While the elderly give up meals and medicine to pay heating bills this winter, and everybody turns the heat down, the Beltway Bandits are gloating over trillions in extra money they expect in the near future. Windfall billions that they can dive in and play with like Scrooge McDuck. The government is loaded. The stock market is just leveling off. We have no inflation.
Energy costs are just a passing phenomena making up for global warming.
It'll all come back in the fall. That ten dollar hamburger is just because of the atmosphere you buy. Sales are down. You aren't spending enough. You probably have everything you need already.