{"id":1697570,"date":"2022-10-17T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697570"},"modified":"2022-10-17T06:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:35:53","slug":"biden-adviser-brags-about-gas-prices-being-60-higher-than-in-early-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-adviser-brags-about-gas-prices-being-60-higher-than-in-early-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Adviser Brags About Gas Prices Being 60% Higher Than in Early 2021"},"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\">26<\/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-adviser-brags-about-gas-prices-being-60-higher-than-in-early-2021%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=1697570&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 class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/steve-scalise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise<\/a> blasted Democrats on Sunday after he said Senior White House economic adviser\u00a0Jared Bernstein was &#8220;bragging&#8221; about gas prices being lower today while the cost of fuel remains higher than when President Biden first took office last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Scalise, R-La., appeared on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to discuss how he believes Republicans will flip seats from the Democrats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Voters] are furious with Biden and Pelosi\u2019s far-left socialist agenda that\u2019s led to increased spending, increased inflation, just the cost of everything when you go to the grocery store,&#8221; the House Minority Whip said, adding &#8220;if you can even afford to put gas in your car when you get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White House and Jared Bernstein just before me, they\u2019re talking, bragging as if gas prices are lower,&#8221; Scalise continued. &#8220;Gas prices are about 60% higher today than when Joe Biden took office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/official-polls\/fox-news-poll-polarization-defines-midterm-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FOX NEWS POLL: POLARIZATION DEFINES THE MIDTERM ELECTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein also appeared on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; and praised Biden for bringing down gas from the $5 high in June to $3.888 nationally.\u00a0 (Win McNamee\/Getty Images, File)<\/p>\n<p>When Biden first took office in January 2021, the national average for regular gas was $2.39 per gallon, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Energy Information Administration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, AAA reported that the national average price for regular gas was $3.888 per gallon. That was a slight decrease from Saturday\u2019s national average of $3.892 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p> House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said that gas prices are still up 60% from when Biden first took office last year. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images, File)<\/p>\n<p>The highest recorded average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/gas-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">price per gallon<\/a> for regular was $5.016 on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise also slammed Biden for shutting down American energy production, saying that the decision has contributed to the increase in fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden\u2019s begged Russia, he\u2019s begged Iran, Venezuela and other countries to produce oil when we should be producing it in America,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scalise said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America\u2019s oil production<\/a> is much cleaner than that of other countries, noting that if we were to produce oil ourselves, it would bring prices down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise blasted Democrats on Sunday after he said Senior White House economic adviser\u00a0Jared Bernstein was &#8220;bragging&#8221; about gas prices being lower today while the cost of fuel remains higher than when President Biden first took office last year. Scalise, R-La., appeared on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to discuss how he believes Republicans will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697570","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=1697570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}