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Who is the we in that sentence?
He talks the same way about the taxes he put on so many goods - AKA, tariffs. He keeps talking about how "so much money is coming in" or whatever the fuck.
I think he talks like this because he views the taxes he raised on all of us as a slush fund he can just use to bribe whoever the fuck he wants - nevermind the actual law, or math, or the fact that it's just a tax he arbitrarily put on our goods...
When he says "we" or talks about "America winning", he means himself. He sees the rest of us as an extension of himself because he's a narcissist. So when he gets richer, his tiny brain sees it as everyone getting richer.
this is correct in a fashion. when he says "we" he means "everyone", as you say, but to him, "everyone" means him and his allies. he says "we" in this crowd of people, but the crowd of people do not understand that, to him, they are nothing but objects who are there to adore him and adulate him.
that's why he doesn't even think twice about saying these things. it literally does not occur to him that this crowd can do anything other than praise him for taking so much for himself.
some time ago, trump was about to take off with some press on the plane, and before it takes off he wished everyone a great flight, then followed up with, "You know why I say that? Because I’m on the flight. Otherwise I wouldn’t care.”
if you want a deep look into a narcissist, this is just about as raw as it gets. not just that he thinks it but that he has no qualms at all about saying it. he simply says it because he wants to and nothing else matters.
And it's not like the oil companies are making more money on this stuff. Their costs are also higher and they are passing them down the line.
Oil companies absolutely are making more money on this stuff, refiners too.
The price of oil goes up, their oil is trading at 100 instead of 70 or whatever. Refiners have upped their margins from around 15 to 100 percent on distillates too, according to a recent reuters article that the search engines won't find for me, even days after it was published. This was a couple weeks ago and they've made reference to that in several other articles.
If you don't think that domestic producers of oil are charging more solely because the foreign cost has gone up, you don't understand capitalism.