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  • Chevron Chief Financial Officer Eimear Bonner told CNBC she expects U.S. gasoline prices to fall.
  • Her comments come shortly after Trump accused Big Oil of “gouging” consumers by failing to lower gasoline prices in line with the recent decline in oil prices.
  • The U.S. president said prices should be at $2.25 per gallon “and we are higher than that.
 

Trump turns on big oil donors who spent nearly $100 million to get him elected—now he wants the DOJ to investigate them for price gouging​


Oil and gas chiefs may have quietly cracked a smile when Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Oil billionaire Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, called it “the most important election in our lifetime” as he made calls urging energy executives to donate to Trump’s campaign. Vicki Hollub, then-CEO of Occidental Petroleum, also called Trump’s win “very positive” for the oil and gas sector. And for his part, Trump similarly wooed the industry during the campaign, pledging environmental rollbacks and lax tax structures.

But the special relationship between the president and the country’s fossil fuel industry has been frosty as of late. After months of increased gas prices and concerns over inflation and affordability, Trump has started pointing fingers at some of his closest industry backers, who courted him just years earlier. Writing in a Truth Social post Wednesday morning, Trump seemed to blame the industry for the sky-high gas prices Americans are feeling at the pump.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...or-price-gouging/ar-AA26yn6v?ocid=socialshare
 
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