[1]John Fetterman



Hi John, it’s
John.

In PA + across the country, people are getting squeezed,
John. We’re paying more at the grocery store,
more at the pump, and more almost everywhere. 📈📈📈

Of course, my opponent, millionaire celebrity Mehmet Oz, doesn’t feel a
change in price when he’s filling up his gas tank, if he even pumps his
own gas at all (they don’t let you do that in Oz’s native New Jersey). He
doesn’t have to worry about his gas or grocery bill, and doesn’t even
notice if it’s more than it used to be. 

When I fill up my Dodge RAM, it’s costing a *hell* of a lot more than it
did a year ago.

When Gisele + I go shopping for groceries at Giant Eagle, almost
everything we buy costs more.

So many families are dealing with this. In May, the Consumer Price Index
saw the largest jump in consumer prices in 41 years, with inflation at
8.6% compared to the previous year. Inflation is hitting families across
the commonwealth. 

But what’s happening isn’t just random. It’s plain wrong.

Let’s talk about gas prices. Just last week, gas prices hit a record high
of $5.07 per gallon in Pennsylvania, an outrageously high price that is
impacting families across Pennsylvania.

But the truth is, if it wasn’t for the greed of oil companies, prices
likely wouldn’t be this high.

This past week, crude oil was going for around $120 a barrel — the highest
price we've seen since mid-2014. But back then, a gallon of gas only cost
about $3.50.

Oil companies don’t need to be charging this much for gas — they’re just
doing it to make excess profits. 💰💰💰

While people across Pennsylvania are paying more than $5 a gallon for gas,
companies such as Shell, Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil are all raking in
record-breaking profits, lining their CEOs’ and shareholders’ pockets. In
just the first three months of 2022, 28 of the largest oil and gas
producers made over $100 billion in profits.

It’s hard to even conceptualize how much money that is. 

But don’t just take it from me, take it from the companies themselves.
Chevron says the company is “generating excess cash”; Exxon says it’s
getting an “advantage from the market”; and BP says that the rising price
of oil is helping its bottom line.

What does that actually look like? In the past year, Exxon’s profits
doubled; Shell’s tripled; and Chevron’s quadrupled.

That’s what I mean by record profits.

It’s gross, and *deeply* unpatriotic, for the big oil companies to be
rolling around in cash while charging us $5 per gallon for gas.

Instead of raising costs at the pump, these oil companies should be
working to help drive prices down, even if it means their CEOs make a
little bit less. Or — God forbid — just make the same millions of dollars
as they made last year. 🙄

And if we’re going to be serious about bringing down gas prices, we need
to suspend the federal gas tax to provide immediate relief for people at
the pump. We should also continue to use American oil — and produce and
invest in more American energy.

But inflation isn’t only impacting us at the pump. It’s everywhere. So
it’s not just energy we should be making here at home. It’s everything.

More American energy, more American manufacturing, more American goods,
and more American jobs. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

We should be ramping up production across industries, increasing capacity
+ supply to bring down prices across the board.

Making more stuff here in America would mean prices wouldn’t spike every
time there’s a problem overseas. We don’t need to be outsourcing any more
jobs + production to China. and we don’t need to be shouldering the burden
when other countries enter into conflicts or declare deranged wars, such
as Russia’s Vladimir Putin did in Ukraine, which contributed to prices
skyrocketing.

We can use American energy to drive down prices at the gas pump for
American workers, and we can use American workers to drive down the price
of everything, for everyone.

This isn’t a radical proposal. It’s basic common sense.

Pennsylvania’s workers can compete with anyone in the world. We can do it
all right here: drive down prices, create good-paying union jobs, and
finally stop our dependence on foreign sources of energy and production.

But here’s the catch, John: To
get these common-sense solutions, we need real leaders who get it. And
let’s be clear: Mehmet Oz is not connected to the struggles that
Pennsylvanians are facing every day. He’s a millionaire television doctor
who is a resident of New Jersey. While paying an extra $10, $20 or $30 for
gas means nothing to him, it matters to the rest of us.

Pennsylvania deserves better. We deserve a senator who actually gets it, a
real Pennsylvanian who understands the pain that families are feeling
across this commonwealth.

We need real solutions — not a celebrity vanity project — because right
now, Pennsylvania families can’t afford anything less.

[ [link removed] ]John, make
a donation of any amount today to help defeat Dr. Oz and send me to the
U.S. Senate. Your donation comes with a promise: I will fight like *hell*
for you + your family — and that includes bringing down sky-high prices.



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Thanks,

John




 


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