July 5, 2022
President Joe Biden told Americans Thursday they should get used to paying higher prices at gas pumps for as long as it takes him to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
“Russia cannot, in fact, defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine. This is a critical, critical position for the world,” he said… although most Americans couldn’t find Ukraine on a map, and other than the U.S. and NATO, for most of “the world,” it is not a “critical” position.
Biden keeps telling Americans that the reason for the high gas and other high prices hardships they face is all because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden has long blamed the Russian president for causing the economic hardships in the country and said “Putin’s price hike” is taking its toll on Americans. Biden used a recent speech in Los Angeles to call energy price increases “Putin’s tax.”
Never is there a mention of the draconian sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and its NATO allies, who keep ramping up the war with billions of dollars of weaponry rather than negotiate a peace treaty so lock-downed ports and essential commodities could again hit the market.
Instead Biden said last week that Americans are willing to sacrifice after the Russian invasion and “chose to stand with the people of Ukraine.”
As of 1 July, the average national gas price was $4.84 per gallon. In California, the average price was $6.27. The average price of gas last year was $3.12 across the country.
The Trends Journal has reported that Americans have changed their spending habits in order to save some money at the pump. (See “SPOTLIGHT: INFLATION STILL INFLATING” and “BS BIDEN BLAMES PUTIN FOR ECONOMIC PAIN.”)
And while travel spending is up across the U.S., after being locked down and locked up on-and-off for nearly two years to fight the COVID War, it is pent-up demand that has the people wanting to get out and travel.
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