{"id":1564666,"date":"2022-07-21T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564666"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:35:30","slug":"white-house-spins-victory-on-gas-prices-but-theres-a-huge-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-spins-victory-on-gas-prices-but-theres-a-huge-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Spins Victory On Gas Prices, But There\u2019s A Huge Elephant In The Room"},"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\">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%2Fwhite-house-spins-victory-on-gas-prices-but-theres-a-huge-elephant-in-the-room%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=1564666&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T170021Z_1_LYNXMPEI6E0UK_RTROPTP_4_UKRAINE-CRISIS-USA-GASOLINE-scaled-e1658418853593.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg seemed to relish the slight drop in gas prices Thursday but left out the fact that, while prices may slowly be dropping, they\u2019re still incredibly high year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood morning!\u201d Buttigieg tweeted, likely directed at those who can afford an electric vehicle and aren\u2019t struggling to fill up their gas tanks. \u201cGas prices are going down.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good morning! Gas prices are going down.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretaryPete\/status\/1550080632977588226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The current <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national average<\/a> price of gas as of Thursday is $4.44 per gallon, a slight <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/30\/gas-prices-hit-another-record-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decrease<\/a> from last month when the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/gas-prices-5-dollars-gallon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">average price<\/a> was $4.96 per gallon, according to AAA.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the pennies Americans are saving on gas, they\u2019re technically not saving at all because gas prices are currently 40% higher than they were one year ago. While the current average is $4.44, the average on July 19, 2021 was $3.16, according to AAA. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/10\/biden-blames-republicans-soaring-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Blames Republicans For Soaring Gas Prices)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The administration has been quick to take a victory lap about the slight decrease in prices, with White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1546493127971815424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crediting<\/a> President Joe Biden for the approximate $0.50 savings.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/20\/cnbc-becky-quick-pete-buttigieg-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended<\/a> Bernstein\u2019s victory lap while on CNBC Wednesday, noting while the challenge isn\u2019t over, the administration is working daily to lower prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been White House representatives out this week kind of taking a victory lap saying prices are down at the pump, that is surely the case but I just wonder how concerned you should be about taking a victory lap yet,\u201d host Becky Quick asked. \u201cMost Wall Street analysts are anticipating that we will see higher energy prices, in fact, oil prices, above $100 a barrel at this point \u2026 if prices go back up, do you then have to take blame for the higher prices if you take a victory lap now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, no one\u2019s out here saying \u2018mission accomplished,\u2019 we just want to make sure it\u2019s understood that the measures the president and the administration have taken to help to reduce the price of oil seem to be having an effect,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cWe all know that no administration, no policy maker, no president directly controls the price of gas or the price of oil but there have been a number of measures we think are helping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/12\/white-house-taking-credit-falling-gas-prices-malarkey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">insistence they are directly contributing<\/a> to the decrease in prices, there is speculation that the drop in prices could have to do with fears of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/06\/business\/energy-environment\/oil-prices-decline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global recession<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Gas prices are going down&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-1564666","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\/1564666","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564666\/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=1564666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}