“We are violating every aspect of life by turning everything into a ripoff because we have adopted the view that insatiable individualistic greed must run the world. We are living in a very dangerous age in which insatiably greedy men are prepared to sacrifice anybody’s health and tranquility to satisfy their own insatiable greed for money and power. I am aghast at what selfishness, and the drive for power have done to our society.” – Carroll Quigley
On Sunday morning I was driving to my son’s house in the Manayunk section of Philly. I was picking him up for Mother’s day at our house because his pickup truck had crapped out last week. As I was driving on Henry Ave. I saw something I had never seen in my entire life. I passed a Sunoco station charging $5.00 a gallon for regular gas. That triggered my curiosity. How come I had never seen a gas price of $5.00, when a barrel of oil hit $147 in July 2008 and $139 in March 2022?
According to the government apparatchiks and their propaganda mouthpieces in the mainstream media, the price of oil last week was $95 per barrel. The national average price for a gallon of gas is $4.50. In PA it is $4.67. Now the smelly part. I went back and checked the average price for a gallon of gas in July 2008, when oil was $147 per barrel. Shockingly, it was $4.10. Then I checked March 2022 when oil was $139 per barrel, and gas was $4.17 per gallon.
Something is fundamentally wrong, corrupt, and suspicious about the price of oil being reported everyday by the government and media, and the price us peasants are paying at the pump to fill up our automobiles, to go to our jobs, and try and earn a living, while government/Fed created inflation degrades our standard of living, making it impossible to get ahead.
I have my suspicions regarding this pricing anomaly. The price of oil is being artificially suppressed by Trump draining our Strategic Petroleum Reserve (remember Trump screaming about Biden doing the same thing) and selling it on the world market. He is not using the SPR to reduce our gas prices. Why is that? Oil prices are also being suppressed by China using their reserves, rather than buying on the market.
Then there is Bessent and his band of market manipulators at the Treasury, wading into the futures markets whenever the price goes over $100 a barrel and slamming it down with fake trades. And, of course, the best market manipulator on earth – Donald J. Trump – declares an imminent agreement on ending his war whenever he needs a $10 drop in a barrel of oil. He gets lower oil prices and his insider buddies and family members he tipped off, make hundreds of millions by shorting oil. Win, win.
So, if oil prices are really 30% lower than the previous spikes in 2008 and 2022, why are we paying 10% more for a gallon of gas than we did back then. If the math was consistent, a gallon of gas should be closer to $3 a gallon than $5 a gallon. Are the oil companies using this war as an excuse to gouge us? Why isn’t Trump berating their CEOs and demanding lower prices? Or, is this just part of the plan? Refineries are suddenly blowing up in the U.S. and all over the world. Trump downplays the soaring gas prices and recommends we drive downhill to save money.
The purposefully created war in the Middle East, designed to close the Strait of Hormuz, plus the insane rollout of unfeasible mega data centers, re-ignition of another fake pandemic, acceleration of government debt spending, increased pumping of the stock and real estate bubbles, and uni-party agreement to let illegals vote and continue to drain our depleted social welfare system, all add up to confirmation of the globalist billionaire plan for their AI driven techno-gulag world where they own everything, we own nothing, and we beg for their mercy and sustenance once they demolish the existing system and take our lifelong savings.
Not much has changed regarding human nature in the last four centuries since Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and declared “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. Systematic corruption, moral decay, dishonest leadership, and the hidden agendas of the rich and powerful are what drive the world today, as they did in 1600. The next time you fill-up, remember this is no accident. This is part of their plan to impoverish and demoralize you. These are evil men and only a violent counter response can offer humanity a chance. I don’t see the i-gadget distracted ignorant masses rising up any time soon. So it goes.
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https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/12/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-america/