“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” President Donald Trump wrote March 12 in a “Trash Social” post. Oil had just risen to $95 per barrel. Trump always finds a positive spin on the misery he imposes on the world.

Who are the “we”? The “we” would be the oil companies whose executives, according to Politico, were told by Trump during the 2024 campaign to raise $1 billion for him and he would serve their interests in his second term — halting nearly completed renewable energy projects and opening protected nature preserves to drilling.

Excluded from the “we” are those of us who fuel our cars, trucks, tractors, heat our houses or must fly to see sick relatives.

The other “we” — “we the people” — see an increase to our cost of living at the pump, in the grocery store, and in the cost of anything requiring oil, from building materials to products transported to our doors.

The treasure spent on the Iranian “excursion” (did Trump mean incursion?) and the blood spilled drive profits to U.S. petroleum companies (and Russia). The rest of us bear the burden.

And the Trump-Jeffrey Epstein files?

Lew Waltman

Lancaster

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