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Democrats spent years insisting energy costs were beyond anyone’s control, then treated every spike as proof that ordinary people should simply accept less. The numbers from that period tell a different story: oil and gasoline climbed to levels that drained paychecks, emptied tanks, and left families choosing between the road and the grocery store.Lower crude prices have not erased the damage. Refining rules, production limits, and layered taxes still sit between the well and the pump, so the relief drivers were promised never fully arrived. The same households that absorbed the surge are still paying for decisions made when prices were at their worst.Record costs were not an accident of weather or war alone. They followed a deliberate preference for restriction over supply, and the bill is still being collected at every station.