Late-night comedian and show host Stephen Colbert, himself a multi-millionaire, laughed off the skyrocketing gas prices that are now hitting low- and middle-income Americans in the wallet thanks to the Biden administration's energy policies coupled with the war now raging in Ukraine, jokingly saying that he’s “willing to pay $4 a gallon” or even more for a “clean conscience.”
"Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4 a gallon,” Colbert acknowledged during his show Monday night.
“OK, that stings - but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two,” he went on, suggesting that it's better to pay more for gas than to keep buying oil from Russia. “It’s important. I’m willing to pay $4 a gallon.”
“Hell, I’ll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla,” he added, laughing.
Colbert, for those who might not know, is worth about $75 million and pulls in a $16 million annual salary, while the average American makes less than $52,000 a year.
Colbert’s out-of-touch response to a major economic hit that’s impacting everyday Americans echoes the repeated comments of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who current lives in a $3,000-a-month luxury apartment and says that if people would simply buy an electric vehicle – which costs, on average, about $10,000 more than a gas-powered car – they wouldn’t have to worry about the price of gas (just, you know, the price of electricity, which is also increasing).
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg thinks all Americans can spontaneously afford electric cars. He needs this reality check. pic.twitter.com/yvUGqTpl8j
— MRCTV (@mrctv) December 4, 2021
For those in the market to join with the elites of the world in their self-righteous crusade against fossil fuels and the unwashed masses that drive them, a base-model Tesla starts at about $45,000.
For the rest of us, historically high gas prices, driven in large part by the Biden administration's unrelenting war on American energy independence, will remain a problem - for us and, mostly likely, for Democrats.