Jean-Pierre is apparently too stupid to figure out that the price of oil is the price of oil, based on the market.
What makes gasoline so expensive now is SharterJoe's own stupidity and cowardice in caving to the leftists. Oh, hell, what am I saying? SharterJoe has ALWAYS been a leftist at heart.
TAXES, Scrunt Jean-Pierre, is yet another reason why gasoline is so expensive in those European socialist paradises that you are trying to embody in this country.
Energy independence is something else she does not understand. Neither does SharterJoe.
Jeez, at least Peppermint Patty, the liar that she was as Press Secretary, isn't nearly as stupid as her replacement. But that's par for the course for SharterJoe -- hiring progressively worse people. And when he operates that way, it shows the world the sheer idiocy of the Democrat party.