Commentary Inflation is now at its highest level in 31 years, but the Biden Administration would have us believe that higher prices have no connection to its big government policies, and that the president and his subordinates have little if any influence on the cost of purchasing what we need to live. Biden himself passes the buck and claims that high gasoline prices are “because of the supply being withheld by OPEC.”  His secretary of energy, Jennifer Granholm, laughs off a query about the administration’s domestic fossil fuel policy because it would take a “magic wand” to influence the global oil market “controlled by a cartel … called OPEC.” At least she didn’t encourage the wearing of Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” buttons with their implicit message that it is consumers’ own fault for buying what they liked. Presumably this administration considers it a coincidence that the energy independence we …