{"id":100,"date":"2024-09-18T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2024-09-18T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:05:03","slug":"remember-when-oil-prices-were-as-high-as-snoop-dog-that-was-from-record-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/2024\/09\/18\/remember-when-oil-prices-were-as-high-as-snoop-dog-that-was-from-record-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when oil prices were as high as Snoop Dog &#8211; that was from record profits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The oil companies have had record profits for several years now, that means the price of gas is very high, compared to the costs they pay to make it.  That is not from \u201cinflation \u201c they are literally making you pay through the nose, because they can.  Part of that is they are close to monopolies, so you can\u2019t get gas anywhere for cheaper <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WAKE UP AMERICA!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197-768x1663.png 768w, https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197-946x2048.png 946w, https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_8197.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bb1d3b4c0fbe1ebae32de6ee462a4f5242b38568d7c4f8e43165f8682fc1724e?s=48&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bb1d3b4c0fbe1ebae32de6ee462a4f5242b38568d7c4f8e43165f8682fc1724e?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' \/><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">Mr Big Britches<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-09-18T01:04:10+00:00\">September 18, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oil companies have had record profits for several years now, that means the price of gas is very high, compared to the costs they pay to make it. That is not from \u201cinflation \u201c they are literally making you pay through the nose, because they can. Part of that is they are close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"1","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[38,39],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-poor-respresentation","category-economics","tag-monopoly-power-over-markets","tag-record-profits-mean-price-gouging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebastard.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}