Oil Prices and How The Hell Do People Blame Their Leaders

A short video reminding us that Biden and Trudeau don't make gas prices go up, because it would seem that's a reminder people need these days.
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There's a lot people can blame their leaders for:
-Carbon taxes, which are still climbing
-The entirely ludicrous and completely unnecessary amount of monetary expansion during Covid
-Intentionally scuttling all attempts to make this portion of the tectonic plate we live on (Canada) energy independent
-The mad rush to replace our current forms of energy with Green forms
Supply and demand most certainly does play a part. But you have to remember, Capitalism is not free markets, like so many economists keep trying to pretend it is. Capitalism is -and has been since its inception- characterized by incestuous relationships between Capitalists (Factory owners, corporations, billionaires, etc) and the State. So market principles like supply and demand or marginal utility do play a part, but they're artificially skewed by Corps and the State.
However, the only blame to be laid is upon ourselves for allowing it to continue, and in most cases fervently supporting it in one form or another. Rather than arguing with each other about which 300 year old "system" would be better (Capitalism, Socialism, whatever-other-ism, and the varying levels of State intervention that come with them), perhaps we could try something new