Posted on 10/19/2022 8:53:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed on Tuesday that Americans are saving money on gasoline under President Joe Biden.
The national average price for gasoline surpassed $5.00 per gallon this summer, even though prices at the pump are currently $3.85 per gallon, according to data from AAA, marking a nearly 62% increase since Biden assumed office at the beginning of last year. Jean-Pierre nevertheless contended that the recent decline is the fruit of the commander-in-chief’s work to decrease costs for Americans.
“Gas prices have fallen by $1.15 from their peak, which was not too long ago,” she told reporters at a press briefing. “The ninety-eighth consecutive-day decline this summer was fastest in over a decade. Every month, the typical two-driver family saves about $120 at the pump compared to where we were in mid-June. Every day, Americans save about $420 million at the pump compared to mid-June.”
Jean-Pierre, however, neglected to mention that prices were as low as $2.38 per gallon before Biden assumed office and $3.53 per gallon when Russia invaded Ukraine.
“Now, gas prices are falling again,” Jean-Pierre continued. “The average retail price is down by five cents over the last week. States that saw sharper increases in recent weeks are also seeing more rapid declines.”
Some regions are indeed witnessing especially severe rises in gas prices. For example, residents of California are paying an average of $5.94 per gallon for regular fuel and $6.59 for diesel.
Biden has emphasized green energy throughout his tenure while leasing less federal land for oil and gas drilling than any administration since the end of World War II. He has also presided over a decrease in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve from 638 million barrels to 409 million barrels, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Soon after his inauguration, Biden also nixed Keystone XL pipeline project expansions.
The White House announced on Tuesday that officials would release another 15 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by December as a completion of the 180 million barrels Biden vowed to release earlier this year. When one reporter pressed Jean-Pierre on why the release was necessary if gas prices are trending downward, she claimed that Americans would receive “a little bit of breathing room” as a result of the policy.
“President Biden has said for months how he is committed to doing everything that he can in his power to address Putin’s price hike,” Jean-Pierre said. “He has said this on almost every speech that you’ve heard him talk about when it comes to gas prices and what the American people are seeing and feeling at the pump. And he’s been delivering on that.”
Democratic officials have claimed that the high energy prices will accelerate a shift toward renewable power sources. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that the “pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas” would cause more Americans to seek benefits from electric vehicles. The Biden administration has set the “ambitious target” of ensuring that electric vehicles constitute 50% of car sales in the United States by 2030, according to a fact sheet from the White House.
Chomo Joe picked a menagerie of morons.
Richard “Rachel” Levine. (Yeah, I look at him and say “THAT’S who I want to get my medical advice from.”) Sam “Pup Play Tranny” Brinton. “YEAH. That’s who I want in charge of my nuclear power waste.) Kamala “The Cackle” Harris. Hunter Biden, the smartest guy he knows.
God help us all.
Trump left Whitehouse gas was $2.07
Biden within 6 months $3.89
Trying to use the furniture store “prices slashed” after raising prices doesn’t work too well on most of the citizens.
bingo. great analogy with the furniture prices....
Gaslighting is right- it used to cost $20 for 10 gallons of gas- it now costs $50 for 10 gallons in many places- and even $60 in some places- California is around $8.00 a gallon now in places-
I guess in the press secretaries opinion, spending $30 more for gasoline for 10 gallons is ‘saving money’
I wonder if anyone i n the press laughed at her and then questioned her?
CO2 production is down, people are cutting back and can’t afford driving.
Abortion is in the rise: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/
Sex changes for children are on the rise: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-change-treatment-for-kids-on-the-rise/
But best of all, ice cream sales have increased since Joe Biden took office and show no sign of slowing down! https://storebrands.com/ice-cream-market-continues-grow-report#:~:text=New%20data%20from%20Grand%20View,reach%20%24114.7%20billion%20by%202030
Now that’s real leadership: https://images.app.goo.gl/y8gEjq94rxXL31GQ8
And here I was absolutely thrilled to get diesel for 5.99 a gallon, cheapest I have seen it in the last year!
I bought my Dodge Ram 3 years ago, one of the big buying points was the fact that diesel fuel was about 50% cheaper than gasoline.
Diesel was about 2.39 a gallon, at the time gasoline was about 3.89
Now diesel is, on average about 6.29 a gallon and regular gasoline is about 5.89 a gallon.
THANKS JOE, YOU F#CKING BRAIN DAMAGED RETARD!!!!
YES: ELECTIONS DO HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
Yep....and she won’t be there long so it’s a quick buck to look foolish.
“...Dimjo...”
I heard a more accurate one on The Chris Plante Show...:
“Manchurian McGoo”
Or just now,
“Ayatolla Òbama”
Gasoline locally was below $2. (Under Trump).
For the first time since the 1960s, I was using gas to clean paint brushes!
LOL, it really is like a bad dream.
No money for a car - SAVING ON GAS!
No job - LESS MONEY SPENT ON FOOD!
No Job - LESS MONEY SPENT ON RENT!
Karine, “You don’t need no job, no car.....just vote Biden and Democrats and you’re better off.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Good post. Somebody has to repeat the truth of the how much gas used to cost versus the anti-fossil fuel Biden era.
How can Dems get away with their lies?
Have to dispute this one. Don't you remember CNN breathlessly reporting about Donald Trump getting extra ice cream? That was such a scandal that I'm surprised that the House of Representatives didn't draft articles of impeachment.
Only the ones who died from the vaccines.
Yes!
wow
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