracy of any pole stating Russia or Putin is to blame for our current oil prices! Bottom line, our leaderships job is to find solutions to problems like this, they are 100% accountable for this. President Biden has stated on multiple occasions he is more interested in advancing green energy than taking on high oil prices - literally said this multiple times! You dont need a pole to tell you whats going on, especially when pole results can be influenced by how a question is asked, or WHO is asked. Instead of needing to pole to tell us what to think, just maybe listen to what our leadership is saying and doing! Which is VERY little to reduce oil prices! Putins fault?? I think not. -
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ZachHarding on April 11 2022 said:Uh, no, clearly the policy of the Biden Administration is fully to blame…we were energy independent and net exporters of oil/gas before they took charge…just the facts. -
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Barry J Blank Jr. on April 11 2022 said:Not enough data to make a statement that broad. Not all Americans are blaming big oil, only a certain demographic that seems to believe it is entitled to wealth it did not produce and are owed benefits they do not earn. The gas prices are a pain, but that also not the fault of producers but of poor policy, poor planning, and terrible regulatory lawmaking. The reason these people are suffering is more often their own fault for living beyond their means to begin with, then expecting a lifestyle they cannot maintain on their own merit to be supplied by someone else. I am an American, and I see the things I am mentioning every day so I can comment on my own observations. Government should stay out of the market, and the problem now is that they are entrenched in it and the market is tainted. You cannot cut the tree down them complain when it does not produce the fruit you need to survive. You also can't tape it back together and curse it when it stays dead.
Richard G on April 11 2022 said:
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