{"id":1502394,"date":"2022-06-03T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502394"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:19:34","slug":"thanks-joe-gas-prices-have-officially-doubled-since-biden-became-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thanks-joe-gas-prices-have-officially-doubled-since-biden-became-president\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thanks, Joe\u2019: Gas Prices Have Officially Doubled Since Biden Became President"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fthanks-joe-gas-prices-have-officially-doubled-since-biden-became-president%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=1502394&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>On the week that Joe Biden was sworn in as president, the average price of gas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&#038;s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&#038;f=W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was<\/a>\u00a0$2.38 per gallon. That price has doubled over Biden&#8217;s tenure, shooting up Friday to an <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-time record high<\/a>\u00a0of $4.76.<\/p>\n<p>The $4.76 average is the fifth record high under Biden. The average reached three records <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/gas-prices-set-fourth-record-high-under-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last month alone<\/a>.\u00a0Biden, who early in his administration hamstrung domestic oil production efforts and whose allies in Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-dems-helped-spike-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked<\/a>\u00a0to spike gas prices, wrote a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-publishes-historic-recovery-as-us-barrels-toward-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> that blamed Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine for the price at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices started rising in December, long before Russia invaded Ukraine. That month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tweeted a graph that implied the president has power over gas prices, an attempt to give Biden credit for a two-cent drop in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks, Joe Biden,&#8221; the DCCC <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dems-celebrate-2-cent-drop-in-average-price-of-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the week that Joe Biden was sworn in as president, the average price of gas was\u00a0$2.38 per gallon. That price has doubled over Biden&#8217;s tenure, shooting up Friday to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502394","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\/1502394","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502394\/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=1502394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}