Two things to pay attention to is the increasing prices of Laptops and all electronic appliances. Laptops which powered the world till date is seeing a massive hike in price and the normal buyers will have to suffer due to that.

Companies are bleeding cash on AI, Billions in commitment that no one can guarantee returns on and American Citizen's forced to invest into these companies via 401k, etc.

No one feels the pain of this more than the average consumer and the American middle class. Isn't this interesting, the world that is running on middle class is where they are the most neglected ones! Democracy they say.

One shouldn't forget is that every dollar that's spent on something, is a dollar not spent on something else. As long as both options are domestic and does not involve money being sent abroad, increase in price of one product means decrease of price in another, so in a way, gas prices cannot move overall inflation at all: gas, becoming more expensive, made other things cheaper by suppressing demand on them.

In the old days, oil in the US was mostly imported, so that wasn't the case: higher oil price meant just less money left for anything else, so economy could fall while prices rose (stagflation). Now, this is no longer the case, higher oil prices mean more money for everyone because US is a net exporter.