Sometimes President Donald Trump does something good.

On July 7, Trump’s administration launched the Freedom Fuel Network – a collection of 25 gas stations across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Fuel at any of these stations is $3.47 a gallon – 32 cents less than the national average that day.

“The administration is not involved in the company, nor has the administration given the company any funding. There is no other entity or person subsidizing the lower gasoline costs," a White House spokesman said. "This retailer is taking the lead, others should follow.”

Surprising even myself, I don’t hate this initiative. Perhaps that’s because it doesn’t look like the typical capitalist framework Republican legislation works within.

In fact, it might even be more akin to socialism. It sure sounds like it, considering that Freedom Fuel involves manipulating the market to make a product cheaper for consumers. It seems like the kind of thing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would support – not Trump.

Freedom Fuel is even bringing these gas stations to the largely blue areas surrounding Philadelphia, like Lansdowne, whose county went for Democratic........

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