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Why is Trump so desperate to raise oil prices, even though America is a net oil importer? 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/energy-environment/opec-russia-saudi-arabia-oil-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Why is he refusing to help the Post Office, which is in financial crisis? 2/ https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1248747452653584385
One answer is that in 2016 oil&gas gave 88% of its contributions to Republicans https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2020&ind=E01 while postal unions gave only 12 percent https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2020&ind=L1500 3/
And postal workers are overwhelmingly unionized https://about.usps.com/strategic-planning/cs09/CSPO_09_093.htm while mining, including oil&gas, is basically un-unionized 4/ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm
Also, the world's two top oil exporters are Saudi Arabia and Russia, so Trump is helping his favorite autocrats; meanwhile, he believes that the post office is subsidizing Jeff Bezos, whose newspaper reports uncomfortable truths 5/
I do wonder, however, if he's thought this through politically. The post office is overwhelmingly popular; if it collapses on his watch, it would hurt him 6/ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/463852-americas-most-popular-government-agency-the-postal-service
