Certainly not all of it is the Democrats’ fault, but a lot of it is. Oil is a futures market. Notice how quickly it reacts to policy changes from the US. If Biden came out tomorrow and said he was going to open up drilling and encourage policy to bring more domestic oil to the market as soon as possible, the price on the futures market would immediately fall. And prices at the pump would follow. Biden has done the opposite, and it’s supporting higher prices.
But what matters most is perception. Biden is in office, and he’s going to get the blame from most people. Like Bush and the hurricane. Or Trump and Coronavirus deaths. Biden told us he would not be an excuse president, so I’m waiting for him to own the gas prices, inflation, coronavirus deaths on his watch, etc.