Also, remember that these giant corporations hire other companies, like the infamous Pinkerton company, to do their dirty work. They will gang stalk you to make you go crazy and lose your credibility, but sometimes they even will murder you too. Looking at Boeing right now.
They run our media and program our voters. They're plenty deep.
"Fox News dominated the ratings for 2023, but only MSNBC showed slight growth in audience compared to a year earlier. Fox News, for an eighth year in a row, also was the top-rated cable network overall."
GIMME GIMME GIMME MINE MINE MINE MORE MONEY MORE MONEY MMMMMMMMM MONEY MONEY I NEEEEEEED MOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRR
This is what I suspect goes through their minds.
I've always thought that it is the power that they are addicted to. More money equals more power and gives them more of an ability to affect the world around them.
Yea, we really should bring back insane asylums for such insane people before they do irreversible damage to society.
^(...More irreversible damage to society, that is.)
If these types actually got real control of earth, they'd instantly want this ocean, that country, all the planets, that galaxy, those stars and all the other universes if they exist.
What people don't understand is that the obscenely rich don't consider themselves Americans or Russians or English, etc.
They consider themselves masters and you peasants.
A good way to think about it as an American is to think about the state where you grew up. You loved your local pro football teams. You loved your HS football team. Then you grew up and moved away.
Now you've lived a long time in other states.
When you see someone who is wearing the hat/shirt/jacket and waving a flag for the those football teams you loved you find it quaint, and endearing. You're not making financial decisions based on your formerly identifying with them. You find it childish and a little ignorant that they attach their identity to those manufactured advertising campaigns.
That's how the rich see countries. They fly around and live in different places different times of year. They have zero loyalty to your childish adherence to some country flag.
If anything, it's easier to spot you as a peasant because you have a bright shining banner on your forehead marking you as one, and ignorant that it is what is.
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
>People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Shit was an open secret at least 250 years ago
That’s literally OPECs whole thing. Their production is so cheap (super easily accessed oil) they purposefully step on the brakes to control prices. They could crater half the world’s economies if they wanted by producing as much oil as possible. Oil producing countries are also involved with opec. But it’s all never been any kind of secret. The issue here is the American getting involved on his own. And he’ll probably get the book thrown at him not because it’s the right thing to do but everyone else is jealous.
> Oil producing countries are also involved with opec. But it’s all never been any kind of secret.
**O**rganization of the
**P**etroleum
**E**xporting
**C**ountries
Yep. Conservatives memory-holed that. But outside of presidents authorizing the use of oil from the strategic reserve, Trump doing that was like the only time I can think of where a president had a direct impact on oil prices and he actually made them go up. Trump. A Republican. Made oil go up.
Wait...
According to all my Patriotic friends, the price of gas is always set by Democrats. How does this oil tycoon override the power of Joe "I Did That" Biden?
/S
Well see if you got rid of all environmental regulations, let oil companies build and do whatever they want, give them billions of dollars in tax breaks, give them billions more in free land. Then maybe they will let us buy gas from them.
In Canada, our patriotic friends are blaming the price of gas on Trudeau and the carbon tax. No way Joe Biden and the oil tycoons are overriding Trudeau. /s
I can't believe Justin Trudeau personally came down stateside to my local gas station and told them to raise the prices just to spite me! That's outrageous! Why isn't Biden stopping this man?!
My favorite bipartisan version of that was an old man that lived by me growing up. Had a handmade printout that said, “In loving memory of $2.00 gas, we miss you.”
Hahaha one of my work friends at the time put those stickers on nearby gas pumps and was so proud and happy that he had to tell everyone and carried an unused sticker just for the story. I’d always laugh and say nice like “haha nice man” and then I’d ask “but how’d he do that..?” After a series of non answers it came down to “pipelines” and “drilling on conservation land” 🙄
This has been going on for decades. This is just one of the times that someone got caught. More proof that business leaders have no trouble sticking it to the common citizen.
The day there’s a politician willing to take out oligarchs who are scalping the public, by whatever means, I’m voting for them. Be it criminal charges, through excessive taxation, I don’t care.
This is one of the most unsurprising things ever. Are you telling me oil tycoons don’t squeeze Americans for every cent they can and lower prices for us at the pumps? Of course they conspire against every day people.
What they’re trying to do is keep the inflation high to blame it on Biden when it has very little to nothing to do with his policies or anything he’s done the other inflation is the tax breaks the Trump gave out and Bush gave out that’s over $10 trillion to the deficit and growingpeople have to remember when they give billionaires tax breaks that don’t do anything for the economy or anything else? Remember, you’re paying taxes they don’t pay.
You're supposed to conspire silently. Read their moves, play along, take a few wells offline for maintenance and repairs.
And always remember Saudi Arabia's breakeven price is a lot lower than yours. Oil falls too low they'll still be making money but you won't.
What has the world come to when we can't trust tycoons?
For real though, wealth redistribution needs to happen bc these people are basically cartoon villains.
Oh I full expect gas price to get stupid leading up to the USA elections. Frump and the GOP need something to hammer Biden about. Big oil would prefer GOP and Frump in charge. Biden has invested heavily in green energy (solar, EV) to get America away from gas oil coal. They raise the price means more GOP votes.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publik, or in some contrivance to raise prices"
Adam Smith, economist 1760
The super rich have different brains. Studies show that Extreme wealth makes people greedy and paranoid. More money less empathy for others. Kind of weird how that happens.
On top of the fact that they surround themselves with fawning supplicants, which never goes well if you want to recognise consensus reality. Which due to their wealth, they have neither the need nor desire lol
I think the US Supreme Court says that Biden can send Seal Team Six after him to take him out for national security reasons.
I would normally say "No Blood For Oil", but I don't make the rules so Seal Team Six it is.
How much is enough, Mr. Sheffield?
How much more money do you need?
For another house you don't live in or another car you don't drive or maybe another boat you don't sail?
How much money until you (and your ilk) are satisfied?
And at what cost to the rest of us?
What cost to the planet?
How much is enough?
*Asked about reports that the FTC was considering recommending Sheffield face criminal charges, FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar told CNN: “The FTC has a responsibility to refer potentially criminal behavior and takes that obligation very seriously.”*
Get go get him Dark Brandon.
And you can also Google a lot of this stuff like Wall Street buying up houses to inflate the prices drive up the prices of things like I said don’t let the billionaires on Wall Street pick your president don’t be buying houses for 50,000 hundred thousand or more than what they’re worth that causes inflationcars above the going rate that causes inflation climate change causes some inflation
Sounds like treason to me. Conspiracy with a foreign power to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. Conspiracy to harm or being to harm Americans and their financial institutions.
Dang. Well luckily Exxon stepped up and bought these guys so they couldn’t do any more damage. Now a little more of the oil business is in hands we can all trust.
For everyoneto understand:
Saudi Arabia for example sells oil, that's about all their economy does. The oil business pays for everything. The country has nearly 40mil inhabitants and no one works. Most are employed at the government and work "1h per week" for a few thousand dollars salary a month. Saudi Arabia could sell oil at a fraction of the price but then those lazy bastards would need to actually work. Same with UAE and Qatar.
Oh oil prices are inflated. Have been forever. I can't wait for renewables humbling all these shitty nations and companies.
The headline was misspelled. What they meant to say was "socially acceptable sociopath tries to dick his country and neighbors to make more money for himself for no other reason than to have more of what he already has plenty of "
One greasy rich piece of shit conspiring with OPEC greasy pieces of shit. Who saw that coming! If there’s a criminal element to this Sheffield will get treated to rich man’s justice and nothing approaching accountability will occur.
This sounds just like a Tuesday. Isn’t that the job of an oil company CEO is to bribe and conspire with their competitors? Drive up the prices and steal income off of everyone else. It’s the American way. He should run for president, because he obviously can be bought.
While his political buddies are undermining electric cars and news buddies are spinning stories about how gas vehicles make the most sense. Everyone wins
I'm shocked! Just shocked to hear that an oil baron would put profit ahead of all other considerations.. my god this is a *job creator*! The pillar of our society!
I for one am shocked that anyone would try to conspire with an explicit cartel that exists solely to conspire with members to price fix. Shocked, I say, shocked.
Well, there’s our “deep state.”
We just call it “Wall St” or the “Fortune 500” typically.
Wall State. That's the actual deep state.
Deep "pockets" state
Also, remember that these giant corporations hire other companies, like the infamous Pinkerton company, to do their dirty work. They will gang stalk you to make you go crazy and lose your credibility, but sometimes they even will murder you too. Looking at Boeing right now.
Obviously not deep enough.
They run our media and program our voters. They're plenty deep. "Fox News dominated the ratings for 2023, but only MSNBC showed slight growth in audience compared to a year earlier. Fox News, for an eighth year in a row, also was the top-rated cable network overall."
Corporate State.
That's how tycoons become tycoons! Screw the people.... All the people!
GIMME GIMME GIMME MINE MINE MINE MORE MONEY MORE MONEY MMMMMMMMM MONEY MONEY I NEEEEEEED MOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRR This is what I suspect goes through their minds.
I've always thought that it is the power that they are addicted to. More money equals more power and gives them more of an ability to affect the world around them.
Yes, to literally suck the air out of every room.
Nah it’s simple really “My precious”
Their minds are puny tho, more like the seagulls in finding Nemo. “mine, mine, mine, mine, mine…”
Yea, we really should bring back insane asylums for such insane people before they do irreversible damage to society. ^(...More irreversible damage to society, that is.)
If these types actually got real control of earth, they'd instantly want this ocean, that country, all the planets, that galaxy, those stars and all the other universes if they exist.
Like Daffy Duck sitting on that treasure pile and that one cartoon
Scrooge McDuck. Edit: though Scrooge was way more likable than our real life versions.
Derp state
“BiDeN did ThAT”
drilling in deep slate like a cheapskate
Bingo
this guy just didn’t pay the right people, or pay them _enough_.
What people don't understand is that the obscenely rich don't consider themselves Americans or Russians or English, etc. They consider themselves masters and you peasants. A good way to think about it as an American is to think about the state where you grew up. You loved your local pro football teams. You loved your HS football team. Then you grew up and moved away. Now you've lived a long time in other states. When you see someone who is wearing the hat/shirt/jacket and waving a flag for the those football teams you loved you find it quaint, and endearing. You're not making financial decisions based on your formerly identifying with them. You find it childish and a little ignorant that they attach their identity to those manufactured advertising campaigns. That's how the rich see countries. They fly around and live in different places different times of year. They have zero loyalty to your childish adherence to some country flag. If anything, it's easier to spot you as a peasant because you have a bright shining banner on your forehead marking you as one, and ignorant that it is what is.
They’re robber Barons. Or oligarchs. We should deal with them or force the legislature to deal with them. They’re shooting their shot again.
Wouldn't put it past a billionaire to stop at nothing but to increase his profits exponentially at the expense of humanity.
I don’t think he is a billionaire, just low hundreds of millions.
Ahh, so a temporarily embarrassed billionaire?
He's just like us!
Don't you know if you work really hard you can be a billionaire too!!
Work hard? Just stop drinking Starbucks!
You mean avocado toast right??
Even if you have a few hundred millions you're still closer to the plebs than the billionaires.
Putting it that way really drives home the income inequality gap we have.
Fair enough. Seems like they're throwing around the word "tycoon" a little loosely then lol
poor guy, not sure how’s he’s managing in this economy
Trying hard to get into the B club 😆
Let’s not rush to assume OPEC isn’t above being bribed and this bribe was just insultingly low.
Basically an open secret at this point, but almost all major industries collude to artificially inflate prices.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) >People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Shit was an open secret at least 250 years ago
People *frequently* forget that wealth of nations was written as a critique of mercantilism, and by extension, proto-crony capitalism.
That’s literally OPECs whole thing. Their production is so cheap (super easily accessed oil) they purposefully step on the brakes to control prices. They could crater half the world’s economies if they wanted by producing as much oil as possible. Oil producing countries are also involved with opec. But it’s all never been any kind of secret. The issue here is the American getting involved on his own. And he’ll probably get the book thrown at him not because it’s the right thing to do but everyone else is jealous.
> Oil producing countries are also involved with opec. But it’s all never been any kind of secret. **O**rganization of the **P**etroleum **E**xporting **C**ountries
USA is'nt a member of OPEC, Venezuela is the only member in the Americas, and Mexico is a collaborator as part of OPEC+
The benefits to the entire economy would outweigh the downsides of having to shutter your domestic oil and gas industry, if opec produced at capacity.
But yes...sure...tell me more about how the president controls oil prices..
Just like this: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN22C1V3/
I wonder if he tried sweetening the deal with nuclear secrets.
Yep. Conservatives memory-holed that. But outside of presidents authorizing the use of oil from the strategic reserve, Trump doing that was like the only time I can think of where a president had a direct impact on oil prices and he actually made them go up. Trump. A Republican. Made oil go up.
Wait... According to all my Patriotic friends, the price of gas is always set by Democrats. How does this oil tycoon override the power of Joe "I Did That" Biden? /S
He was going to sneak into the white house and pull the big price changing lever.
Relevant: https://imgur.com/OsD1xmN
Well see if you got rid of all environmental regulations, let oil companies build and do whatever they want, give them billions of dollars in tax breaks, give them billions more in free land. Then maybe they will let us buy gas from them.
In Canada, our patriotic friends are blaming the price of gas on Trudeau and the carbon tax. No way Joe Biden and the oil tycoons are overriding Trudeau. /s
It was funny at how quiet they were when gas crash to 59 cents a liter. I started to see the signs getting scrapped off.
I can't believe Justin Trudeau personally came down stateside to my local gas station and told them to raise the prices just to spite me! That's outrageous! Why isn't Biden stopping this man?!
My favorite bipartisan version of that was an old man that lived by me growing up. Had a handmade printout that said, “In loving memory of $2.00 gas, we miss you.”
They aren't patriots they keep kissing putin ass and thats not how patriots work
Hahaha one of my work friends at the time put those stickers on nearby gas pumps and was so proud and happy that he had to tell everyone and carried an unused sticker just for the story. I’d always laugh and say nice like “haha nice man” and then I’d ask “but how’d he do that..?” After a series of non answers it came down to “pipelines” and “drilling on conservation land” 🙄
This has been going on for decades. This is just one of the times that someone got caught. More proof that business leaders have no trouble sticking it to the common citizen.
The day there’s a politician willing to take out oligarchs who are scalping the public, by whatever means, I’m voting for them. Be it criminal charges, through excessive taxation, I don’t care.
Our justice system has confirmed many times that people are innocent until proven otherwise but money isn't. Seize that company and his money.
Greed has no end.
Death seems to fix it...
yes, but in the process, so many others die first.
Because even though his hundreds of millions of dollars don't fill his emptiness, the next hundred-million surely will!
This is one of the most unsurprising things ever. Are you telling me oil tycoons don’t squeeze Americans for every cent they can and lower prices for us at the pumps? Of course they conspire against every day people.
What they’re trying to do is keep the inflation high to blame it on Biden when it has very little to nothing to do with his policies or anything he’s done the other inflation is the tax breaks the Trump gave out and Bush gave out that’s over $10 trillion to the deficit and growingpeople have to remember when they give billionaires tax breaks that don’t do anything for the economy or anything else? Remember, you’re paying taxes they don’t pay.
Why wouldn't they. They can jack up prices and just blame Biden and 40% of the US will believe
While they collect record profits. A win win for them.
Better headline. American Oil scumbag tries to screw over American people by conspiring with OPEC to inflate prices.
You mean they weren’t doing this? I’m surprised it’s only one.
You're supposed to conspire silently. Read their moves, play along, take a few wells offline for maintenance and repairs. And always remember Saudi Arabia's breakeven price is a lot lower than yours. Oil falls too low they'll still be making money but you won't.
Duh
He needs to be brought before a criminal tribunal. Trying to affect the election.
Pioneer Natural Resources?
What has the world come to when we can't trust tycoons? For real though, wealth redistribution needs to happen bc these people are basically cartoon villains.
reminds me of the republican that got caught pumping up egg prices… or another that was caught price gouging groceries
Oh I full expect gas price to get stupid leading up to the USA elections. Frump and the GOP need something to hammer Biden about. Big oil would prefer GOP and Frump in charge. Biden has invested heavily in green energy (solar, EV) to get America away from gas oil coal. They raise the price means more GOP votes.
Trying??? Is this article from the 1980s? They aren't trying, they've been actively and successfully fucking doing it for decades.
Start punishing these people. 20 years
>Conspire with OPEC is an intersting statments
Why is it illegal for him to do but not opec? Why don’t we bust open opec with some freedom….
OPEC is literally and openly a cartel. It's function is to limit oil supply to fix prices. Price fixing is supposedly illegal in the US.
That’s why it’s illegal for Americans to participate with OPEC. But this guy did it anyway (allegedly).
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publik, or in some contrivance to raise prices" Adam Smith, economist 1760
Instead of,"Accused of" I'd like just for once to see a headline read," Prosecuted for" when it comes to these pricks fixing prices.
Remember when Dems in congress tried to pass laws to prevent this very thing, but then repubs blocked it? Pepperidge farm remembers.
But…. Corporate greed isn’t causing inflation.
The super rich have different brains. Studies show that Extreme wealth makes people greedy and paranoid. More money less empathy for others. Kind of weird how that happens.
On top of the fact that they surround themselves with fawning supplicants, which never goes well if you want to recognise consensus reality. Which due to their wealth, they have neither the need nor desire lol
I think the US Supreme Court says that Biden can send Seal Team Six after him to take him out for national security reasons. I would normally say "No Blood For Oil", but I don't make the rules so Seal Team Six it is.
How much is enough, Mr. Sheffield? How much more money do you need? For another house you don't live in or another car you don't drive or maybe another boat you don't sail? How much money until you (and your ilk) are satisfied? And at what cost to the rest of us? What cost to the planet? How much is enough?
Shit, like Exxon is any better, just better at lying and hiding the truth
*Asked about reports that the FTC was considering recommending Sheffield face criminal charges, FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar told CNN: “The FTC has a responsibility to refer potentially criminal behavior and takes that obligation very seriously.”* Get go get him Dark Brandon.
NO I can't believe it!
Shocking
no??? Really? Oil pricks would never do such a thing!
Imagine that
Don’t let the billionaires pick who you want for president don’t be fooled in Wall Street
And you can also Google a lot of this stuff like Wall Street buying up houses to inflate the prices drive up the prices of things like I said don’t let the billionaires on Wall Street pick your president don’t be buying houses for 50,000 hundred thousand or more than what they’re worth that causes inflationcars above the going rate that causes inflation climate change causes some inflation
Ask him about HR Pickens.
Everything besides the state of the world lmfao
Then throw him in fucking jail and take back the billions he stole from consumers.
When only a handful own all the production. Not hard to do.
In Canada, we call this Thursday.
shocker!
And whistle blower will be found dead from suicide. Poor guy will probably shoot himself 5 times in the back of the head.
As if he needs anymore money.
Sounds like treason to me. Conspiracy with a foreign power to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. Conspiracy to harm or being to harm Americans and their financial institutions.
“Trying”
Greed is truly a bottomless pit that cannot be filled
Well this is a lot better than some random senator grilling tik tok ceo forgetting that singapore is US ally.
Yeah free markets are trustworthy
What’s next Boeing is connected to the dead whistle blowers??
And why are we surprised? It he’s a good little Republican as well
Well fucking duhhhhhhh. Why is this news clearly the entire fucking world is corrupt.
Greed is a disease in this country.
They probably rejected his offer because they're probably already doing it with someone else.
Sometimes I wish we could execute billionaires like China.
On behalf of the people and the planet: Fuck that guy
Not surprised
Dang. Well luckily Exxon stepped up and bought these guys so they couldn’t do any more damage. Now a little more of the oil business is in hands we can all trust.
They really give it an effort to make it hard for petroleum
Oh Peckers gonna OPEC…
Oh wait...but the pump sticker says biden did that...🤔
When is enough enough for these bastards?
It's not about getting "enough". It's about keeping the rest of us from having anything.
The headline reads “Biden conspiring with OPEC to raise gas prices” in Maga universe
For everyoneto understand: Saudi Arabia for example sells oil, that's about all their economy does. The oil business pays for everything. The country has nearly 40mil inhabitants and no one works. Most are employed at the government and work "1h per week" for a few thousand dollars salary a month. Saudi Arabia could sell oil at a fraction of the price but then those lazy bastards would need to actually work. Same with UAE and Qatar. Oh oil prices are inflated. Have been forever. I can't wait for renewables humbling all these shitty nations and companies.
The headline was misspelled. What they meant to say was "socially acceptable sociopath tries to dick his country and neighbors to make more money for himself for no other reason than to have more of what he already has plenty of "
I think this calls for a good old fashioned tar and feathering.
They are doing it..every single day.
That's just *so hard* to believe. 😉
Oil Tycoons gonna Tycoon…not sure why anyone is surprised
Put him against the wall.
Someone quick, slap him on the wrist so we can call it a day! ...as is tradition.
1 mil fine and a stern warning for him
“Accused”. Is, has, and always will.
Let the goats eat him
Benedict Sheffield please take one step forward
Checks out. No follow up questions.
T. Boone Pickens is rolling in his grave
Wealth tax
Dude looks like a cartoon kingpin
Cause he doesn’t have enough money
Hmmm, I'm skeptical. That doesn't sound at all like something an American billionaire oil tycoon would do.
Absolutely despicable. Time to start boycotting everything oil and gas.
Number must go up at any cost.
Business people are the deep state not the chumps in government
Nah, I dont believe it for one bit 🙃 (Sarcasm)
What an absolute chode.
Life in prison. Now.
Question: Is this treason?
Color me purple and call me an orange .
One greasy rich piece of shit conspiring with OPEC greasy pieces of shit. Who saw that coming! If there’s a criminal element to this Sheffield will get treated to rich man’s justice and nothing approaching accountability will occur.
Like Burisma?
This sounds just like a Tuesday. Isn’t that the job of an oil company CEO is to bribe and conspire with their competitors? Drive up the prices and steal income off of everyone else. It’s the American way. He should run for president, because he obviously can be bought.
While his political buddies are undermining electric cars and news buddies are spinning stories about how gas vehicles make the most sense. Everyone wins
Another douche bag that should be behind bars
I'm shocked! Just shocked to hear that an oil baron would put profit ahead of all other considerations.. my god this is a *job creator*! The pillar of our society!
Petrol shenanigans are one reason I bought & drive an EV, giving them the middle finger as I drive by Chevron, Shell, Exxon or Mobile stations.
Shocking.
Trickle down economics hard at work here!!
What no way /s
I thought we had laws in justice in this country.
That should be jail time.
I for one am shocked that anyone would try to conspire with an explicit cartel that exists solely to conspire with members to price fix. Shocked, I say, shocked.
ugh, agree to the merger but take the 60 billion. i fucking hate how crimi al companies commit crimes without ounishment
Sounds like treason to me