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I joined Facebook for one reason, So i could talk easily with friends, in Vietnam and Canada who were on Facebook, on Facebook Messenger. Then i was told i had to join Facebook to use Messenger .. https://www.messenger.com/t/564468388/ . I don't know what you see there. Surely not my conversations. Then i discovered you don't have to join FB to use Messenger. So i have a FB account, but only used it about three times, early. Now, NEVER go there.

Now we see here there is another good reason to have a FB account.

You could join and never ever use it, then you would be able to see that video of Cruz holding up his hands and saying stuff like - i know high oil prices are Putin's fault, but Biden early shut Keystone down. And on day one closed down all leases on federal land, onshore and offshore. And he shut down a small but oil-rich region in Alaska. And he unleashed federal regulators on the companies. Like locusts, mind you. And the result was exactly what they intended production went down.

And more i won't bother watching. You get the idea. This, with it's embedded links, pretty well debunk 's Cruz's talking points

Senate Republicans are pretending gas prices didn't start rising under Trump

By Josh Israel -
March 10, 2022 12:00 PM

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Neither he nor his colleagues acknowledged that the prices actually began to increase months before Biden's landslide November 2020 presidential election victory against Trump.

A gallon of gas cost, on average, $1.938 in April 2020, when the economy was largely shut down due to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With people staying at home, demand was quite low.

As the economy began to rebound, gasoline prices began to do the same. By the time Trump left the White House in January 2021, they were already back up to $2.42 per gallon. The gradual growth in demand and price continued as the economy blossomed under Biden.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and his GOP colleagues, tried to blame the entire increase on the president's environmental policies.

"A ban on Russian oil is exactly what is needed—we should have never been funding Putin’s war! But the current price spikes in gas didn’t happen overnight. President Biden's obstruction of U.S. oil & gas production drove up prices over the last year," he tweeted.

But fact-checkers .. https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2022/03/07/some-truths-about-gas-prices-that-biden-critics-would-rather-you-not-consider/ .. have widely debunked their assertions that Biden's decisions to cancel the dangerous Keystone XL .. https://americanindependent.com/senate-republicans-keystone-pipeline-canada/ .. pipeline and pause new drilling projects on public lands were any significant factor .. https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2022/03/07/some-truths-about-gas-prices-that-biden-critics-would-rather-you-not-consider/ .. in current prices.

Indeed the New York Times published a fact check .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/us/politics/fact-check-republicans-biden-gas.html .. on Wednesday titled "Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices," noting that the canceled Canadian tar sands pipeline project and the lack of new public drilling leases had made minimal price impact.

"COVID changed the game, not President Biden," said GasBuddy petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan told the paper. "U.S. oil production fell in the last eight months of President Trump’s tenure. Is that his fault? No."

Last year, Biden asked Congress to pass $555 billion in clean energy and climate change infrastructure investments as part of his Build Back Better agenda.

The bill passed the House but stalled in the Senate, with every single Republican opposing. Had it become law, the move away from fossil fuel would already have begun by now.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/senate-republicans-gas-prices-increase-donald-trump/

I'll post the Times article linked above, in full, in reply here.