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      She’s a great communicator and seems to be genuine in trying to help Americans.

      To be pedantic, as Chair of the FTC, Ms. Khan isn’t a cabinet member. The FTC is an independent agency, which exists outside of the executive branch’s departments. The heads of the departments are cabinet members. Think: DOJ, DOD, State, Agriculture, Interior, Education, Energy, Treasury, etc.

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    "Hess, in statements included in the filing, has praised OPEC’s price-controlling pumping. He said in a 2021 Hess earnings call that the cartel’s leadership had done a “masterful job [in] giving the market what it needs, but not oversupplying it,” and that “OPEC, I think, has done a great job managing the oil market.”

    Go fuck yourself.

    "In a dissenting opinion from the agency’s Monday ruling, Melissa Holyoak, a commissioner at the FTC, argued that in both the Chevron-Hess and Exxon-Pioneer cases, there was “no reason to believe the law has been violated.”

    Also, go fuck yourself. Why?

    Gee go figure, Republican Melissa Holyoak

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Holyoak

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    There are conspiracies after all, but they’re just the usual ‘capitalist assholes screw the rest of us over’ kind rather than the ‘three-assed aliens kidnapped me and forced me to watch naked while they fed pineapple on a pizza to my dog’ kind.

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    Poor environmentalists don’t know what to do about this news!

    More expensive gas makes everything more expensive

    Cheaper gas means people burn more of it which is bad for the environment