Brit Hume: Americans will link Biden administration with higher prices
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume weighs in on the consequences of the administration's legacy of inflation.
The Biden administration’s green energy agenda never had the best interest of America’s wallets in mind, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume argued on "Special Report."
Hume: It looks to me as if this is an administration that was willing to sacrifice a lot on the altar of moving away from carbon-based fuels. And, you know, gasoline, obviously oil, coal, natural gas, all those in the interest of trying to save the planet. And they seem perfectly prepared to let consumers pay higher prices, perhaps ever-higher prices toward that end. And the consequence of that, I think, is, politically, even if inflation in other areas of the economy subsides, if people are still paying these sky-high, gasoline prices and other fuel prices, the feeling is going to be that this administration brought us inflation and it's here to stay. Not good politically.
Inflation is really a dangerous thing because whatever other gains are made in wages and so forth are wiped out by inflation and it damages your savings. As long as the Fed, if interest rates are low, it's going to be hard for people who have savings to make the kind of gains that they want and need. It is about as corrosive a factor in American life as one can imagine, and it has remained at bay for many years now. And here it's back. And the Fed keeps telling us, no, this is transitory, and maybe it is. But if this administration is going to have an anti-fossil fuels policy that continues to drive energy prices ever higher, they're not going to be to convince people that inflation is under control…
This is kind of politically insane to let this go on. And to shut down pipelines and not approve pipelines and end up begging Saudi Arabia to increase its production to offset the loss of energy here at home, I think is not going to sit well with the public. No question about it.
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