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Oil companies don't back GOP to make gas cheaper. OPEC leaders often are friendly to GOP historically, and then US oil companies do increase supply before next election to help fix it, as another trend.
What oil industry "needs" is suppressing EVs and renewables. "Woke mind virus" must be exterminated outside of US too, and woke = "radical left climate alarmists". EU and China have decreased fossil fuel use for electricity significantly this year. Especially EU, but China energy growth has been higher. China has also reduced oil use/imports. Normally, renewables progress would cut fossil fuel use even more next year, but oil industry wants Trump to extort world into climate terrorist acceptance.
The key brainworm that media plants in public is that renewable energy is not energy. Even if you love your gas guzzler, gasoline is cheaper when others have alternatives, and you and others are not forced to submit to extortionist monopolists/cartels.