When gas prices were rapidly rising, everybody remembers the blame game that the Biden White House was playing. High gas prices were because of “Putin’s price hike” combined with the greed from Big Oil and their price gouging (oddly enough that greed didn’t seem to exist until Biden took office and brought his policies with him).
When gas prices were skyrocketing (they’re still incredibly high compared to previous years and administrations) the Dem and media mantra was “presidents don’t control the price of gas!”
However, whenever there’s a drop of a few cents suddenly the Biden White House rushes out to credit the president and his policies. The difference is that now the media’s apparently not fast enough to play along and clearly Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain is a bit irritated:
Gas prices are falling, sharply and quickly.
I'm sure it will receive as much media coverage as when gas prices go up. https://t.co/wUTDvP0dsW
— Jeff Zients (@WHCOS) November 28, 2022
As usual, Klain is among Biden White House staffers who hope everybody has developed amnesia and is incapable of remembering how things were before the start of 2021.
Then: "the president has no control over gas prices. It's the fault of COVID, Putin and the one legged albino unicorn of global warming"
Now: "we're making prices go down. Sure, they're double of when Biden took office, and we've emptied our oil reserves, but isn't Biden great?" https://t.co/gIUt173tK1
— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) November 28, 2022
Biden obviously has control over gas prices but only when they’re dropping, but otherwise the blame lies elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/ItsChad/status/1597222366148694016
Klain of course didn’t mention that Biden has siphoned the country’s strategic reserve and is now allowing Chevron to produce and export oil from Venezuela:
The Treasury Department granted permission Saturday for oil giant Chevron to produce and export oil from Venezuela following the South American country’s decision to restart talks with opposition groups.
The move could add supply to the global oil market, which may ease fuel prices and speed the declines in U.S. gasoline prices that have been a political burden for President Joe Biden since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Oil produced in a dictatorship must be “cleaner” than oil produced in the United States, or something.
You literally just gave handouts to a socialist regime to pump oil, might want to sit this out https://t.co/FCpn8YeQIM
— Evan Power (@EvanPower) November 28, 2022
Speaking of that, the White House claimed that allowing Chevron to produce and export oil from Venezuela was not taken in response to high energy prices (does anybody buy that one?).
Still over $4, asshat. https://t.co/EEst6hveM9
— UltiMatt (@mattkg) November 28, 2022
Not long ago The Hill also helped Biden spin high gas prices, reporting that Hurricane Ian in Florida could have also contributed to the problem, but it appears that since then Biden has worked his magic by waving the wand that lowers gas prices.
i am still paying over $3.75/gal, but sure, whatever. https://t.co/NNUOR3azye
— kaitlin (@thefactualprep) November 28, 2022
Gas prices were $1.89 in the fall of 2020. They started rapidly climbing in January 2021. Try again. https://t.co/xMTNFXRe95
— His Excellency President Mike Anderson 🇺🇸 (@m_anderson2015) November 28, 2022
Biden literally promised to “end fossil fuel” while on the campaign trail in 2019:
“I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.”
Now these same people want us to believe this administration should be thanked for making gasoline so affordable (when it’s anything but)? Please.
https://twitter.com/ebeth360/status/1597226418878156800
https://twitter.com/JonQuays/status/1597228243945676800
The only fuel these people are experts on is the one that powers their gaslighting.
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Related:
Ron Klain really proud that the government built a website that didn’t crash
You know it’s bad for Biden & the Dems when Ron Klain thought THIS was worth bragging about
Chief of Staff Ron Klain wants it known that ‘The. Price. of. Gas. is. Going. Down.’
