That said, some commodities are going up, simply because there’s not much demand for other items. They’ll get your money any way they can. ;-)
Continue the trend by avoiding unnecessary purchases, unless you want to feed big revenues to big government. And try to find ways to become more energy independent, as large amounts of revenues are fed through energy companies and multi-energy investors.
You may be confusing cause and effect. For those few Americans who actually value and even dare to prioritize their consumption of food (e.g., corn, wheat, rice, beef, pork, chicken, milk, vegetables) and fuel (e.g., gasoline, heat, oil, natural gas, electricity), rising prices of those commodities may decrease their demand for other items. I recognize that most Americans voted enthusiastically and overwhelmingly for Barack Hussein Obama because he promised that under his Presidency, they wouldn’t be able to afford to drive automobiles, heat their abodes in the winter, subscribe to electrical services, or even eat adequately. For what else did he stand? Annihilating the next generation of Americans, born and unborn. I can’t imagine that that position attracted any significant support (but I acknowledge that unfortunately in this culture of death, it did...scary, I know).
But I submit that SOME Americans (including incidentally the overwhelming majority of Oklahomans) actually value food and fuel so intensely that when prices for those items (which we call “necessities” because we are so accustomed to opulent lifestyles) skyrocket, they curtail their purchases of other items, driving demand for those items downward. I recognize that many Americans think differently, preferring to purchase other items rather than enjoying electrical services, warm abodes in this bitter winter, and full stomachs.
Government inflation measurements exclude food and fuel because in the estimation of our betters in big government, urban consumers don’t purchase those things in significant quantity except rarely as extreme luxuries. In the heartland, however, increased food and fuel prices (caused by big government policies) drive more money into food and fuel, lessening demand for “other items,” causing the price of those “other items” to decrease (relative to food-and-fuel prices) to attract demand, in turn causing declining government inflation measurements, which we, ever focused on food and fuel excluded therefrom, disbelieve.
Should I cut back my expenses on food and fuel? Yes, absolutely; I have an overspending problem. Now can I get this “global warming” off my house to make doing so more comfortable? Perhaps not.