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Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

by The Western News
| April 19, 2024 7:00 AM

East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling:

Gas prices are rising, and, predicts historian Thom Hartmann, will likely be $6 a gallon pre-election. He suggests that would be no accident: Saudi Arabia and Russia, who want Trump back in office, are already cutting oil production. They know that higher gas prices could be an effective way to elect Donald Trump; those countries rely on many Americans’ inattention to political manipulation. 

Some history of foreign interference with gas prices:

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