It’s not who you may think it was
Dean Baker points out that there is a president responsible for inflation in gas prices. It isn’t Joe Biden:
Trump demanded that Saudi Arabia cut back production back in 2020. According to Trump, he worked out a deal where OPEC producers would all agree to reduce their output. The reason we now have high oil prices is that they have not returned their production to pre-pandemic levels. Hey, by the media’s standards of what makes a politician responsible for an event in the world, this is practically airtight.
It’s more than a bit bizarre that Donald Trump literally boasted about getting oil producers to cut production, but somehow President Biden is held responsible for high gas prices.
I find it very easy to imagine that Trump and Jared persuaded the Saudis to do this for this very purpose.
I wonder why Democrats aren’t pointing this out?