Biden Mocked Over Tweet Calling on Gas Stations to Bring Down Prices

The average price of gas in the U.S. was $4.80 on 5 July

President Joe Biden was mocked after taking to Twitter over the weekend to implore gas station owners to lower the price while Americans face record inflation and a surge in energy prices.

Biden has worked at trying to tie these prices to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but recent polling suggests that Americans blame the White House for the increase in prices.

“My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril,” Biden tweeted. “Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.”

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Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire, responded: “Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.”

The U.S. Oil and Gas Association, an oil industry group, also responded: “Working on it Mr. President. In the meantime - have a Happy 4th and please make sure the WH intern who posted this tweet registers for Econ 101 for the fall semester...”

Biden has made it clear that Americans should know that the economic hardships that they face can be blamed on Putin and not the useless COVID-19 lockdowns, trillions in stimulus funding, and massive sanctions leveled against Moscow... all which have spiked inflation and driven down the economy.  

Biden said last month that Americans have been willing to sacrifice after the Russian invasion and “chose to stand with the people of Ukraine.”

"So for all those Republicans in Congress criticizing me today for high gas prices in America, are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine? Are you saying we were wrong to stand up to Putin? Are you saying that we would rather have lower gas prices in America and Putin’s iron fist in Europe? I don’t believe that," he said.

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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.”

TREND FORECAST: While President Biden bragged that the sanctions mean “Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine,” a few weeks ago, he did not mention that it is also dealing a powerful blow to the American people. 

The national average price of gasoline surpassed $5 a gallon for the first time ever in June, and some economists have warned these prices could hit $6 sometime during the summer months.

Again, as we continue to note, the general public is only getting a one-sided view of the sanctions and mandates imposed against Russia, which we forecast will do nothing to alter Moscow’s military posture, but will cause great hardship for the people of the world. 

And, as to how will Russia fight against the sanctions being imposed upon it and the scores of businesses and financial institutions leaving the nation? Russia has bolstered itself over a long period of time—even prior to the Ukraine War—in preparation for the assault by creating as much of a self-sufficient economy as possible, in line with our Top 2022 Trend of self-sufficiency.