There was a period (the start of the Russia/Ukrainian war) where gas prices were higher than now. So it’s not that crazy I don’t think. The best way to compare two periods would be to average the prices over time but people can’t do that on their own really.
We can compare those periods, sure, but one immediately followed less than a year of Covid and the other was caused by an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war.
Biden had been in office for not very long when the war in Ukraine started. Inflation steadily improved under his presidency.
Trump’s insane slash-and-burn administration has raised inflation a lot, and that’s not slowing down, it’s increasing.
If all you do is take a mathematical average, you’ve lost too much data to understand the important reasons why we’re seeing what we’re seeing.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to argue, although I think my comment unintentionally sounded that way. My bad. I guess my point is that, yes, there are better questions to ask about our current state of affairs than when did we have lower prices. Questions such as:
“Which president did more to address the affordability crisis: Biden or Trump (47)?”
Biden went after this pretty hard while Trump denies there’s even a problem.
There was a period (the start of the Russia/Ukrainian war) where gas prices were higher than now. So it’s not that crazy I don’t think. The best way to compare two periods would be to average the prices over time but people can’t do that on their own really.
We can compare those periods, sure, but one immediately followed less than a year of Covid and the other was caused by an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war.
Biden had been in office for not very long when the war in Ukraine started. Inflation steadily improved under his presidency.
Trump’s insane slash-and-burn administration has raised inflation a lot, and that’s not slowing down, it’s increasing.
If all you do is take a mathematical average, you’ve lost too much data to understand the important reasons why we’re seeing what we’re seeing.
Sure but that’s not what the poll was asking. It just asked whether COL was higher or lower between them.
But maybe you’re right that there are better questions to ask.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to argue, although I think my comment unintentionally sounded that way. My bad. I guess my point is that, yes, there are better questions to ask about our current state of affairs than when did we have lower prices. Questions such as:
“Which president did more to address the affordability crisis: Biden or Trump (47)?”
Biden went after this pretty hard while Trump denies there’s even a problem.