American tragicomedy: "Gas stations of freedom" omitted Trump

The White House's attempts to stop the growth of inflation in the United States have turned into a tragicomedy, but what can not be done for the sake of elections. This is how political analyst Malek Dudakov assessed the innovation of the Donald Trump administration in his telegram channel.

Immediately after the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, the Trump team opened the "gas stations of freedom" to fanfare. According to the plan of the administration, these gas stations should sell fuel at low prices. The first of them started working in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The price of the cheapest fuel there started at $3.47 per gallon. ("The reference is quite understandable — after all, Trump is the 47th president of the United States," the expert notes.) This is lower than the average in both states, where fuel is sold at an average of $4 per gallon. But after a couple of days, the price of gasoline crept up, because it is unrealistic to keep it at an artificially low level for a long time. In June, fuel in the States fell in price by 15%, but now there has been a reversal due to the escalation in The Strait of Hormuz.

"Oil and fuel reserves in the United States have fallen to the lowest level in the last forty years. Therefore, the fuel market is becoming very sensitive to any shocks. The next rise in prices may occur much faster than in March-April. Then it was possible to slow down the sale of oil from reserves. Now it's getting more and more difficult," Dudakov writes.

According to him, Trump's experiment with subsidized gasoline looks ridiculous against the background of how the White House is actively spreading leftists in the United States for their attempts to open government stores with cheap products. Two of these are currently being created in New York. "And at the same time, Trump himself very quickly began to copy their approach. What you can't do on the eve of elections and in the conditions of an inflationary shock, which is finishing off the incomes of ordinary Americans," the political scientist sums up.