It gives new meaning to “sticker shock” at the gas pump.
With the price of a gallon of gas topping $4 nationally, little stickers are popping up on pumps to point the finger at President Joe Biden. One Alabama gas station employee said he regularly peels off the stickers, which show Biden pointing at the amount due with the words “I did that” inside a speech bubble.
“I take off five or six a day from our different pumps,” Perry Cagle, assistant manager of an Exxon station near Athens, told WAAY-TV in Alabama.
In northern Virginia, another sticker was seen showing former President Donald Trump pointing at the rising dollar figures and saying “Biden did that.”
The Biden stickers aren’t new, although the rapidly ascending pump prices might be making them more ubiquitous. Last fall, the Boston Herald reported on the sticker phenomenon when gas was “only” $3.50 per gallon. A pack of 100 of the 3-inch-high stickers costs anywhere from $10 to $13 on Amazon.
Cagle didn’t call it funny. He called it vandalism.
“Put it on your car. Put it on your house,” he said. “Don’t vandalize private property.”
Gas prices were already on the rise before Russia invaded Ukraine but are now in record territory. The average national price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $4.065 Monday morning, according to AAA. The latest price is up from $3.610 a week ago, $3.441 a month ago, and $2.768 a year ago. Republicans and even some Democrats have called on Biden to restart the Keystone XL pipeline and take other measures to increase domestic production, but so far, the White House has resisted.
*story by The Washington Examiner