Disagree... If this is a wag the dog, gas prices have made it the worst wag the dog in history.
Not really a wag the dog, Biden didn't instigate this. But given that fact that Biden, like Obama, wants higher oil prices in the mistaken opinion that they make windmills and Chinese solar cells more attractive, and is making full use of this to attempt to deflect blame for prices at the pump.
Nah.
This is a “never let a crisis go to waste” moment.
The gas will go up $x and when when it comes down $x/2 we’ll all sigh and say, “Thank GOD Biden brought it down.”