(05-01-2026 01:46 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(05-01-2026 12:45 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(05-01-2026 11:09 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(05-01-2026 08:19 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-30-2026 05:09 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Did you forget Russia's part in this. Also it looks like your time line is a little mixed up.

I've mentioned Russia many times before in talking about their Ukraine invasion leading to elevated gas prices, but you only asked me about the OPEC 2020 deal and why trump signed it. I don't recall Russia playing much of a roll in this other than them being a member of OPEC. But this deal was a win for OPEC. The completely bamboozled trump here...so I'm sure Russia and the other OPEC leaders laughed vociferously when trump actually agreed to this horrific deal.

And you're going to have to be a tad more specific on what you think is mixed up with the timeline. Keeping in mind that again, changes in the O&G industry often take over a year to materialize into changing the price of gas.

You seem to be confused with the bases of the question.
"Can you tell us why Trump made that deal and be honest about it"

I guess you forgot about the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia at the time. Saudi Arabia initiated a price war on oil with Russia, which facilitated a 65% quarterly fall in the price of oil. So why was the deal made,I ask you again.

I noticed that after you replied to my comment you called someone ignorant. If I was you I wouldn't be throwing that word around. I asked you a simple question and you have danced around it. I know you are not ignorant but you seem to be playing that Card.

Dude, check your eyes. I answered your question with my first sentence in the first reply. I bolded it for you. I don't know why he made the deal.

I then went on to give you my opinion on why he might have made the deal.

And regardless of whatever was occurring between SA and Russia at the time, the deal was made, and it ended up being one of the worst, if not the worst deal any US president has ever made in regards to OPEC.

Bottom line, Putin, SA, and OPEC are all drastically smarter than trump...and even more so when it comes to matters of O&G. And no, Biden wasn't smarter then them on it either. They played him like a fiddle.

#ArtOfTheDeal

Well Ok you don't know. But in one hand you are saying you don't know why Trump made that deal in 2020. But in the other hand you are saying the deal he made screwed Biden in 2022. Sounds like you only know half the story but I think you do. You just don't want to talk about it. At the same time you are defending high gas prices during Biden by trying to blame Trump without knowing anything about the deal in 2020. You know maybe the problem was Biden and his DEI cabinet was dumber than a bag of rocks and didn't know how to make a deal. Or maybe if they didn't spend all of there time pushing all the Green deal stuff.

Yeah, I don't know why he made the deal...I can only speculate. As can you. Unless you have some source of trump explaining why he made the deal. Good luck with that...I've yet to see him cogently explain any policy decision of his. It's usually just unintelligible word salad.

But yes, I'm well aware of what the deal did and how it effected gas prices under Biden. I've explained it many many times on here the last couple years. And it didn't just screw Biden, it screwed us all...and was the primary driver of our $5 record high gas prices under Biden. That's not a defense of the prices or Biden, it's just a truthful explanation of them. I'm not the one trying to pin that all on Biden, you guys are...and ignorantly so.

And Biden's cabinet had jack to do with this...but if you think his Cabinet isn't up to par with trump's, you're delusional.