I decided to be fair to the Democrats and research what they’re proposing to lower gas prices. Here is what ChatGPT found for me. If you have better sources, please list them in the comments, but what the notoriously left-leaning AI engine found is this:
- Prohibit exports of crude oil, gasoline, and diesel;
- Tax oil-company windfall profits and rebate the money to households;
- Create an FTC unit specifically to monitor fuel markets for manipulation or fraudulent behavior, increase transparency;
- Restoring clean-energy tax credits, speeding permitting, expanding transmission and storage, making large data centers pay more of the costs they impose on the electricity grid, and strengthening consumer protections against energy-price increases.
What do you notice in these measures? Trump is already proposing to ban diesel sales overseas and send dividends to voters. This takes care of numbers 1 and 2. Number 3 is create more bureaucracy.
Number 4 is go back to the Green New Deal.
If people are planning to vote Democrat over high gas prices, which is a very legitimate concern, can they please point out which of these measures proposed by the Democrats to address the issue makes them confident that they will manage to tackle it?
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