Biden (or his handlers) either truly believe that they can infinitely print money, or that they are deliberately malicious.
It's both.
Biden's admin is full of hardcore Keynesians. Keep demand high, economy will follow and the recession will be delayed till past elections (if we hit recession pre-election, Biden's presidency will be over, and if it hits before mid-terms Democrats control in congress is Fucked). So they're going to be trying real fucking hard to go balls to the wall with government spending ASAP and until the next Presidential election.
They want fuel costs to be painful. It has to be in order to accelerate the change to
rolling blackouts for everyone but them and the rich who will have fuel generators and the means to pay to run them "green" energy.
But they overshot. Came out too hostile to gas, and didn't anticipate prices going so high that people are turning on them politically en masse. They were thinking "Obama era high", like $3.00 - $3.50, not "holy fuckballs" $6.50 and up.
So fuel cards get them the best of both worlds (in terms of what they think will happen, not what will actually happen). They get that sweet, sweet government spending and blunt the impact of high fuel costs temporarily (expect them to start going out 4-8 weeks before the election).
Of course the most likely situation we can predict, (those of us who haven't drank the kool-aid), is going to be a severe recession coupled with massive inflation instead of the normal deflationary affect of recessions with their policies only making it worse. Supply is constrained by outside factors - it can't be increased to keep up with demand, and demand won't fall enough (more like they won't let it fall enough) to balance out.
