{"id":1714494,"date":"2022-10-28T07:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714494"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:34:21","slug":"biden-blasted-for-blatant-lie-about-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blasted-for-blatant-lie-about-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Blasted For \u2018Blatant Lie\u2019 About Gas Prices"},"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\">16<\/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-blasted-for-blatant-lie-about-gas-prices%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=1714494&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>President Joe Biden faced backlash Thursday for false claims that he made about the price of gasoline when he took office.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York, about Micron\u2019s plan to invest in chips manufacturing, Biden falsely claimed that the price of gasoline was $5 per gallon when he took office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd because of the actions we\u2019ve taken, gas prices are declining,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cWe\u2019re down $1.25 since the peak this summer, and they\u2019ve been falling for the last three weeks at well \u2014 as well. That\u2019s adding up to real savings for families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the most common price of gas in America is $3.39 \u2014 down from over $5 when I took office,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Biden over the false claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a blatant lie,\u201d Cruz tweeted. \u201cAnd \u2014 even in his diminished state \u2014 @JoeBiden knows it. Every single media \u2018fact checker\u2019 has a responsibility to unequivocally call out this, quite literal, gas lighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden says gas was &#8220;over $5&#8221; when he took office. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s lying \u2014 again. The average price for gas was $2.39\/gallon when Biden took office. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lpSz1DsAOy\">pic.twitter.com\/lpSz1DsAOy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1585733743179956224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGasBuddy data shows that the most common prices when Biden took office were $2.29, $2.19, $2.39 and $2.09, the top 10% averaged $3.26\/gal, while the bottom 10% averaged $2.00\/gal,\u201d energy analyst Patrick De Haan tweeted. \u201cThe median price was $2.29\/gal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Margaret Thatcher aide Nile Gardiner tweeted, \u201cThe outright lies from the Biden Presidency are a disgrace and are extremely condescending. Biden treats the American people with contempt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden is an inveterate, remorseless liar,\u201d former White House official Stephen Miller tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not hyperbole to say Joe Biden is the biggest liar in presidential history,\u201d radio host Jesse Kelly tweeted. \u201cAnd that\u2019s saying something because they all lie all the time. But he tell these bizarre black and white lies that any idiot can verify. It\u2019s honestly very strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News commentator Guy Benson wrote, \u201cHe keeps saying just totally false, easily falsifiable stuff about gas prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to the ACKSHUALLY Reuters or AP \u2018fact-check\u2019 on how when you consider the inversion principle of the fallopian tube, and congregate it with adverbs aplenty alongside ball bearings, this claim from Biden is \u2018mostly true,&#8217;\u201d podcast host Steve Deace tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Radio host Andrew Wilkow tweeted: \u201cAs soon as he cannot use the SPR that price is going right back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how often you repeat a lie, it still doesn\u2019t change the fact that it\u2019s a lie,\u201d Jennifer Stefano tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-claimed-trip-to-saudi-arabia-wasnt-about-oil-new-report-suggests-they-lied\">Biden Admin Claimed Trip To Saudi Arabia Wasn\u2019t About Oil. New Report Suggests They Lied.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden faced backlash Thursday for false claims that he made about the price of gasoline when he took office. Speaking at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York, about Micron\u2019s plan to invest in chips manufacturing, Biden falsely claimed that the price of gasoline was $5 per gallon when he took office. \u201cAnd &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1714498,"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-1714494","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\/1714494","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=1714494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}