{"id":1534887,"date":"2022-07-01T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534887"},"modified":"2022-07-01T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:20:14","slug":"biden-drivers-will-pay-more-for-gas-as-long-as-it-takes-to-stop-russias-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-drivers-will-pay-more-for-gas-as-long-as-it-takes-to-stop-russias-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: Drivers Will Pay More for Gas \u201cAs Long as It Takes\u201d to Stop Russia\u2019s War in Ukraine"},"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\">36<\/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-drivers-will-pay-more-for-gas-as-long-as-it-takes-to-stop-russias-war-in-ukraine%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=1534887&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<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">P<\/span>resident <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> said Thursday that U.S. drivers will continue to pay record-high <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gas-prices\">gas prices<\/a> for \u201cas long as it takes\u201d to stop Russia\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war-in-ukraine\">war in Ukraine<\/a>, acknowledging that consumers are unlikely to see relief at the pump anytime soon. <\/p>\n<p>During a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breanne_dep\/status\/1542502964811661313\">press conference<\/a> Thursday following the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\">NATO<\/a> summit in Spain, Biden was asked how long people should expect to pay gas premiums because of Vladimir Putin\u2019s war. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as it takes,\u201d Biden said, &#8220;so that Russia cannot in fact defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a critical, critical position for the world,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Gas prices have hit record highs in recent months, part of soaring inflation that has badly hurt Biden&#8217;s approval ratings and sapped support for his spending programs. The national average for a gallon of regular gas is $4.86, according to AAA, up from $3.12 a year ago. Republicans have blamed the high prices on Biden&#8217;s green agenda and efforts to limit drilling for oil and gas. <\/p>\n<p>Biden also expressed optimism about the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/daily-on-energy-q-a-with-top-russia-oil-price-cap-proponent-simon-johnson\">Russian oil price cap plan<\/a> proposed by G-7 nations earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>The price cap scheme would seek to minimize Russia\u2019s oil export revenue through restrictions on the insurance and shipping of its seaborne crude. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/daily-on-energy-q-a-with-top-russia-oil-price-cap-proponent-simon-johnson\">DAILY ON ENERGY: Q&#038;A WITH TOP RUSSIA OIL PRICE CAP PROPONENT SIMON JOHNSON<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve delegated a commission, a group of our national security people, to sit down and work out that mechanism,\u201d Biden said of the plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it can be done,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We think it can be done to drive down the price of oil and would drive down the price of gasoline as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Biden also touted steps he has taken at home to help drive down prices, including ordering the release of 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and asking Congress and states to enact gas tax holidays at the federal and state level. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do these things,\u201d he said, and if Congress and the states agree to pass gas tax holidays, then &#8220;it\u2019s estimated \u2026 we could bring down the price of oil about $1 a gallon at the pump, in that range. And so we could have immediate relief in terms of [the] temporary elimination of the gas tax.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so I think there&#8217;s a lot of things we can do, and that we will do,\u201d Biden concluded. \u201cBut the bottom line, ultimately, the reason why gas prices are up, is because of Russia \u2014 Russia, Russia, Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. drivers will continue to pay record-high gas prices for \u201cas long as it takes\u201d to stop<\/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-1534887","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\/1534887","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=1534887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534887\/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=1534887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}