Trump says Russia, Ukraine agreed to spare energy sites; weeks later G7 drains 100 million barrels anyway

The Fixer A campaign. Now that's a word I understand — give me a campaign fund and a flag, and I will have the boiler fixed by Thursday.

Now comes the part the house will be looking for: a vote, a resignation, a market correction, something that actually lowers the price. There is no such part; the hundred million barrels are what blame is instead of.

The Punk A flag won't fix the boiler. I could have it in pieces by Thursday without any fund at all, and call that the market correction.

Across the water, the Irish broadcaster RTÉ asked, in its own headline, "How is the EU dealing with energy price shocks?", and set out the choices open to governments trying to ease the pressure on households. One of those choices the EU had already taken, in December of 2022, when its member states agreed a gas price cap to limit exactly this kind of spike.

The Hippie Pieces by Thursday. That's just the boiler finishing what the damp started, and nobody's capped the pressure on this house either.

Here is the dish turned over and looked at underneath: the Treasury Secretary named the strikes; he did not name the cap his own allies had already written, in 2022, for this exact shock.

The Fixer Say what you like about the damp, nobody's named a cap on the rent in this house, and I would sell the formula if anyone here could write it down.

It serves the households still paying the pump price either way; the barrels buy time, not a lower cause. The bill goes to whoever fills the tank next.

The Poet Sell the formula if you like; I have been filling the immersion tank out of my own pocket since the meter went, and nobody has called that a crisis.