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Unreal! Biden admin’s reported plan to offset gas costs stymied by another self-created crisis

June 17, 2022 | | Print Article

In a desperate attempt to placate voters frustrated by soaring gas prices, the White House has reportedly looked again at a discarded plan for the government to send millions of American drivers rebate cards to help ease the soul-crushing despair at the pumps, but there’s just one problem: thanks to Biden’s disastrous handling of the supply chain crisis, there’s a shortage of the chips needed to make the cards work.

The rebate idea was examined months ago, The Washington Post reports, but White House aids ultimately ruled it out after finding that “shortages in the U.S. chip industry would make it hard to produce enough rebate cards,” according to two people “familiar with the matter.”

 

“White House officials also fear there would be no way to prevent consumers from using them for purchases other than gasoline,” another source told WaPo. “Even if the administration embraces the proposal, it would probably require congressional approval and face long odds among lawmakers wary of spending more money.”

Meanwhile, as American Wire News reported Thursday, Biden is still doing his best to ban new federal oil and gas leasing.

“The administration argued the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana should toss an April 29 motion from more than a dozen states asking the presiding judge to permanently nix the leasing ban,” American Wire noted of Monday’s Department of Justice court filings.

In June 2021, the Louisiana court issued an injunction on the ban. As a result, the federal government was forced to hold oil and gas lease sales until the final ruling in the case was issued.

Despite the injunction, not one onshore oil and case lease sale has been held by the Department of Interior (DOI) since Biden took office.

And still, gas prices soar.

On social media, reactions to the rekindled rebate plan seemed less concerned with the irony of Biden’s chip shortage and more with the impact such a program would have on already out-of-control inflation.

“So they actually OK’d this?” asked CMT Ian McMillan. “Ffs why does no one understand how inflation works?”

“Because they insist on blaming corporate greed rather than basic economics,” replied one user. “Emotions over facts.”

When asked if he believed the inflation was a result of ignorance or a deliberate creation, the market technician replied, “I think we both know the answer to that, because no one is this dumb.”

Another Twitter user pointed to the upcoming midterm elections and Biden’s dismal poll numbers as motivation for the rebates.

“We’re sinking in the polls and going to be decimated by the republicans, what should we do??” the user asked. “SEND MORE FREE CR*P TO THE MORONS SO THEY VOTE FOR US!!”

“Buying the idiot vote is the only hope democrats have left,” agreed yet another user.

Still, at least one Twitter user saw the chip shortage as cause to “LOL.”

“Literally the only thing saving this administration from screwing us with more inflation,” the user tweeted, “is the fact that they screwed up the supply chain.”

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9 thoughts on “Unreal! Biden admin’s reported plan to offset gas costs stymied by another self-created crisis”

  1. All government giveaways are paid for by the taxpayer. Only a guess but the illegals, sorry undocumented will more than likely receive them also. Buying votes. I came into this world when Hoover was President, so I have experienced them all since then. Some good, some barely adequate but never one as inept as Biden. His family had to know he wasn’t up to it and even Obama tried to discourage him from running. The media props him up managing the news. If they ever turn on him he will be impeached for being incompetent. Then you get Kamala, the border czar, how did that work out ? JMO

    1. Correction, the government freebies are paid for by half the voters. Washington figured out that if people pay no taxes they are just fine with someone else paying for the free stuff and consequently, they keep voting them into office. I think Republican Scott pointed that out and everyone wanted to crucify him. Because they know he’s right. Until we change that our deficits will continue to grow.

      1. Uh, if you’re not paying taxes you’re not a taxpayer. The rest of your statement is spot on.

  2. Other oil producing countries have VERY low gas prices per gallon (or liter). Why don’t we, Joe? This stupid plan will increase inflation and will be nothing more than a bandaid like all your other stupid plans. We won’t be fooled by this. Democrats are going down in November.

  3. I didn’t vote for basement joe but I’m still paying the price for his poor leadership. Everything you see daily is bad enough, but have you looked at your retirement account. What a shocker!

  4. Then what is he going to do for us next month, the month after that and the month after that. A one time check does not cure the ongoing pain of continued high gas prices. UNLESS, his check is going to be big enough to cover the next 2 1/2 years of artificially high prices that he has purposefully imposed on the American driving public and the consumers that have to suck up the price of diesel fuel through store shelf prices. Ole Inflation Joe just cannot get it right.

  5. Ah, I remember Obama stating how stupid the American people are. And you know Hilary has zero respect for the non-basket of deplorable. This is all they have left, but “what if they buy food instead of gas?” Or menthol cigarettes, for pete’s sake.

  6. There really are people this stupid. And they are ll the member of this illegal administration and the communist dem party as a whole.

  7. So we have inflation brought on by closing down pipelines and printing money. The answer to that is to not allow drilling and printing plastic money.

    I don’t think a 5th grade would be this stupid.

    This is intentionally destroying America and Joe thinks yelling at us to stop saying it is his fault somehow clears his name. Joe the biggest liar yelling at us to stop saying it is his fault. Like he yelled/lied about his education and IQ.

    Really all we need to know is that Joe thinks Hunter is the smarter man ever.

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