{"id":1822110,"date":"2023-01-24T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822110"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:39:37","slug":"reporter-presses-biden-official-to-embrace-race-narrative-on-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-presses-biden-official-to-embrace-race-narrative-on-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Presses Biden Official To Embrace Race Narrative On 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\">22<\/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%2Freporter-presses-biden-official-to-embrace-race-narrative-on-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=1822110&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-->\n<p>Energy Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jennifer-granholm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Granholm<\/a> I was asked to comment on rural and urban areas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/systemic-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disparities<\/a> In <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/gas-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gas prices<\/a> by a <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporter<\/a> He seemed to be suggesting that there was a race-driven explanation for the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>April Ryan from TheGrio observed during Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/01\/23\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-secretary-of-energy-jennifer-granholm-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press briefing<\/a> That \u201cthere were some communities that felt the relief\u201d As a result, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a> The release of millions of barrels from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/strategic-petroleum-reserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategic Petroleum Reserve<\/a> In order to lower the price of fuel, \u201cother communities did not, particularly those in urban areas.\u201d Granholm was asked by her to explain. \u201cthere was such a difference in communities with gas prices in one community versus the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Official replied that fuel prices vary across the country because of infrastructure costs. \u201cSome rural areas, for example, or some who might be at the very end of a line or may not even have a line, they may get it trucked in. It takes longer and it\u2019s more expensive,\u201d She spoke. \u201cIf you\u2019re not near a refinery, that\u2019s another reason why the transportation costs are tacked on at the pump. So you\u2019re seeing, for example, when refineries go down in regions, then the prices go up in those regions much more than they would nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan did not give up on the issue. \u201cBut specifically, the urban areas,\u201d She asserted. \u201cBecause there was still a big pinch in urban areas with these gas prices when the outlying communities, particularly majority white communities, were seeing the drop to $3.00, and many of these urban areas were seeing $4.00 and $5.00 gas prices. Could you speak to that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granholm pointed out that gas stations are often owned by individuals, rather than oil companies. This suggests that authorities should pursue those who profit from emergency situations. \u201cState attorney generals should go after because gouging is illegal,\u201d She spoke. \u201cYou cannot take advantage of a crisis to jack up the prices in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granholm and Ryan made the exchange as fuel prices continue rising, which worsens inflationary pressures facing households. According to the National Average Price of Gas, it currently stands at $3.45 per Gallon. <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> From AAA, which is a 45% increase over the previous administration of Biden. Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary, claimed Monday that \u201cHouse Republicans are using their narrow majority to force the American people to pay higher gas prices, just as big oil companies are amassing record profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Fuel analytics company GasBuddy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gasbuddyguy\/status\/1608830476298469377?s=46&#038;t=wYpu520Rr20bfmNRwVR-aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marked<\/a> Average gas prices for 2022 at $3.96 per gallons, which is far higher than the $3.02 per gallons average charted 2021 and the $2.17\/gallon average charted 2020. GasBuddy is still available. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-when-gas-prices-could-return-to-4-per-gallon-according-to-new-projection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forecasts<\/a> After approaching $4.00 per gallon during the summer, prices will fall to $3.49 per gallon nationally in 2023. However, this reading would still be among the highest prices at the pump for more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was asked to comment about urban and rural disparities in gas prices by a reporter who appeared to be implying a race-driven cause for the phenomenon. April Ryan of TheGrio noted during a Monday press briefing that \u201cthere were some communities that felt the relief\u201d as a result of President Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1822113,"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":[3620,11020,7536,4166,4808,4578,4590,5069,5046],"class_list":["post-1822110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-biden","tag-embrace","tag-gas","tag-narrative","tag-official","tag-presses","tag-prices","tag-race","tag-reporter"],"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\/1822110","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}