{"id":1134204,"date":"2021-12-20T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1134204"},"modified":"2021-12-20T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:20:14","slug":"biden-admin-touts-gas-prices-as-major-2021-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-touts-gas-prices-as-major-2021-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Touts Gas Prices as Major 2021 Accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-touts-gas-prices-as-major-2021-accomplishment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1134204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.279069767442\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Average price for a gallon of gas rose more than a dollar on Biden&#8217;s watch<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353503670_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353503670_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353503670_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353503670_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t Gasoline prices are displayed at a gas station on November 15, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 December 20, 2021 1:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"81.107379767828\">\n<p>The White House is touting gas prices\u2014which rose more than a dollar during President Joe Biden&#8217;s first year in office\u2014as one of its major accomplishments in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span>On Saturday, the White House sent a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1472301330807066629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>memo<\/span><\/a><span> to media outlets promoting the &#8220;enormous amount&#8221; Biden got &#8220;done for the American people in 2021.&#8221; Included in the memo is a section celebrating &#8220;gas prices,&#8221; with the White House noting the &#8220;price of gas at the pump has decreased nearly 10 cents since its peak, and continuing [sic] to fall.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That peak, however, saw the average price for a gallon of gas hit $3.42 in November\u2014more than a dollar higher than the average price when Biden took office. While gas prices have since fallen slightly, they did so amid <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-25\/oil-edges-lower-with-focus-turning-to-opec-response-to-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>fears<\/span><\/a><span> that the fast-spreading Omicron variant would spark another round of coronavirus lockdowns and decrease demand. During his 2020 campaign, Biden promised to &#8220;shut down the virus, not the country&#8221; and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1316894374500962305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> he had &#8220;a plan to get this virus under control.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The White House did not return a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is not the first time Democrats have attempted to spin high prices at the pump into a positive. Roughly two weeks before the Biden administration sent its year-end memo, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dems-celebrate-2-cent-drop-in-average-price-of-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>celebrated<\/span><\/a><span> a two-cent drop in the price of gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Thanks, Joe Biden,&#8221; the DCCC <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dccc\/status\/1466494036630544394?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> alongside a graph showing that gas prices dropped from $3.40 to $3.38 during a two-week period in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden issued a number of executive orders targeting the oil and gas industry within days of taking office, including one that canceled the Keystone XL pipeline project and another that suspended new oil and gas drilling on federal lands. A federal judge in Louisiana ruled in June against the latter, returning the authority to pause the drilling to Congress. But the administration <\/span>is now fighting a GOP-led lawsuit challenging the moratorium.<\/p>\n<p><span>Republicans <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-dems-reject-gop-plan-to-replenish-oil-reserves-biden-drained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>argue<\/span><\/a><span> the policies have undermined American energy independence and caused sky-high oil prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This president and the Democrats are waging a war on fossil fuels and affordable American energy, and American families are paying the price,&#8221; Rep. Fred Upton (R., Mich.) said during a Tuesday floor speech. &#8220;If this administration is serious about lowering gas prices, then it has to stop encouraging other countries and rather encourage ours to produce gas and oil.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Average price for a gallon of gas rose more than a dollar on Biden&#8217;s watch  Gasoline prices are displayed at a gas station on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}