Biden administration ‘looking at every tool in arsenal’ to address gas price hike

KTVU ^ | November 12, 2021 | Catherine Stoddard

[artichokegrower]

Ahead of the Thanksgiving travel season, gas prices have reached staggering highs with most states averaging $3.42 per gallon for regular gas, according to AAA.

California topped the list of states with the highest gas price averages at $4.68 per gallon for regular gas as of Friday.

[artichokegrower]

"The message to Americans is that we’re not just closely and directly monitoring the situation, but we’re looking at every tool in our arsenal, you mentioned some of them, while I don’t have anything to preview today, the president is quite focused on this as is the economic team and I would note again that we’ve taken a range of actions. We communicated with the FTC to crack down on illegal pricing, engaging with countries and entities abroad like OPEC on increasing supply and we’re looking at a range of options we have at our disposal," Psaki said.

Let's Go Brandon!

[tennmountainman]

Propaganda article for Biden.

[Paladin2]

Promises made, promises kept.

[Skywise]

Yeah - that’s newspeak for “we approve of this gas hike”

Deeds not words.

[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

How about using the tool to undo what you did “day one” of your administration, idiot.

If Biden had simply sat in a chair by the fireplace and did nothing, we’d all be fine.

[TigerClaws]

Exactly

Reopen the pupelines and stop punishing producers.

NYT reporter let the cat out of the bag asking Biden that thr prices going up was to ween the middle class off of fossil fuels. Insane.

[rktman]

Every tool? Wouldn’t that be every appointee in this cluster of an administration? 😕

[P.O.E.]

Tools in the arsenal?

More like toys in the attic.

[Spok]

Everything except allowing/encouraging domestic oil production. It’s a no brainer, Brandon.

[Robert DeLong]

What a lie. He's not looking a toil pipelines, except to close them down. He's not looking up reopening Federal land to find oil, and he is closing down operations to find oil everywhere else.

Furthermore, he is not looking at natural gas either.

[artichokegrower]

Just sweetens Hunter Biden’s deals with CEFC China Energy and Burisma Holdings Ltd. Why would a Chinese energy company pay Hunter $10 million a year consulting fees? He’s got the right connections. Shutting down US energy makes Chinese and Ukrainian energy more valuable.

[Starboard]

How about using the tool to undo what you did “day one” of your administration, idiot.

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Exactly. They refuse to consider this tool.

[Leaning Right]

> Reopen the pipelines and stop punishing producers. <

That would be the smart move. The dumb move would be to kick the can down the road and drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Biden will pick the dumb move.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Da Coyote]

The only tools that are in the arsenal of the White House collection o'cretins are the people themselves. They are most certainly tools. Let's go Brandon EFF JOE BIDEN

[RoosterRedux]

They’re “looking” at them? A lot of good that will do.

[arthurus]

Except the Trump solution which is the only practical approach, though the oilcos may well be rluctant to ramp up again as the Biden administration is pushing the all electric vehicle program at full speed. The oilcos are incentivized to maintain the current price rising level in order to make money before the government cancels their market.

[allendale]

Quite a dilemma for the Biden cabal. They would like nothing more than to close more pipelines, cap more wells and see the price of gas skyrocket. Yet their internal polling no doubt shows that these rising gas prices are enraging American voters and they are holding Democrats responsible. What to do? The vote in 2022 may be so overwhelming that the fraud won’t compensate. The loss of power is unthinkable. Oh well, the green people will just have to understand and wait.

[Rio]

They’ve got top men looking at it.

[charles_covington]

Maybe if they weren’t pissing off russia doing military exercises right off their coast maybe the Russians would actually sell us gas