Joe Biden tries to blame gas station owners for high prices and immediately gets put in his place on Twitter
Joe Biden has no idea how gas prices work. If this was not clear from his inability to bring them in any direction except up, it’s clear from his Saturday Tweet blaming gas station owners for rising 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.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 2, 2022
Of course, liberals who love authority will eat up anything a Democrat official says and immediately pivot from “it’s Putin” to “it’s greedy gas station owners” in many of the Twitter replies, despite gas station owners making pennies on the gallon in the vast majority of cases even today.
The actual cost gas station owners are paying for the product is reflected by the price they are charging. The issue is that, under Biden, energy costs are high at the source due to inflation.
You know as well as everyone that the Federal Reserve actually sets the prices – through rampant inflation. When 40% of the dollars in the world was printed in one year, inflation sets in and prices skyrocket.
Just yesterday you were blaming Putin.
We see through your scam.
— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) July 2, 2022
From the Libertarian Party to Jeff Bezos, people who know more than the average Democrat about economics call Biden out on Twitter.
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. https://t.co/XgKfEICZpk
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) July 3, 2022
But it’s not just them–regular people are responding sarcastically to Biden’s ineffectiveness as a “leader,” too.
Oh thank goodness you tweeted this. It’s sure to help. 🥴🙄
— Paul (@pdmNM03) July 2, 2022
President Biden politely asks oil companies to stop the malarkey. (2022)
— crazy ass moments in american politics (@ampol_moment) July 2, 2022
My personal favorite of the Tweets:
https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1543293835089825792?s=20&t=Yqd7Htt61y8q16XRvpYbig
Biden has thrown the blame everywhere he could, previously blaming Republicans, Trump, Putin, and refineries. When he is now blaming the little guy owning and running a gas station, he shows his true socialist colors.
https://twitter.com/Ivylgeexec/status/1543265168171610112?s=20&t=hYhHT0GZp3c3TIaiLHeHRg
Of course, this is all Biden’s fault for printing far too much money, useless and excessive spending and restricting the energy sector at every turn.
But hey, at least the Chinese Communist Party agrees with him!
Now US President finally realized that capitalism is all about exploitation. He didn’t believe this before.
— Chen Weihua (陈卫华) (@chenweihua) July 2, 2022
My comment on Biden’s tweet last year, when he didn’t believe that greedy capitalism is all about exploitation. pic.twitter.com/ibgf9dSHyF
— Chen Weihua (陈卫华) (@chenweihua) July 2, 2022
The Communists agree with Joe Biden on this. That tells you all that you need to know.