Let them eat cake is perhaps what the elites are thinking.
But the regular people aren’t so worried about eating cake. It’s about eating anything, or instead using the money to fill their gas tank to get to work.
The choices are coming down to that for many of us in the Democrats’ America.
National gas prices averaged $4.065 Monday, according to AAA, approaching the July 17, 2008, record of $4.114. That’s for a gallon of the basic grade of unleaded gas.
A year ago, the national average was $2.786.
As usual, California prices topped the nation at $5.343. Missouri was the lowest at $3.693.
In Massachusetts, Russ Mitchell of Wilbraham was asked how he felt about gas prices right now.
“Sick to my stomach,” Mitchell told WWLP-TV in Springfield.
“When you think back probably two, three years ago, we were energy self-sufficient,” he said. “We didn’t have to buy oil or gas. Now things have gone just in the opposite direction.”
“And they’re killing us. They’re killing the working man,” Mitchell said.
Massachusetts resident on high gas prices:
“Sick to my stomach—you think back probably two to three years ago, we were energy self-efficient. We didn’t have to buy oil or gas, now things have gone just in the opposite direction…They’re killing the working man.” pic.twitter.com/yqbdeWwEAM
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 7, 2022
The hardworking men and women of this country continue to lose.
While the laptop class surfed through the pandemic working at home with their cats on their laps and with commutes calculated in steps rather than miles, it has not been that way for everyone.
Blue collar workers — the ones who build, fix, prepare, clean and haul things — suffered economically from lockdowns. They lost their paychecks — in some cases, their businesses — because of the ill-directed economic freezes.
Some then lost their jobs for refusing to be injected with experimental mRNA shots.
And now, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the looming midterm elections in the U.S. miraculously eliminate the COVID problem, working people are faced with high gas prices keeping them from trying to dig out of the catastrophes of the last two years.
For many of them, it really is coming down to a choice of what gets fueled: the stomach or the car.
And remember what Job One was for Joe Biden: killing the Keystone XL Pipeline project as soon as he took office.
That action might not be the only cause of skyrocketing gas prices, but the symbolism of it represents the cynical attitude of the elites in Washington.
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