{"id":1537969,"date":"2022-07-04T07:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537969"},"modified":"2022-07-04T07:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:06:06","slug":"bidens-fiery-gas-station-twitter-post-trolled-by-us-energy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-fiery-gas-station-twitter-post-trolled-by-us-energy-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Fiery Gas Station Twitter Post Trolled by US Energy Group"},"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%2Fbidens-fiery-gas-station-twitter-post-trolled-by-us-energy-group%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=1537969&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>A major American energy lobby has taken aim at a presidential Twitter post that called on gas stations to cut prices at the pump, with the U.S. Oil and Gas Association telling President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> that they\u2019re \u201cworking on it\u201d and that the author of the post should go back to school to learn basic economic fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave a Happy 4th and please make sure the WH intern who posted this tweet registers for Econ 101 for the fall semester,\u201d the energy group said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/US_OGA\/status\/1543598296668803075\">post on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>What appeared to be a sarcastic reaction by the energy group was prompted by a fiery July 2 post from Biden, who called on gas stations across the country to charge customers less.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s official presidential Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1543263229006254080\">wrote that<\/a> he has a \u201cmessage\u201d to gas stations: \u201cThis is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you\u2019re paying for the product. And do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides the\u00a0U.S. Oil and Gas Association posting a critical response to Biden\u2019s message for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gas-station\">gas station<\/a> owners, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019s reaction also suggested a need for some more schooling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It\u2019s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics,\u201d Bezos <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffBezos\/status\/1543409762867494912\">said on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibisworld.com\/united-states\/market-research-reports\/gas-stations-with-convenience-stores-industry\/\">IbisWorld<\/a>, the average gas station profit margin is just 1.4 percent. They make most of their profits thanks to markups on items sold in gas station convenience stores, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehustle.co\/why-most-gas-stations-dont-make-money-from-selling-gas\/\">analysis by The Hustle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Bring Down the Price\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Political pressure has been mounting on Biden as soaring prices at the pump have left American drivers frustrated, while consumers more broadly face a cost-of-living crisis amid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major American energy lobby has taken aim at a presidential Twitter post that called on gas stations to cut prices at the pump, with the U.S. Oil and Gas Association telling President Joe Biden that they\u2019re \u201cworking on it\u201d and that the author of the post should go back to school to learn basic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"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-1537969","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\/1537969","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537969\/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=1537969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}