{"id":1425782,"date":"2022-04-08T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425782"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:15:21","slug":"gop-rep-pfluger-govt-attempt-to-seize-control-of-oil-industry-a-war-on-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-pfluger-govt-attempt-to-seize-control-of-oil-industry-a-war-on-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Pfluger: Gov&#039;t Attempt to Seize Control of Oil Industry a &#039;War on Capitalism&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-rep-pfluger-govt-attempt-to-seize-control-of-oil-industry-a-war-on-capitalism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425782&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Friday on Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cVarney &#038; Company,\u201d Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) reacted to Democrats arguing that the oil companies are to be blamed for the high gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>Pfluger argued that the government attempting to control the oil industry was not only a \u201cwar on fossil fuels\u201d but also a \u201cwar on capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After highlighting that Pfluger represented \u201cthe biggest underground lake of oil in the nation,\u201d host Stuart Varney asked the congressman, \u201c[W]hat do you think when oil companies \u2026 are getting blamed for high gas prices?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWell, Stu, it\u2019s unbelievable that they are doubling down at this point in time where we have a worldwide crisis,\u201d Pfluger replied. \u201cAnd the questions that were asked this week [indicate] just how little my colleagues on the other side of the aisle know about not just oil and gas but about commerce suggesting that they are somehow manipulating and gouging the prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s go back 20 months ago and remember we had negative prices,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe price for a barrel was negative. And now to suggest that the government should somehow control private industry \u2014 it\u2019s not just a war on fossil fuels. It\u2019s a war on commerce. It\u2019s a war on capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker\u00a0on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday on Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cVarney &#038; Company,\u201d Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) reacted to Democrats arguing that the oil companies are to be blamed for the high gas prices. 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