Inflation leads to rising prices everywhere, because it is a debasement of the currency, through issuance of surplus money. It is all the same and the one thing.

There can be some rising prices due to shortages, but if there is no increase in income, the level of spending cannot rise, and vendors must either suffer no purchases or offer reduced prices.

It is a sleight of wit for them to pin the basic problem (inflation) on the effects of certain shortages. Any stratagem to avoid acceptance of responsibility.