U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he “called up” OPEC and told the cartel that they have to bring gasoline prices down. “The gasoline prices are coming down. I called up OPEC. I said, ’You’ve got to bring them down. You’ve got to bring them down’, and gasoline’s coming down,” CNBC quoted President Trump as telling reporters en route to an event in Indiana. I wasn’t immediately clear what President Trump was referring to when he said that he had “called up” OPEC. The U.S. president has often targeted OPEC on Twitter with direct calls on the producer group to “increase the flow of Oil” or to “take it easy” with the production cuts, because, President Trump says, “oil prices are too high.” Earlier this week, when the U.S. announced that it was ending sanction waivers for all Iranian oil buyers when they expire early next month, […]