As rising inflation became impossible to ignore, the Biden administration sought to counter the narrative back in July by informing the American public that they could expect to see an entire sixteen cents of savings during their July 4th cookouts in a widely mocked tweet.
Planning a cookout this year? Ketchup on the news. According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July BBQ is down from last year. It’s a fact you must-hear(d). Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working. And that’s something we can all relish. pic.twitter.com/7h9qLauIbC
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 1, 2021
Then yesterday, amid rising gas prices, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tweeted out a chart bragging that at the end of November, the average gas price had declined an entire two cents from $3.40 to $3.38, with an amusingly stretched y-axis (and extremely small range of dates on the x-axis) to make the decline appear significant.
Thanks, @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/0iHwTLv7fB
— DCCC (@dccc) December 2, 2021
The Republican Study Committee responded with a similar chart of their own, and others joined the ridicule.
https://t.co/MmvBO8bqDc pic.twitter.com/iihII2sbVA
— RSC (@RepublicanStudy) December 2, 2021
Jobs report was an anemic 210,000 jobs added despite 573,000 expected. It’s almost as if firing people for not taking the vaccine isn’t a great way to improve the labor scenario.
On the bright side, the White House says gas is down two cents.
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) December 3, 2021
Even the @washingtonpost agrees that two cents isn’t cause for celebration…👀 pic.twitter.com/ukKUM8zfSN
— Senator Rubio Press (@SenRubioPress) December 3, 2021
Hilariously, the post seems to have been inspired by tweet from liberal writer Matt Yglesias earlier in the day – but even he was being satirical.
Overall, gas prices are up from $2.39 the week of inauguration day to $3.38 the final week of November, a figure nearly fifty times greater than the whopping two cent savings advertised.
Meanwhile, Biden, who seems to be debuting a new voice, actually thinks gas prices are down:
Maybe he just thinks two cents is a lot too.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York, Debunk This: Shattering Liberal Lies, and Spygate
