1. Gas prices are still higher than they would be if LIEden had not shut down and limited oil pipelines, oil refineries, and oil production.
2. People realize that LIEden's drainings of the Strategic Reserve were minor manipulations of gas prices, having brief temporary effect.
3. Normal people cannot reduce gasoline usage to zero, do not have infinite budgets for buying the gasoline they use for necessities like going to work, going to the grocery store, going to church, etc., and are POed that LIEden has done nothing meaningful when effective measures are easily available (Drill, baby, drill!).