{"id":1568774,"date":"2022-07-24T14:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568774"},"modified":"2022-07-24T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:07:39","slug":"enjoy-the-modest-dip-in-gas-prices-while-it-lasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enjoy-the-modest-dip-in-gas-prices-while-it-lasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy the Modest Dip in Gas Prices While It Lasts"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fenjoy-the-modest-dip-in-gas-prices-while-it-lasts%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=1568774&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><em>Commentary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working really hard to bring the price down,\u201d a COVID-stricken President Joe Biden claimed regarding gasoline prices in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/07\/22\/remarks-by-president-biden-during-economic-briefing-on-lowering-gas-prices\/\">virtual meeting<\/a> with some of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-energy\">energy<\/a> and economic aides on Friday. It begs the question: how hard did he and his team work to bring the price of gas up over his first year and a half in office?<\/p>\n<p>According to Biden, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gas-prices\">gas prices<\/a> have fallen every day this summer for 38 days in a row. Now, you know, you can find gas for $3.99 or less in more than 30,000 gas stations in more than 35 states.\u201d There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.api.org\/oil-and-natural-gas\/consumer-information\/consumer-resources\/service-station-faqs#:~:text=How many service stations are,stations across the United States.\">more than 145,000 gas stations in America<\/a>, so he could have put this another way: nearly 80 percent of stations in the country are charging over $4 a gallon; when this president took office the average price was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/06\/gas-prices-have-doubled-since-biden-took-office\/\">$2.39<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline can\u2019t help but ripple out through the rest of the economy. Groceries, building materials, medical supplies, work or pleasure travel\u2014there isn\u2019t much of anything that doesn\u2019t rely on a petroleum-powered vehicle to get from farm to table or factory to consumer. But this administration has been twisting itself into knots rationalizing the consumer pain of higher gas prices as a necessity to save the planet\u2014before swiftly taking credit for any slight decline.<\/p>\n<p>The president touted his release of a million barrels a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in the spring. Quite a bit of that actually ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/bidens-selling-of-oil-from-reserve-to-hunter-biden-tied-chinese-firm-impeachable-republicans_4586682.html\">going to communist China<\/a>, our primary global adversary, instead of the domestic destinations that were apparently intended. But that aside, wouldn\u2019t someone dedicated to ending reliance on fossil fuels let all those hundreds of millions of barrels of oil sitting in underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas stay undisturbed? Especially when the supposed purpose is to lower gas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary \u201cWe\u2019ve been working really hard to bring the price down,\u201d a COVID-stricken President Joe Biden claimed regarding gasoline prices in a virtual meeting with some of his energy and economic aides on Friday. It begs the question: how hard did he and his team work to bring the price of gas up over his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"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-1568774","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\/1568774","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568774\/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=1568774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}