{"id":1548273,"date":"2022-07-11T07:55:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548273"},"modified":"2022-07-11T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:21:40","slug":"biden-ditches-putin-price-hike-narrative-to-instead-blame-republicans-for-high-gas-prices-under-democrat-president-and-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ditches-putin-price-hike-narrative-to-instead-blame-republicans-for-high-gas-prices-under-democrat-president-and-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Ditches &#8220;Putin Price Hike&#8221; Narrative to Instead Blame Republicans for High Gas Prices Under Democrat President and Congress"},"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\">38<\/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-ditches-putin-price-hike-narrative-to-instead-blame-republicans-for-high-gas-prices-under-democrat-president-and-congress%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=1548273&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>President Joe Biden blamed Republicans for soaring gas prices in a Sunday tweet, moving on from the \u201cPutin-price hike\u201d shtick.<\/p>\n<p>Biden attempted to shift blame onto Republicans as a way to drive up support amongst voters for the November midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs,\u201d Biden tweeted. \u201cThis is not right. And that\u2019s why this election is going to be so darn important.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/07\/bloomberg-host-calls-joe-biden-shockingly-naive-heather-boushey-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Bloomberg Host Calls Biden \u2018Shockingly Naive\u2019 To WH Adviser\u2019s Face)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs.<\/p>\n<p>This is not right. And that\u2019s why this election is going to be so darn important.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1546260478564962306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden Administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/16\/cnbc-anchors-arent-buying-bidens-putin-price-hike-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consistently blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> for the rise in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/23\/doocy-hammers-jean-pierre-lowering-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gas<\/a> prices, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/15\/joe-biden-oil-companies-letter-refining-capacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warning<\/a> seven major U.S. oil companies in a recent letter they would face a new tax on energy if they do not boost domestic output. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/15\/biden-emergency-powers-oil-gas-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a>, Biden said Putin is \u201cprincipally responsible\u201d for the \u201cfinancial pain\u201d Americans are facing at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden\u2019s initial accusations against Putin, and the continuously shifting <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/22\/fed-chair-jerome-powell-biden-putin-price-hike-spin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blame game<\/a> thereafter, ring hollow as gas prices were on the rise <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/12\/white-house-joe-biden-gasoline-prices-green-transition-jen-psaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well before<\/a> Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have called on Biden to reverse his revocation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/biden-administration-keystone-xl-pipeline-economic-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a>. The administration also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/joe-biden-administration-interior-department-alaska-oil-drilling-energy-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ditched<\/a> an oil drilling project in Alaska and banned new oil and gas leasing on federal lands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/joe-biden-jennifer-granholm-spr-release-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden ordered<\/a> the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in November, 30 million barrels on March 1 and 180 million barrels on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve-crude-oil-gasoline-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 31<\/a>, stating the \u201chistoric\u201d actions would ease the pressure faced at pumps.<\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/06\/report-oil-that-biden-released-from-us-strategic-reserves-ended-up-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> suggest, however, that millions of barrels of oil released last month went to foreign nations, including China.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how Republicans are holding back lowering the cost of gas, with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/fred-keller-republicans-domestic-oil-gas-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republicans calling on the federal government<\/a> to boost energy supply by expanding domestic production in a May letter. The letter demanded the U.S. repeal federal precedent limiting exploration, drilling and production of fossil fuels on federal lands and waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden blamed Republicans for soaring gas prices in a Sunday tweet, moving on from the \u201cPutin-price hike\u201d shtick.Biden attempted to shift blame onto Republicans as a way to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575977,"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-1548273","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\/1548273","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=1548273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}