I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT OPENLY DEMANDED HIGHER GAS PRICES:
President Trump secured 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela.
He just secured military and economic control over Greenland.
Poverty in the US just hit an all-time low.
We have net negative immigration to the US for the first time in 75 years.
Do you see why they have to…
— Pro America Politics (@proamericapol) September 19, 2026
Tweet concludes, “Do you see why they have to desperately obsess over the temporary increase in gas prices? It’s all they have.”
Obama and his cronies obsessed over creating a permanent increase in gas prices. As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”