The survey, taken June 28-29 among 1,271 registered voters, discovered that 33 percent have actively changed their travel intentions this holiday weekend because of consistently high gas prices.
“Regarding airfare, 18% have changed plans because of issues with plane travel,” the survey discovered.
The results come as gas prices remain high, standing at an average of $4.842 on Friday after reaching an all-time high of $5.016 on June 14. Even so, gas prices are still well more than $2.40 higher than on former President Donald Trump’s last full day in office on January 19, 2021. At the time, the gas price average stood at $2.38.
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Not just that, yet the cost of throwing a Fourth of July weekend cookout has jumped drastically, up 17 percent from last year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF):
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"Survey results showed the retail price for 2 pounds of ground beef at $11.12, up 36% from last year. Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department’s Producer Price Index indicates that compared to a year ago, farm-level cattle prices are up 17.5%, but wholesale beef prices are down 14%. This serves to highlight the differences between farm-level, wholesale and retail beef prices and how the events of the last few years have had significant impacts on the beef production and cattle pricing cycles, making them all hard to predict."
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"Several other foods in the survey, including chicken breasts, pork chops, homemade potato salad, fresh-squeezed lemonade, pork & beans, hamburger buns and cookies, also increased in price."
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A recent YouGov/CBS News Poll revealed the majority of Americans indicated that the increasing cost of food is affecting them “a lot.”
“Fireworks are not the only thing exploding this holiday, as prices are soaring higher than any bottle rocket,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in an announcement.
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“Joe Biden’s reckless agenda has made it more difficult for Americans to spend time with family, friends, and celebrate Independence Day. The American dream is slipping away because of Biden’s reckless agenda,” she went on.
Although, many ask, if Biden wants more American fuel, then he should allow the building of new refineries, right?
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But, on May 12, Biden’s Interior Department blocked a proposal to open up over one million acres of land in Alaska for oil and gas drilling. Two days later, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency stopped intentions to expand an oil refinery in the US Virgin Islands.
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Biden and his defenders announced he had to block the expansion of the Virgin Islands refinery, given how polluting it was.
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Yet had Biden’s EPA allowed the Virgin Island refinery to expand, the owners would have streamed almost $3 billion into retrofitting the plant so it produced gasoline and different products more cleanly, while significantly increasing production at the same time.
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