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Gas Hits 7-Year High as Biden's 'Transitory' Inflation Drags On(WHAT?!)
townhall.com ^ | 10/6/2021 | Spencer Brown

Posted on 10/06/2021 3:39:47 PM PDT by rktman

The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States hit a seven-year high this week according to the latest data from AAA showing the going rate is $3.22 per gallon, a cost not seen since this month in 2014. In some states, the cost per gallon is even higher like in California where the average price is now $4.42. In certain metropolitan areas, gas is more than $5 per gallon.

Just one year ago, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded was only $2.18, according to AAA. The current spike in prices to near-decade highs comes amid inflation caused by the Biden administration's economic policies and busts the president's claim that rising prices are merely a "transitory" or temporary fluke caused by the economy bouncing back from impacts of the Wuhan coronavirus. Now more than eight months into Biden's administration, the president has not managed to build the economy "back better." From the gas pump to the grocery store, construction costs to rent, Americans' wallets keep taking hit after hit as a result of extended unemployment benefits, self-inflicted supply shortages, and other Biden economic policies.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; inflation; nrgindependent
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Well heck. Just buy an EV or a hybrid and POOF! Problem solved. And to think, last year we were pretty much energy independent. And most folks deigned to consider taking a vaccine that came out of the Trump house.
1 posted on 10/06/2021 3:39:47 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Gone are the days of gas wars of 15-20 cents a gallon.


2 posted on 10/06/2021 3:45:00 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: rktman
For every penny gas goes up, Biden's approval rating drops another point.

If this keeps up, the Dems will be slaughtered in the mid-terms. It's probably already past the tipping point.

3 posted on 10/06/2021 3:45:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: rktman

Gas shortages are about to return.
F Joe Biden.


4 posted on 10/06/2021 3:48:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: rktman

Ain’t seen nothing yet


5 posted on 10/06/2021 3:49:53 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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To: Mark

I remember those in ABQ in the mid 60’s time frame.


6 posted on 10/06/2021 3:50:10 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: no-to-illegals

Did they start up the busted pipe in caulifourkneeuh yet?


7 posted on 10/06/2021 3:51:07 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Voting machines ….. the new rabbit hole


8 posted on 10/06/2021 3:51:16 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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To: rktman

Don’t know


9 posted on 10/06/2021 3:52:11 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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To: no-to-illegals

Well that makes two of us too lazy to check. Anyone? Bueller? :-}


10 posted on 10/06/2021 3:53:19 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I’m sure that if inflation had suddenly jumped into double digits during President Trump’s first year in office, the entire MSM would have joined together and accepted the explanation that it was only a “transitory” form of inflation, and would have repeated that characterization every time they mentioned the subject.

Not that President Trump would ever have made such a lame attempt at an excuse.


11 posted on 10/06/2021 3:54:42 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: rktman

When one is not in control ….. anything and everything usually happens


12 posted on 10/06/2021 3:55:26 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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To: rktman

Who needs gas?

Doesn’t everybody own an E.V. by now? C’mon man!


13 posted on 10/06/2021 4:01:43 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

See post 1 this thread.


14 posted on 10/06/2021 4:04:40 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Don’t forget about the cheating.


15 posted on 10/06/2021 4:04:49 PM PDT by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Time to declare price controls on gasoline and food and rent
and heat for the home.


16 posted on 10/06/2021 4:07:19 PM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: rktman

Ain’t such a thing as inflation, as long as money printing doesn’t have to match the economic strength.

Besides,who is owed the national debt? Whoever holds the debt, will have to accept payment via more debt. Credit is the greatest invention that man has ever come up with, more important than the wheel.


17 posted on 10/06/2021 4:07:58 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Wish that were true. We are stuck with the DEMONCRATS in power until at least January of 2023. Biden’s approval rating is meaningless.


18 posted on 10/06/2021 4:10:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: tennmountainman

These leftist screw up every damn thing they put their hands to. Good grief!


19 posted on 10/06/2021 4:12:12 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: rktman

Does anyone here really think Buck Fiden really gives a shit about gas prices?

F Joe Biden


20 posted on 10/06/2021 4:12:20 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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