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I was in Mexico earlier this month. Gasoline prices a dollar per gallon less than in the US. Why? Socialism. The Mexican government nationalized its oil industry in 1938 and runs it as an economic stimulus program not a profit making enterprise. It is horribly corrupt and inefficient. But the price of gasoline is lower.

In the US, gasoline prices are set by supply and demand. If you don’t like the high prices, drive leas or buy an electric vehicle. Or support nationalizing the oil industry. Those who blame Biden for high oil prices are either hypocrites or closet socialists. The priver oil industry in the US does not want to drill or to open more refineries. It has an absolute right to simply return dividends to shareholders rather than to invest in more production.

Conservatives used to support free markets. Apparently no longer.