{"id":1500322,"date":"2022-06-01T17:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500322"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:45:05","slug":"biden-says-he-cant-click-a-switch-to-lower-gas-prices-in-the-near-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-cant-click-a-switch-to-lower-gas-prices-in-the-near-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He Can\u2019t \u2018Click A Switch\u2019 To Lower Gas Prices \u2018In The Near Term\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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-says-he-cant-click-a-switch-to-lower-gas-prices-in-the-near-term%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=1500322&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--><p>President Joe Biden suggested on Wednesday that the high cost of gasoline is here to stay for quite some time, as he lamented to reporters that it is \u201cnot likely\u201d he can simply \u201cclick a switch\u201d to bring down prices.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made his remarks regarding gasoline from the White House-crafted fake Oval Office that he uses instead of the actual Oval Office \u2014 which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-white-house-oval-office-teleprompter\">reportedly<\/a> uses so that he can stay on a script from a teleprompter \u2014 immediately after discussing the baby formula shortage in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on right now, but the idea we\u2019re gonna be able to, you know, click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near term, nor is it with regard to food,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIDEN: \u201cThe idea we\u2019re gonna be able to, you know, click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near term.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lXNtUZzzbs\">pic.twitter.com\/lXNtUZzzbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1532092105476259845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-how-much-gas-prices-have-risen-since-last-memorial-day\">reported<\/a> that gas prices reached a national average of $4.62 per gallon, \u201cmarking the highest Memorial Day gas prices in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/27\/energy\/gas-prices-memorial-day\/index.html\">more than a decade<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans are thus paying nearly 11% more than the $4.18 prices that prevailed a month ago \u2014 as well as 53% higher than the $3.03 prices from Memorial Day last year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&#038;s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&#038;f=w\">U.S. Energy Information Administration<\/a>,\u201d The Daily Wire added.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Biden\u2019s claims, The Heritage Foundation\u2019s John Cooper rebutted, \u201cThis is a lie. If Biden said we were going to start producing more oil and gas in the U.S., the price of oil would go down *tomorrow.* But he won\u2019t, because he\u2019s doing this all on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meads-happy-st-patricks-day-except-to-joe-biden-the-phony-irishman\">reported<\/a>, high-energy costs have been a hallmark of this administration, and experts like The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies Senior Policy Analyst Katie Tubb argue that Biden has done worse than nothing on the matter. He has actively discouraged investment in the industry and enacted policies that drive up costs, she explained last November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than relieve regulatory roadblocks to affordable energy\u2014like lifting the Jones Act and the ethanol mandate\u2014President Biden has aggressively deployed regulators across the executive branch to make it more difficult to explore\u202f for and produce oil, construct\u202fand\u202foperate pipelines, access\u202ffinancing\u202fand private sector\u202finvestment,\u202fand use gasoline in\u202fcars and trucks,\u201d Tubbs wrote in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden made a political example out of the Keystone XL pipeline and has so far failed to show leadership, as his counterpart in Canada has done, to defend existing pipeline infrastructure serving American families across the country. He has used his bully pulpit from day one to vilify the oil industry rather than implement simple and effective policy solutions,\u201d she added at the time. \u201cFurther, President Biden continues to boost the so-called \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 bill, which would increase oil prices by adding new fees and regulations on oil producers and cutting access to oil off American coasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-policies-are-the-exact-opposite-of-whats-needed-to-solve-illegal-immigration-inflation-and-energy-crises\">recently said<\/a> that energy companies need \u201csignals from the administration that they will support oil and gas development and production\u201d in order to help lower costs by providing confidence in the future of the market. As The Daily Wire explained, \u201cgas prices are a futures market, meaning their cost is partially dependent on signs from the government that oil production will be allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the situation,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-slammed-for-remarks-on-enormously-high-gas-prices-theyre-saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-now\">said<\/a> last Tuesday when asked directly about the \u201cenormously high\u201d cost of gas. \u201cAnd when it comes to the gas prices, we\u2019re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it\u2019s over, we\u2019ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden suggested on Wednesday that the high cost of gasoline is here to stay for quite some time, as he lamented to reporters that it is \u201cnot likely\u201d he can simply \u201cclick a switch\u201d to bring down prices. 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