{"id":1702777,"date":"2022-10-19T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702777"},"modified":"2022-10-19T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:49:18","slug":"doocy-spars-with-press-sec-why-gas-companies-would-help-an-admin-that-means-to-put-them-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doocy-spars-with-press-sec-why-gas-companies-would-help-an-admin-that-means-to-put-them-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Doocy Spars With Press Sec: Why Gas Companies Would Help An Admin That Means To \u2018Put Them Out Of Business\u2019"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fdoocy-spars-with-press-sec-why-gas-companies-would-help-an-admin-that-means-to-put-them-out-of-business%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=1702777&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>Fox News White House correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/peter-doocy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Doocy<\/a> sparred with Press Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/karine-jean-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> during Wednesday\u2019s daily briefing, asking her why President Joe Biden thought gas companies would do anything to help him if his administration wanted to put them out of business.<\/p>\n<p>Doocy put the question to Jean-Pierre in the wake of the president\u2019s announcement that he planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-to-release-more-oil-from-strategic-reserve-ahead-of-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pull additional oil<\/a> from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in order to sell it, then buy it back once the price of oil falls to around $70 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy: &#8220;Well, they produce fossil fuels &#038; this President says he wants to end fossil fuel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;So\u2026Oil production is up and on track to reach a record high\u2026We&#8217;ve seen that\u2026from their\u2026profit margins. They are\u2013they\u2013you know, they\u2013it&#8217;s record high.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EEF4Og3VwZ\">pic.twitter.com\/EEF4Og3VwZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1582815708949336064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doocy began by noting that Biden had once again blamed gas companies for raking in record profits while failing to lower their prices to consumers, and asked why an administration that had repeatedly demonized and hamstrung the oil industry believed the gas companies would do anything to help them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019re asking oil companies to further lower gas prices. What makes you think they are going to listen to an administration that is ultimately trying to put them out of business?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow? How is the administration trying to put them out of business?\u201d Jean-Pierre asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, they produce fossil fuels and this president says he wants to end fossil fuel,\u201d Doocy replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo look, you kind of asked me this question yesterday,\u201d Jean-Pierre pushed back. \u201cHere\u2019s what we would say: U.S. oil production is up and on track to reach a record high next year. We\u2019ve seen that from their \u2026 when we see their profit margins. They are \u2014 they \u2014 you know, they \u2014 it\u2019s record high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre\u2019s comments came on the heels of Biden\u2019s announcement explaining the administration\u2019s energy strategy, after which he claimed to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-to-debunk-myths-about-oil-production-house-judiciary-gop-offers-one-word-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debunk<\/a>\u201d a myth about domestic oil production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s debunk some myths here. My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production. Quite the opposite. We\u2019re producing 12 million barrels of oil per day and by the end of this year, we will be producing one million barrels a day more than the day which I took office,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1582792404234432512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> to the president\u2019s claim with just one word: \u201cLiar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official Twitter account for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rasmussen_Poll\/status\/1582816942804520961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a> took a different tack, sharing a screenshot of a CNBC headline that was published just a week after President Biden was inaugurated. \u201cBiden suspense oil and gas leasing in slew of executive actions on climate change,\u201d the headline read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy sparred with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Wednesday\u2019s daily briefing, asking her why President Joe Biden thought gas companies would do anything to help him if his administration wanted to put them out of business. Doocy put the question to Jean-Pierre in the wake of the president\u2019s announcement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702777","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=1702777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}