The Biden administration has gone to unprecedented lengths to deceive the American people about gas costs before the November midterm elections, which are just around the corner. It’s been going on for a while, but President Joe Biden’s recent assertion that “the most typical price of petrol in America is $3.39” and that this is “down from nearly $5” when he began office was the most egregious example of falsehood. His comments from this past Monday showed that this pattern of gaslighting is not an isolated incident.
Biden began by noting, “is a very brief remark, but an important one in my view.” At least in one respect, he was correct.
The president has made it a practice to attribute an increase in gas prices to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite the fact that these increases were already well underway before the assault. Biden said that “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in March” caused gas prices to skyrocket everywhere, which was obviously not the case as the invasion really occurred in February. Gas prices have dropped because of the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve, he continued.
When it comes to oil production “here at home in America,” Biden has chosen to let dictatorships like Venezuela’s instead of drilling for more oil himself. Repeated requests for OPEC to raise output have been met with silence, further embarrassing him.
As he has done before, the president criticized the oil business, saying that its “profits are a windfall from conflict.”
Right after Biden finished speaking, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel issued a statement condemning his lies. “It’s a lie, and Joe Biden is the one telling it. The energy industry in the United States has been under assault by President Biden and the Democrats in Congress from his first day in office. The American people are aware that gas costs have increased, food prices have increased, and real incomes have decreased since Biden and the Democrats took office. Voting Republican is the most effective method to bring down gas costs, “…she remarked.
It is a fact that gas prices have been changing with warnings about going up under the Biden administration and that the president has drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to dangerously low crisis levels.
Recent surveys conducted by CBS News and NBC News demonstrate that rising gas costs are a legitimate issue for the American public, with the former survey finding that people are concerned prices would continue to climb if Democrats maintain control of Congress.