{"id":66068,"date":"2026-11-07T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=66068"},"modified":"2026-11-07T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:51:27","slug":"i-hate-to-be-cynical-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=66068","title":{"rendered":"I Hate To Be Cynical, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/05\/mission-accomplished-as-expected-gas-and-diesel-prices-begin-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article about the price of gasoline and diesel fuel. The article notes that as soon as the election was over the price of gasoline and diesel dropped rapidly. So what was the increase over the last month really about (the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz was at prewar levels)?<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>You can actually watch\/see the prices dropping via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GAS BUDDY Here<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of the price increase was driven by market manipulation designed to influence the U.S. political outcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The western market \u2018justification\u2019 per se\u2019 was the Iran war and the oil disruption from the Strait of Hormuz, but that\u2019s not what drove up the price.\u00a0 The timing of the drop tells you the story that many deniers maintained for the past several months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Additionally, we can now watch as Zelenskyy stops targeting Russian oil refineries, again removing one of the justifications that was being used by the \u201cmarket speculators\u201d who were intentionally driving up the price.\u00a0 Zelenskyy will justify the sudden shift in drone targeting by using the ever-present, and always Machiavellian, magnanimous explanation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As the Ukraine and Russian teams meet with U.S. intermediaries in Abu Dhabi next week, Volodymyr Zelensky will claim his instruction to stop targeting oil refineries shows his commitment to a ceasefire and peace talks. However, if you have watched events closely and tracked the narrative and the assembly behind it, you will see the truth and timing behind events.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>There is no longer a need to target refineries because the energy market speculators are going to dial back the upward pressure and allow prices to drop.\u00a0 Vladimir Putin was correct when <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/13\/president-vladimir-putin-explains-why-nato-wants-a-war-against-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he said<\/a>, \u201c<em>How, in fact, is the price of gas formed on the European exchanges? It is not determined by producers, but by exchange traders.\u201d <\/em>{<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/13\/president-vladimir-putin-explains-why-nato-wants-a-war-against-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Deep<\/a>}<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>People are only now just beginning to realize what folks like you and me have been outlining for months, this energy crisis was a justification for upward price pressure. There is no \u2018free market\u2019 factor in this system. The output never changed but the prices skyrocketed; the \u2018speculators\u2019 made billions from the manipulation, the energy companies banked the profits and the geopolitical stakeholders benefited from the political consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Accepting this reality is why <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/good-news-diesel-and-gasoline-prices-set-to-collapse-in-roughly-60-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we were able to predict<\/a> the exact moment when fuel prices would begin a precipitous drop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have been played. Prepare for the Democrats to take credit for the roaring economy we are going to see in the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about the price of gasoline and diesel fuel. The article notes that as soon as the election was over the price of gasoline and diesel dropped rapidly. So what was the increase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=66068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20219,8315,20486,1663,11430,18907],"class_list":["post-66068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diesel-prices","tag-gasoline-prices","tag-russian-oil-refineries","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66069,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66068\/revisions\/66069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}