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Rep. Jake LaTurner

Today, the average price for a gallon of gas in Kansas is $3.10. A year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Kansas was $1.88. Thanks to POTUS's failing energy & economic policies, Kansans are paying the highest prices at the pump since the Obama Administration.

4:50 PM · Nov 15, 2021

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My wage didn't increase last year but the company I work for made billions in profit. Free market capitalism is a bitch Jake, I'm interested to hear what you would do about it.

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It was $2.67 in 2018. 🤷‍♀️ Why don't Republicans understand the basic concept of supply and demand? Are they not teaching y'all this stuff in school?

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Janine (Kansas Blue Dot)

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Or, and hear me out Jake, progress against COVID has allowed the country to open up and people are driving more, causing demand to raise prices higher than last year when we were all in our living rooms.

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Radicalized Economist

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Dis-information. Inflation across all OECD countries is at the highest rate since 2008. Is Biden responsible for all inflation around the developed world? Of course not. Trust data, not lying politicians.

Global inflation hasn't been this high since 2008 | CNN Business

Price are rising quickly across huge swaths of the developed world, with inflation in countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development surging in April to the...

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@Brad1969tinman

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Thanks to trumps failed COVID response gas was $1.88 a gallon one year ago.

@KevinRo12692619

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Dont vote Blue. Ever.

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