No, I haven't, but cause they don't.
It is a dishonest attempt by his administration to blame high energy costs on Putin's invasion. That act of war certainly made energy prices worse, but inflation was out of control before Putin fired his first shot.
As for solutions, the Fed has finally acknowledged its error and has begun doing its part. The federal government needs to do the same and rein in spending.
Impoverish the children first by blocking renewal of the child tax credit,
continue to defund the IRS based on a lie! Okay, got it!
https://www.motherjones.com › kevin-drum › 2017/10
Oct 6, 2017 — Let's take a trip down memory lane. Do you remember
Lois Lerner? BOLO? The IRS audits of tea party organizations? Sure you do.
https://www.wavy.com ›
Oct 19, 2021 —
Toomey says the IRS has a track record of discriminating against conservative organizations and doesn't believe the collected information .
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2021 By Paul Krugman
"On the surface,
Republican demands should have made agreement impossible. G.O.P. senators
were adamantly opposed to tax increases.
They also blocked proposals to give the I.R.S. resources to crack down on widespread tax evasion — a stance that even cynics like yours truly found a bit shocking.
What kind of party more or less openly aligns itself with wealthy tax cheats?.."
If you wanted to have stable prices as post pandemic domestic activity returned, domestic refining capacity and petroleum exploration
and extraction needed to be preserved via an emergency storage expansion by invoking the War Powers Act in March or April, 2020
and by exporting as much crude oil as possible as Saudi Arabia and Russia were attempting to, to preserve output levels at any cost.
The U.S. government has guaranteed a floor price on milk and cheese for many years because no other practical choice to insure supply
was ever arrived at. Trump and advisors devoted no attention to avoiding what would happen when the largest consumer of refined petroleum,
the airlines, recovered to normal activity.
Instead, just after demand cratered resulting from pandemic shutdown,
the U.S. under Trump shut in production and shut down.
Trump worked to increase domestic petroleum demand with no policies to preserve supply.
US to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort ...
https://www.nytimes.com ›
Mar 31, 2020 — The
Trump administration has finalized new
fuel efficiency standards, lowering expectations
from 54 miles per gallon by 2025 to 40 miles a ...
Energy executives say the White House has set up a system where only a relative handful of favorite energy executives have access to people who can shape policy.
www.politico.com
Energy executives say the White House has set up a system where only a relative handful of favorite energy executives have access to people who can shape policy.
By Ben Lefebre
10/27/2020
"The oil industry’s fortunes have been withering on President Donald Trump’s watch, ...
Though some of those industry woes were emerging last year as companies grappled with a glut of oil, people in the business say they were made worse by the president’s trade wars and mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. So far least
40 U.S. oil companies have sought bankruptcy protection in 2020 while dozens of others have slashed spending and cut tens of thousands of jobs. ..."