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Many things can cause inflation. The definition of inflation is "when prices go up, on average." One thing that can cause inflation is bombing your own supply lines for an essential commodity that's an ingredient in almost all goods and services, so that there's a shortage of almost all goods and services, raising their prices until demand shrinks to meet the constricted supply.

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Shrinking demand for other items, because when you pay more for gas means you have less money for other things, results in price drops.

Compensated by the cost for companies selling those things increasing, pushing them to move markets or close down as they struggle to stay afloat.

And the ripples don't stop there.

You're arguing that shrinking demand causes cost increases?

If things cost more on average, there was inflation.

If TVs got a bit cheaper but rent went up, there was inflation.

That only happens on the net when excess money is dumped into the economy.

Empirically untrue.

Perhaps you can explain the zero net inflation from 1800-1914, and a dollar today is worth 3 cents of a 1914 dollar?

Sure, that's because money was created faster than the production of goods and services expanded.

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