Two months ago, amid some major discrepancies in key points, the energy market was swept with speculation that the Biden admin - in this case the Department of Energy - was publishing "very crooked numbers" to artificially represent gasoline demand as much lower than it really was in order to depress the price of oil (considering the lengths to which the Soros administration has gone to keep gas prices low ahead of the midterms, even threatening OPEC+ that it had committed a "hostile act" for daring to put its own interest ahead of the Democrats' chances of winning the midterms). What made the manipulated "data" even more absurd is that gasoline demand had somehow collapsed below levels hit in 2020 when the US economy was largely shut down by covid.