{"id":988961,"date":"2021-11-09T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=988961"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:13:39","slug":"obama-2-0-like-his-old-boss-biden-blames-gouging-for-high-gas-prices-forms-task-force-headed-by-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-2-0-like-his-old-boss-biden-blames-gouging-for-high-gas-prices-forms-task-force-headed-by-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama 2.0: Like His Old Boss, Biden Blames &#039;Gouging&#039; for High Gas Prices, Forms &#039;Task Force&#039; Headed by AG"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fobama-2-0-like-his-old-boss-biden-blames-gouging-for-high-gas-prices-forms-task-force-headed-by-ag%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=988961&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-615200816-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden is repeating President Barack Obama\u2019s strategy from ten years ago on high gas prices: he is blaming gas companies for \u201cgouging\u201d and forming a \u201ctask force\u201d headed by the U.S. Attorney General to investigate the alleged abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">interview<\/a> with Cincinnati\u2019s Local 12-WKRC on Monday, Biden responded to a question about high gas prices by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-brushes-off-lagging-poll-numbers-talks-supply-issues\">saying<\/a>: \u201cI have the attorney general taking a look at whether or not these gas companies are gouging people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ironically, Biden\u2019s focus on alleged \u201cgouging,\u201d right down to his \u201ctask force,\u201d repeats steps taken by Obama in 2011 and 2012. In 2011, Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/president-obama-announces-team-root-out-any-cases-fraud-or-manipulation-oil-markets\">told<\/a> a town hall in Reno, Nevada that he had put Attorney General Eric Holder on the job:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>Last month I asked my Attorney General to look into any cases of price gouging so we can make sure nobody is being taken advantage of at the pump. Today, I\u2019m going to go a step further. The Attorney General is putting together a team whose job it is to root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices, and that includes the role of traders and speculators. We\u2019re going to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of American consumers for their own short-term gain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That did not yield many answers. But a year later, Obama revived the same task force, as then-press secretary Jay Carney <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/03\/13\/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney-3132012\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>He is also very focused on what Americans are having to endure right now when they fill up their gas tanks. He has made sure, as I think I talked about yesterday, that his Justice Department has reconstituted the group that\u2019s looking into \u2014 the unit that looks into potential fraud and speculation. He wants to ensure that we\u2019re making sure that that kind of activity is not taking place, and that consumers aren\u2019t getting gouged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201ctask force\u201d approach appears to be a strategy used by both administrations to give the appearance of concern and action, and to blame a scapegoat, without actually doing anything. In appointing Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate supposed \u201cgouging,\u201d Biden is following Obama\u2019s playbook to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has refused to look at his own administration\u2019s policies, such as shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline; moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/01\/report-biden-to-cancel-oil-gas-leases-in-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-anwr-despite-gas-prices\/\">cancel<\/a> oil and gas leases; and taking steps to close another pipeline in Michigan, as the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/08\/white-house-confirms-biden-effort-to-shut-down-another-major-pipeline\/\">admitted<\/a> Monday. The U.S. achieved energy independence and became the world\u2019s number-oil oil producer under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is repeating President Barack Obama\u2019s strategy from ten years ago on high gas prices: he is blaming gas companies for \u201cgouging\u201d and forming a \u201ctask force\u201d headed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-988961","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\/988961","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988961\/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=988961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}