So apparently Zombie Joe Brainsniff announced a brilliant plan to lower gas prices: retailers should just charge less at the pump, is all. Yay! Given current retail markups, the average retailer could easily lower the price by, say, $1/gallon... if he didn't mind losing around 98¢/gallon. But all businesses have unlimited money, right? They have that dish on the roof to download money from the Fed's money satellite?
Oh, and he's also planning to declare a gas tax holiday. On, it seems, both federal and state gas taxes. Wait... what authority does the President, or Congress for that matter, have over state taxes?
Meanwhile, that other old man yelling at clouds, ol' Bernie, says we should lower the price of gas by raising taxes on oil companies (yeah, because higher expenses always lead to lower retail prices) and... wait for it... end OPEC's illegal price-fixing cartel.
Er. Enforce U.S. antitrust laws against a consortium of nations? Hey, there's already a song!
Which... especially if one attempts this against OPEC+... could segue into another song.
Oh, well. The post-WWII world order was nice while it lasted.
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