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Anyone in the country who buys gas benefits from lower gas prices. That includes a lot of poor people.

My mom lives in upstate New York, in a low income area. People there are very negatively impacted by the increase gas prices right now.

If you have free time to read and post on hn, you may be benefiting from the status quo.

“Yet you participate in society” is a very low-effort retort to the very real concern of Big Oil and its corruption and warmongering.

I can see how you might interpret my post that way, but it was not the point I was making.

No need to be pedantic. "We" as in the American people, as represented by their democratically elected representatives.

If you find fault with it, you have you voice (albeit a very quiet one) via your right to a vote.