Bidenomics Jacks Up Inflation, Oil, Gas

BIDEN: Today, gas prices are lower than they were early in this decade. But they’re still high enough to create a pinch on working families. One key thing about the infrastructure bill that just passed the Senate is there are no gas tax increases. No gas tax increases. I made that absolutely clear that I would not raise gas taxes. I’m glad everyone in the Senate seemed to agree with that.

But that’s not enough! Recently, we’ve seen the price that oil companies pay for a barrel of oil begin to fall. But the cost of gasolines (sic) at the pump for more American people haven’t fallen. That’s not what you’d expect in a competitive market. I want to make sure that nothing stands in the way of oil price declines leading to lower prices for consumers.

BUCK: Feeling that pain at the pump, you can thank Joe Biden for it, along with the inflation that’s coming your way already. Welcome back to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. I’m Buck, and that was Biden, and yeah. He knows gas prices not looking so good, Clay. Turns out that when you’re pushing policies and regulations that make it harder for energy to be found, processed, refined, and sold, prices go up.

CLAY: Even you who doesn’t even drive a car!

BUCK: I can drive a car. I just live in New York City.

CLAY: You don’t drive one on a daily basis.

BUCK: In New York City, you gotta have big, you-just-sold-your-company-money to drive a car in New York City ’cause the garages here are a thousand dollars a month. It’s crazy how expensive they are, $800 a month. It’s crazy.

CLAY: I remember. I mean, I went to college in D.C. and nobody could afford a car because of that exact reason, at least college kids. But, yeah, for the average person out there driving around the price at the pump is just massive. We don’t talk a lot about that but that’s effectively a tax increase on the average person.

BUCK: What was your first car? My first car was a Buick Roadmaster station wagon with wood-paneled sides and about 85,000 miles on it, baby. That thing, it was like a boat. If you tried to turn going more than 30 miles an hour, you’d fishtail. It was amazing.

CLAY: My first real car I didn’t get ’til I was like 25 years old, but I drove a 1985 Volvo station wagon, which was also like a boat.

BUCK: We’re station wagon brothers!

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: We didn’t even realize this.

CLAY: Yeah. My mom got the station wagon for my sister and I when we were little and then by the time I was a high school-age kid who was driving to school I drove a 1985 Volvo station wagon.

BUCK: I was on Red Eye back on Fox when that was the show that Greg Gutfeld was doing.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: They dubbed my wood-paneled Roadmaster “the Shaggin’ Wagon,” because there was, they said, no shaggin’ with that wagon.

CLAY: Yeah. (laughing) You were driving it as an adult.

BUCK: Yes of course! As an adult, I was happy to have wheels.

CLAY: I’m not saying, I was driving the ’85 station wagon in high school. It wasn’t real my car. It was the family’s car, but that was what I drove. And then I won a car at a halftime football contest.

BUCK: Wait! What?

CLAY: You haven’t heard that story, have you?

BUCK: You are like a lottery winner. How does that happen?

CLAY: I was in the stands for a football game; they came and said, “Hey, would you like to be in the halftime contest?” I went out onto the field. This is an NFL game, Titans were playing the Eagles. I was wearing shorts and flip-flops and the halftime contest was, “Can you catch punts?”

For people who know the JUGS machine, they shoot the punts up in the air, and you had to catch a 25- and a 40-yard punt on the field in the middle of halftime with 60,000-70,000 people in the crowd. I caught both punts and then I got to come back, and there were like seven of us that had qualified over the whole season. I drew a key out that started the car on Monday Night Football at halftime.

BUCK: What was the car?

CLAY: It was my first-ever car. That’s what I was gonna say. Mercury Mountaineer. It was fantastic. It was as big SUV.

BUCK: A Mountaineer man, I see.

CLAY: And it also came, Buck, with a pontoon boat, which I didn’t have anywhere to take a pontoon boat, so I sold the pontoon boat back to be able to pay the taxes on the car, because at the time I was in school; I had no income. But I drove that the car for a decade. That was my first car that I ever owned.

BUCK: I’ve always wanted to go on Jeopardy! or something.

CLAY: I’d love to do Celebrity Jeopardy!