From the onset, President Joe Biden’s half-baked plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to curb out-of-control gas prices was doomed for failure.
After being all too happy to tout his “historic” reductions while his patch job staved off his terrible economic policies, now that the bill is seemingly coming due, responsibility has suddenly become “nuanced.”
During Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy sat poised to ruin White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s day with a straightforward question.
“You’ve said the president was responsible for gas prices coming down,” he began to the point. “Is the president responsible for gas prices going up?”
Quicker than you can say “Putin’s price hike,” Jean-Pierre was abandoning reality in an effort to keep afloat Biden’s approval rating, which is perhaps the only number he’s succeeded at keeping low. “So it’s a lot more nuanced than that. Right, Peter? You know this.”
— John May (@juandemayo) October 4, 2022
For better or worse, the press secretary didn’t leave the answer there as she remained in the familiar territory of blaming others for what Biden’s administration has done to the American economy.
“There have been global challenges that we have all dealt with. When I say ‘all,’ meaning other countries as well have dealt with since the pandemic. There’s been the pandemic and there’s been Putin’s war. And Putin’s war has increased gas prices at the pump. We have seen that over the la- –past several months,” she said.
Even then, as she contended the fault was not with the president, Jean-Pierre still endeavored to spin the “breathing room” that Biden had offered by further weakening the nation’s energy independence by depleting the reserves as a boon.
“And what the president was able to do–he took some historic steps, when you think about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and making sure that he–we were able to do everything that we can to bring that cost down for American families, give them a little bit more of a breathing room. And we saw that. We saw that every day this summer over–saving American families over a dollar per gallon,” she said.
The Biden administration on gas prices: pic.twitter.com/8BARUzTSdL
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) October 4, 2022
But Doocy wasn’t ready to let up as he turned back to some facts, asking, “And there are consumers now in California paying $6.41 a gallon for gas; Nevada, $5.51; Oregon, $5.46. Who can afford that?”
“And we understand that,” Jean-Pierre claimed. “That’s why the president worked so hard the past several months to make sure that he did everything we can to bring gas prices down. We have seen fastest–I know you’re pulling out a couple of areas across the country, and I get that. And we understand that there’s more work to do. We have never said we were done here. We have always been very clear that there is more work to do.”
After we saw the fastest rise in gas prices. And the highest gas prices. And they are going back up. 70 cents a gallon in a week thanks to nordstream bombing and the Hurricane ( neither of which did anything to US production. Or the fact that the gas was refined 12 months ago)
— Kevin Shanley (@gofastdieyoung1) October 4, 2022
Gas is up almost $1 in the last two weeks in Alaska. You know that state that’s sitting on almost 7 billion barrels but we’re a whole state that’s being turned into a park no one can afford to visit or live.
— pmpnak (@Pmpnak1) October 4, 2022
Of course, as concerns spread as to who may be behind the recent suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, the American people can only hope that when Jean-Pierre is talking about “more work to do” she isn’t referring to the “tremendous opportunity” that Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the pipelines’ damage before reiterating it was “very significant and…offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come.”
Once again, the President is no longer responsible for gas prices. https://t.co/YPLUFMa0tr
— Aldous Huxley’s Ghost™ (@AF632) October 4, 2022
I love how the leftists have changed the definition of “nuance” to “you caught us lying.”
— Dave Dodson (@dpdodson) October 4, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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