Not a message most people want to hear or even believe, but President Biden said it anyway. According to the Commander-in-chief, gas prices must remain high for as long as it takes to defeat Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. How long could that be, exactly? Nobody has a clue, especially not Joe Biden.
Beyond the premise, which itself is faulty, Biden has once again passed the blame for his failed energy policies to Russia’s war in Ukraine. It has nothing to do with Biden’s anti-petroleum agenda of killing pipelines, ending federal oil leases, and hating the entire industry, it’s all Putin’s fault!
Some people may not financially make it through “as long as it takes”:
Americans agree that Putin is a monster that should be countered and Ukraine is the victim here. However, should we continue fighting a proxy war with Russia “as long as it takes” to drive Putin out of Ukraine? Most Americans would say “nope”:
A reporter at a NATO summit press conference in Madrid asked Biden how long it’s fair “to expect American drivers and drivers around the world to pay that premium for this war,” referencing Ukraine.
“As long as it takes, so Russia cannot, in fact, defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine,” Biden said.
National average gas prices have topped $5 a gallon this month—a new record, despite Biden’s historically large release of national reserves earlier this year. Biden has called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months to help alleviate the economic burden to consumers, but has encountered resistance from his own party.
When you check in with them, Americans don’t seem to be on board.
Very few are swallowing the “Putin price hike” nonsense anymore. That lasted about a day before Americans recalled that inflation and gas prices were rising steadily well before Putin started rolling tanks in Ukraine.
The current economic situation sits squarely on Biden’s shoulders so he’s still using the ongoing Ukraine-Russia ground war as an escape hatch from his own failures.
Just this week Biden hit a new fresh low in the RCP average of presidential approval polls. Blaming Putin and again passing the buck won’t do anything to help build confidence among the American people that Biden has seen the light and may change course.
Biden has also started tossing out bald-faced lies about other countries having higher inflation rates than the United States:
The AP asked Biden who is really responsible.
“If it’s my fault, why is it the case in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is higher? You ask yourself that?” he said. “I’m not being a wise guy.”
Not so says every economic stat from other industrialized countries. It’s true, some other countries are close, and the UK may be matching us, but plenty of other industrialized countries are seeing much lower inflation rates:
The United States has been especially hit under Biden’s leadership, and statements about paying high gas prices “as long as it takes” speak to how out of touch the president is with the reality of household budgets across the country.
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