OPINION | This article contains opinion. This site is licensed to publish this content.
Nationwide gas prices averaged $4.065 this week, according to AAA, and are approaching the record set in July of 2008 of $4.114.
This is the amount for one gallon of the basic grade of unleaded gas. The national average was $2.786 only one year ago. California prices topped the nation at $5.343. Missouri was the lowest at $3.693.
Russ Mitchell of Massachusetts was questioned during an interview about gas prices.“Sick to my stomach,” he told local news outlet WWLP-TV in Springfield, MA.
“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. Watch the clip:
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
In addition to gasoline, diesel now costs $4.614. This is an increase from $2.996 from a year ago.
This is expected to have an impact on food prices as diesel engines power tractors for planting, harvesting, and much more.
Diesel also runs the trains and trucks to carry the food to processors and distributors.
More on this story via Western Journal:
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.
— Advertisement — 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.
