Trump gas price gouging report
by Flint: Donald Trump
President Trump has instructed Americans to report gas station price gouging to authorities after observing that crude oil prices are plummeting. He noted, "WTI CRUDE - $69, and heading down. This is less than it was prior to the start of the Denuclearization of Iran!" and added "GAS PRICES COMING" along with a link. The post also includes a reference to a tweet by EricLDaugh.
Transcript (en)
You talked to the Department of Justice to do an investigation for oil companies that you said gas prices were not coming down quick enough. That's right. And you are concerned that there is price gouging on taking advantage of the crisis. Sir, can you elaborate on that? So it's Exxon Mobil, it's Chevron, it's Shell, it's BP, it's a lot of them. the gasoline or the oil prices have come down so much. And we are not seeing anything at the pump by comparison to where it should be. We should be, in my opinion, at $2.25 right now at the pump. And we're higher than that. And we are doing a big investigation on it. They're not reducing the prices commensurate with what's happening. Look, we are sending out, think of it, 19 million barrels came out yesterday. That is a flood. That's like a gusher. That's an oil gusher. And they should be much lower, the gasoline prices, which really is what people see more than anything else, you know, for their car. But the gasoline prices should be much lower at the pump. And the oil companies are possibly gouging. I hope they're not, otherwise they're going to be in big trouble. They're going to be in big trouble. We're not going to play games.
