Democrat Policies: Keystone Pipeline Would Have Delivered 830,000 Barrels of Oil a Day to US -- More than Current Daily Russian Imports of 670,000 Barrels a Day

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no one on this earth can just set a non market price without shortages and surpluses

LOL. That's only true in a competitive free market. We don't have that. Look what happened when one factory that made chlorine tablets for swimming pools had a fire and the whole country was in a chlorine shortage and the price of chlorine doubled overnight. Or when oil refiners shut down their refineries for "maintenance" to drive up the price of gas.

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That's how they manipulate the market, and one player can do it. When one player can affect prices it's not a competitive market by definition. In a competitive free market no single player has the power to affect prices at all. They could halt production and nothing would happen to prices. Ammunition manufacturers are using the lack of a competitive market against us right now, keeping the price of ammunition high for two years straight because they simply refuse to invest in additional capacity. They claim it's because of millions of new gun owners in the market for ammo and yet nobody asks them, "why the fuck aren't you building more capacity, then? If it's millions of new gun owners causing the shortages and high prices it's not temporary you greedy fucks."

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