you keep dodging your ‘free market’ assertion. That’s a lie.
The supply is heavily influenced by federal government regulation, domestic policy, foreign policy, and monetary policy. Initially Whitehouse policies among other factors exacerbated constrained supplies and gas prices spiked.
You are clinging to the fact that they recently went back on their campaign promises to their base no drilling on federal land, etc and opened up the spigot on leases and permits etc. to offset the Ukrainian debacle and to likely do something about abysmal polling.
More examples of government intervention that manipulated the market- not Free market. The strategic petroleum reserve and use of it is not free market. The negotiations with Saudi Arabia and opec tour was not free market. The federal obstruction of Russian PG&E is not free market.
this is not the operation of a free market. You do not understand what a free market is. Oil and gasoline are not free market commodities.
You keep moving the argument because you probably realize you made a fallacious statement and won’t own it.