Biden Washes His Hands of Gas Prices Now That They're Going Back Up

[Eupher]

In most of my area, gas prices are at $3.199 per gallon for unleaded regular (10% ethanol swill added for your personal delight).

At Little Rock AFB, the price was listed at $3.099 yesterday, but the PX system keeps prices pretty much on par with the surrounding neighborhood, so I expect that price to rise soon.

SharterJoe -- the coward's coward. 

Over this summer, gas prices experienced a prolonged decline, and the White House wanted the country to believe it was because of Joe Biden’s policies.

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But it is now clear that gas prices are trending up again.

Of course, after months of taking credit for gas prices going down, Biden sure isn’t planning to take the blame for them going back up. Last week, he preemptively blamed Big Oil for gas prices going forward by claiming, without any evidence, that gas company executives might engage in price gouging because of Hurricane Ian.

“I want to add one more warning … to the oil and gas industry executives. Do not — let me repeat, do not — use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people,” Biden said.

Phil Flynn, a FOX Business contributor and senior market analyst at The Price Futures Group, told FOX News Digital that Biden is playing politics with gas prices.

“The president’s playing politics, and there is no doubt that when a storm comes in it can impact gasoline prices — but not necessarily because the oil companies are playing with the prices,” he said, pointing out that the demand for gas skyrockets just before a major storm because people plan to leave their homes.

“Once again, here’s the Biden administration falsely accusing the U.S. energy companies of profiteering, which is in their playbook,” Flynn added. “It shows that they have either a total misunderstanding or a total disrespect for the industry.”

Another point that must be noted is that gas prices had been trending upward before Hurricane Ian, so Biden is clearly using the hurricane as a cover to distance himself from the rising cost of gas.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/10/02/biden-washes-his-hands-of-gas-prices-now-that-theyre-going-back-up-n1633907

[SVPete]

One-time events - e.g. LIEden's Strategic Petroleum Reserve release(s) - cannot permanently change a long-term phenomenon. Either LIEden's peeps are too stupid to realize that, or they miscalculated their timing, so that gas prices would rise during the month before the election LIEden's peeps intended to skew.

[Eupher]

One-time events - e.g. LIEden's Strategic Petroleum Reserve release(s) - cannot permanently change a long-term phenomenon. Either LIEden's peeps are too stupid to realize that, or they miscalculated their timing, so that gas prices would rise during the month before the election LIEden's peeps intended to skew.

I'll take "too stupid" for $200, Alex.

Like most everything that SharterJoe signs on to do, it's a kneejerk reaction to a problem. Sustained withdrawal from the SPR is not a plan and it's not a solution. But his handlers are too stupid to see it and I'm not sure timing has much to do with it either.

Stupidity doesn't wait for "the right time." It's there all the time for everybody to see.

[Old n Grumpy]

I wonder if he will wash his hands of hunter 

[DefiantSix]

I wonder if he will wash his hands of hunter 

He can't afford HilLIARy's "Suicide Squad", he's too far gone in dementia to whistle up one of his own, and the Feebs at the FBI US-KGB can't even field a squad of agents provocateur_{Patriot Front} without being ham-handed and obvious about it.