Subj : Re: Trump admin accuses A
To   : Mike Powell
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sat May 03 2025 06:57 pm

 MP> (1) Cars have been going up for a while now, even/especially used ones,
 MP> since long before Biden took office;
 MP> (2) Same thing with insurance;
 MP> (3) you have mentioned the electric bill before -- IIRC it was high but
 MP> actually got higher real recently, like after Trump took office and after
 MP> the tariff war with Canada re: electricity supplied to northern tier
 MP> states, right?
 MP> (4) Biden didn't cause bird flu but, yes, you have me on eggs.

The prices posted on the windshields of the cars are shocking. In 2015 I
bought a 2008 Jeep Patriot with about 45k miles for $11k. There's no deal like that around now.

I've been complaining about unprecented electric bills since last summer, and the worst ones started in about November, and they still are out of wack.

 MP> So it annoys me when people start claiming that Trump is causing prices
 MP> to go down on anything besides eggs, and it also annoys me when Trump
 MP> gets in front of a camera and claims that fuel prices are down below $2
 MP> when Gasbuddy can't find any in the continental US that is that price (I
 MP> have not checked today).

I think Trump expects the tariffs to make prices come down, but it's not an overnight process. I expect major improvements by the end of his term.

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