{"id":1365653,"date":"2022-03-08T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365653"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:26:04","slug":"joe-biden-shrugs-off-high-gas-prices-cant-do-much-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-shrugs-off-high-gas-prices-cant-do-much-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Shrugs Off High Gas Prices: &#039;Can&#039;t Do Much Right Now&#039;"},"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\">24<\/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-shrugs-off-high-gas-prices-cant-do-much-right-now%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=1365653&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden shrugged at high gas prices on Tuesday, just hours after promising Americans he would do whatever it took to lower them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t do much right now,\u201d he told reporters when asked about the spike in gas prices. \u201cRussia is responsible.\u201d<\/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>Biden spoke about gas prices after exiting Air Force One in Texas for an event on veterans\u2019 health care.<\/p>\n<p>When reporters asked Biden what his message to Americans suffering the effects of high gas prices was, he replied, \u201cThey\u2019re going to go up.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pres. Biden responded to a question on gas prices as he arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, saying, &#8220;they&#8217;re gonna go up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t do much right now. Russia&#8217;s responsible.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b8ZftlCLB6\">https:\/\/t.co\/b8ZftlCLB6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TH5d6jETr0\">pic.twitter.com\/TH5d6jETr0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1501321996155637762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president appeared nonchalant about gas prices just hours after he promised to work to bring them down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to do everything I can to minimize Putin\u2019s price hike here at home,\u201d he said during a speech Tuesday morning at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>But when White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked for details of the president\u2019s plan she did not offer many details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to give you a nod or a wink to any specifics,\u201d she said, adding that, \u201cthere are a range of options on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has not announced any significant changes to his existing energy policies to lower gas prices in the wake of Russia escalating their war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president continues to point to significant releases of the American Strategic Petroleum Reserves, but his efforts have done little to reduce the cost of gas.<\/p>\n<p>The average cost of gas has spiked 75 cents from earlier this year, even after prices rose significantly since Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, Biden refused to lift environmental restrictions on fossil fuels to spark domestic oil production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoosening environmental regulations or pulling back clean energy investment won\u2019t \u2014 let me explain \u2014 won\u2019t \u2014 will not lower energy prices for families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president pointed to his dream of a future economy based on electric cars and government subsidies for improving the energy efficiency of buildings as the solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the goal we should be racing toward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden shrugged at high gas prices on Tuesday, just hours after promising Americans he would do whatever it took to lower them. \u201cCan\u2019t do much right now,\u201d he<\/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-1365653","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\/1365653","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=1365653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365653\/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=1365653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}