Although “a late-game’gamble” Donald Trump “made during his last year in office may be finally paying off,” it “may have also set up [President] Joe Biden to deal with the effects of higher gas prices just as he was taking office a year later,” according to a Tuesday report published by The Independent. Per the report, “The near-overnight shutdown of global travel and the implementation of lockdown policies in some countries” due the Covid-19 pandemic “led to a massive downward spiral for world oil prices, which became mired in a trade war between Russia and OPEC [Organization of the Petroleum…