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Donald Trump's final year as President was 2020. The average closing price of oil that year was $39.68 a barrel. The year before that it had been 56.99 a barrel. At one point this past week oil was trading as high as $138 a barrel. That's a ridiculously steep increase, a huge hit on every Mom that drives her children to school, to every truck driver delivering food to your local grocery store and to every delivery of all those items Amazon drops on your front doorstep.
There is an old phrase out there among those who like to smugly remind you they were right all along that goes something like this: "I don't mean to say I told you so, but..." which is inevitably followed by gloating that they were indeed correct all along.