Opinion by Eugene Robinson: High gas prices hurt, but they’re an opportunity to make good choices
One of those sacrifices involves paying more at the pump. The nationwide average price of a gallon of gasolineon Thursday, an all-time high. Low-income Americans struggling to cope with inflation are suffering. The Biden administration and the Democratic Party, looking ahead to November, are worried. But we must keep in mind that paying higher gas prices now will mean better lives for our children, our grandchildren and the generations that follow.
Biden has not, however, given in to the “drill, baby, drill” hectoring of Republican critics, who see the solution to high gas prices as bringing more and more U.S. oil out of the ground — and, eventually, spewing its heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere. On Wednesday, the administration
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