The economy tanked in 2008 due to the housing crash.
George Bush owned a oil company called Spectrum 7 and the whole Bush family made their fortune in the oil and gas industry, so therefore Dubya wanted to cash out as much as he could before his presidency was up because shortly before the 2008 election, gas was down to around $1.50/gallon.
This is purely because US oil pumping has been decreased and the US isn't exporting any more. Less supply means higher prices
The value of gas stays (relatively) constant - you either need it or don't need it.
The value of the dollar is liquid and it's based on the value of the people. It's either used by paying useful people to be useful and it's value increases to match that of the useful people, or it's drops to that of paying for useless cunts where it starts to match the value of the useless cunts.
Just a simple typo, he meant groin economy, as in fucked.
I feel like they do that to do two things...1) line the pockets of the transporters of fuel and 2) make it impossible to pay for gas AND your mortgage so you default and the bank can acquire the property and resell to keep the vicious interest cycle going
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