Democrats and gas prices

[Into the Night]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036767683912335523

View: https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/2036767683912335523?s=20

It's called a cherry picking fallacy. Democrats LOVE this fallacy when quoting data.
They also like to make up 'data'.

 

[Diogenes]

Great....minus the word games and your dishonesty related to gas prices, my bulleted list is accurate.

Think so?

 

[Diogenes]

The United States has not been importing oil from Iran.

We were importing some. Not much, comparatively.

 

[ZenMode]

Think so?

based on your inability to refute them, in any relevant way, yes.

 

[Diogenes]

based on your inability to refute them, in any relevant way, yes.

I don't need to "refute" your arguments. Y O U need to substantiate them.

 

[Diogenes]

Pre-conflict forecasts (from EIA, JPMorgan, etc., in February) expected Brent to average in the $60–70 range for much of 2026 due to global oversupply and inventory builds.

Geopolitical disruptions have instead injected a large risk premium, causing analysts (e.g., S&P Global, Goldman Sachs) to revise 2026 assumptions upward significantly—to around $75–85/bbl on average—but with wide uncertainty bands depending on how long Hormuz-related issues persist.

Some longer-dated futures contracts suggest the market views the current spike as partly temporary (pricing in potential de-escalation later in 2026), but near-term prices are not settling into any narrow range.

In short, oil prices are currently more reactive to news flow than to underlying supply/demand fundamentals, so any sense of "stabilization" would likely require clearer resolution on the Middle East situation. Markets are watching developments closely, and prices could swing further in either direction on fresh headlines.

 

[Into the Night]

Better by .20? Not a meaningful difference when the price jumped $1.50.

Whiner.

Yes, it is.

So, back to what you called a my "story".

Which of these claims is the "story"?

• I'm paying $5 a gallon

Your story.

• I live in Maricops county where the average price is $4.91: Link

$4.91 is not $5. AAA Average price is no the highest or lowest price.

• $4.because we had a nuclear agreement in place with Iran,
  • Link
• Trump tore it up,
  • Link

Oil is not a nuclear fuel, Void. Iran violated the nuclear treaty, not Trump.

• then spent $200 billion to attack Iran,
  • Link

A drop in the bucket.

• they (Iran) closed the strait of Hormuz
  • Link

Iran did, temporarily.

• and now we have to offer them a deal, where we have to ask them to reopen the straight of hormuz and, once again, agree to not develop nukes?
  • Link

The Strait is open, Void. Iran will not get to build nukes.

 

[Into the Night]

Great....minus the word games and your dishonesty related to gas prices, my bulleted list is accurate.

Lie. You can't blame your word games on anybody else, Void.

 

[Diogenes]

Whiner.

Did @ZenMode whine when gas averaged $5 a gallon in June, 2022?

 

[Tbird19482]

Current oil price is 94.31.
Gasoline is converting to summer mix. That usually causes a spike in gasoline prices around March-April, Tball. THAT was caused by DEMOCRATS.

You cannot blame DEMOCRATS on Trump, Tball.

Too many truckers can't speak, read, or write English, and can't understand basic road signs. Again, a problem caused by DEMOCRATS.

LIAR

 

[Into the Night]

based on your inability to refute them, in any relevant way, yes.

Circular argument fallacy (fundamentalism).

 

[Into the Night]

LIAR

Denial of history. Argument of the Stone fallacy.

 

[ZenMode]

I don't need to "refute" your arguments. Y O U need to substantiate them.

Already done, bullet by bullet, which is why you resorted to disputing meaningless details rather than my point.

 

[Diogenes]

Denial of history. Argument of the Stone fallacy.

Fun fact: @Tbird19482 buys cheap gas on an Indian reservation and has admitted that the prices others pay at the pump don't affect him at all.

Didn't need to complain I live about a mile or so from a reservation and we buy it there it is a hell of a lot cheaper.

 

[Diogenes]

Already done, bullet by bullet, which is why you resorted to disputing meaningless details rather than my point.

So you say.

 

[ZenMode]

Circular argument fallacy (fundamentalism).

 

[ZenMode]

So you say.

Yes, that's how communication works. Someone says things. In this case, I made a claim and you asked me to support it, which I did. Now you're resorting to word games to unnecessarily drag this out.

 

[Diogenes]

Yes, that's how communication works. Someone says things. In this case, I made a claim and you asked me to support it, which I did. Now you're resorting to word games to unnecessarily drag this out.

Is that so?

 

[Tbird19482]

Denial of history. Argument of the Stone fallacy.

FUCK YOU YOU LIAR.

 

[ZenMode]

Is that so?