Pandemic started in December 2019, gas prices started getting high in early 2021 after keystone was cancelled and the Biden admin began slow rolling drilling permits.
> If things returned to normal, then you can't really blame the pandemic.
We're still dealing with supply chain issues, and will for a while. The idea that you can turn the economy down 30% and back up 30% in less than a year with no lasting effects is silly.
> When this thread started the war in Ukraine was the issue.
Yes. Starting from an already-disrupted screwed-up economic baseline certainly doesn't help.
Simply put we were net oil exporters under Trump, all of the sudden we are back to begging the Saudis. Given the environmental retoric of this administration it isn't unreasonable to conclude that they had a hand in that.
https://wtop.com/national/2021/10/covid-19-drives-gas-oil-pr...