India, China, Japan, Korea, and the UK are not doing this to prop up Biden's popularity. Sometimes (nearly every time), a cigar is just a cigar.

but sometimes a cigar with 40% approval rating confirms that he is looking for re-election[1] in 2024 right before opening the oil reserve

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/22/joe-biden-in...

Voters barely remember what someone did six months ago. You honestly think they are going to remember, or care, what gas prices were 3 years before an election?

I think that by lowering gas prices he slightly increases probability of "Build Back Better" to be passed because somehow republicans and radical democrats(Manchin and others) were able to couple future spending plans with the current inflation and gas prices and sell this BS to the public.

BBB is a big win for Biden and it could help him and dems in 2022 and 2024.

Losing a war. Leaving hundreds of Americans stranded, people who helped us being slaughtered.

You don’t come back from that.

Pretty sure that war was lost a long time ago.

I thought that Obama actually won this war back in 2012 when they found and killed bin laden, no?

That was basically the only win in that war

Yeah, paying attention to a a few troubled Americans while ignoring hundreds of thousands of actual victims sounds like typical US mentality.

That war was lost on 2003. Biden finally put a fork in it

All US presidents seek reelection. This narrative has zero explanatory or predictive power.

Biden is 79 years old and he demonstrated some terrible mental health issues at times when he came out of the basement last year. it's not clear why he would seek for reelection given these conditions.

You put far too much faith in the American electorate....

The government is actually trying to do something for folks and yet they are still ungrateful

By shutting down the keystone pipeline which jump started this mess? The government doesn’t help you. You are just here, they do what is in their best interest. Big daddy government won’t solve your problems.

How do you extrapolate all that from such a simple statement?

He told Landlords that they can't charge rent anymore -- he should just tell gas stations that they can't sell gas for more than $N/gallon

> He told Landlords that they can't charge rent anymore -- he should just tell gas stations that they can't sell gas for more than $N/gallon

I strongly support this idea because the fallout will be so swift and severe that it will teach a generation of people to never do such things again.

The existing supply of price control failures is quite large. I’m guessing a strategic release of a new example will likely not have much of an impact.

It's pretty obvious that there are a lot of people who don't get it, because in many cases the consequences aren't as easy to see.

You stop landlords from collecting rent, set that precedent, and over the next few years they're going to convert rental properties into condos until rents are high enough to account for the risk of it happening again. Then anyone who can't afford to buy is paying higher rent for a generation or more. But it doesn't happen instantaneously and it's hard to trace directly to the act, so people don't understand.

Set price controls on gas and there immediately won't be gas to buy. That's something everybody is promptly going to notice.

Some people will end up with more gas than they need, others with less. It's a bad idea.

GP is well aware of that fact.

I’m fine with whatever it takes to finally take down the fossil fuel economy. There’s no more room in the atmosphere for any more additional CO2.

If you want to live like it’s 1870 go for it.