We saw during the pandemic as price per barrel of oil leveled off, price at the pump per gallon of gas continued to rise and rise and rise. Everybody knew that we were being gouged. Everybody knew that record profits were being scored by the oil companies, the gas companies. Everybody knows that they're continuing to make very handsome profits. And people know that this executive that you singled out, that you caught conspiring with OPEC is worth over $200 million. (02:47–02:55)
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Asserts that oil and gas companies were making record profits.
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