{"id":1301959,"date":"2022-02-16T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1301959"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:22:43","slug":"joe-biden-promises-to-work-like-the-devil-to-bring-down-gas-prices-after-strategic-oil-reserve-release-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-promises-to-work-like-the-devil-to-bring-down-gas-prices-after-strategic-oil-reserve-release-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Promises to &#039;Work Like the Devil&#039; to Bring Down Gas Prices After Strategic Oil Reserve Release Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-promises-to-work-like-the-devil-to-bring-down-gas-prices-after-strategic-oil-reserve-release-fails%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=1301959&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/joe-biden-oil-drilling-energy-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden promised Monday to continue working to bring down the price of gasoline, less than three months after his historic release of oil from the strategic oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to work like the devil to get gas prices down,\u201d Biden told attendees at the National Association of Counties 2022 Legislative Conference in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The price of gasoline has spiked again after the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-releases-50-million-barrels-of-oil-from-national-strategic-petroleum-reserve-as-gas-prices-keep-rising\/\">announced<\/a> on November 23 he would release 50 million barrels of oil to help keep prices down, more than any release by an administration in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>The average price of gasoline was about $2.37 when Biden took office and jumped to as high as $3.41 in November 2021 before he released oil from the strategic oil reserves in time for the Thanksgiving holiday driving season.<\/p>\n<p>But average gas prices only fell to $3.27 a gallon before starting to tick up again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As of Monday, the average gas prices are up to $3.48 a gallon while in some places across the country drivers are paying up to five or six dollars a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Biden tried to express solidarity with Americans who were getting hit hard by the high cost of gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in a family where the price at the pump was felt in the kitchen,\u201d Biden recalled. \u201cEverybody knew. Everybody felt it. I understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Biden continues to push his anti-energy agenda, blocking key pipelines such as the Keystone XL project and trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/whats-the-impact-of-president-bidens-oil-drilling-freeze-on-federal-lands-11611677934\">freeze<\/a> new drilling on federal lands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FACT CHECK CLAIM: Joe Biden on Tuesday claimed, without evidence, that gas companies are overcharging Americans at the pump by not passing on cost savings from lower wholesale gas prices to prices at the pump. <\/p>\n<p>VERDICT: False. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Va4CddLZPl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Va4CddLZPl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1463523774783971339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/14\/joe-biden-delighted-by-number-of-electric-vehicle-super-bowl-ads\/\">promoting<\/a> electric vehicles as the solution to high gas prices, even though they only make up of nine percent of passenger vehicles sold in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/5\/22610501\/biden-2030-ev-goal-trump-emissions-rollback\">wants<\/a> 50 percent of new cars to be electric or electric hybrids by the year 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the hundreds of thousands of folks who bought one of those electric cars, they\u2019re going to save $800 to $1000 in fuel costs this year,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-addresses-high-gas-prices-americans-can-save-money-if-they-buy-electric-cars\">promoting<\/a> electric vehicles as a solution to high gas prices in a November speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden promised Monday to continue working to bring down the price of gasoline, less than three months after his historic release of oil from the strategic oil reserves. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1301959","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\/1301959","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301959\/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=1301959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}