As crude oil prices fall but gas prices remain high, progressive lawmakers are calling for accountability for “profiteering” fossil fuel companies.
while seemingly misunderstanding that it is capitalism that has brought gas prices to where they are.
of dollars that the U.S. spends on fossil fuel subsidies, Ocasio-Cortez continued. “If fossil fuel companies didn’t have such tipped scales for them it’s very likely we’d be much further along with cheaper alternatives.” The same price-gouging methods go for prescription drug prices and housing, the lawmaker said.
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