President Biden he said the country is going through an “incredible transition” away from fossil fuels through the high gas prices being experienced across the country.
Biden made the statement on gasoline prices during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday.
“Here’s the situation. And when it comes to gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that’s happening that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less dependent on fossil fuels.” when this is over,” Biden said, appearing to justify or praise those sky-high prices Americans face at gas stations.
Biden’s comments come amid a stretch of record gasoline prices which the American Automobile Association says is “unprecedented.”
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The national average for a gallon of regular gas stands at $4.56 as of Monday, which is more than $.40 higher than just a month ago.
In parts of the country like CaliforniaHowever, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline reached $6.06 on Monday.
Biden added during Monday’s press conference that his administration has taken steps to prevent the price at the pump from rising further, such as releasing 1 million barrels of oil from the US strategic oil reserve.
“And what I’ve been able to do to keep it from getting even worse, and it’s bad. The price of gas at the pump is something I told you, you heard me say before, it would be a big topic of discussion at my kitchen table. when I was a kid. It’s affecting a lot of families,” Biden said.
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“But we have released over two hundred, I think, fifty-seven billion barrels of oil, I should say. We convinced ourselves and the rest of the world to get involved. It has helped, but it has not been enough.” he added she.
The White House has brushed aside some of the blame for rising gasoline prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling it a “Putin spike at the gas pump.”
“Let me say first that Americans are paying a higher price at the bomb because of President Putin’s actions,” then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in March. “This is a Putin increase at the gas pump, not caused by our sanctions.”
Biden’s comments on Monday were ridiculed by several republicans who said the president is now “saying the quiet part out loud now.”
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“They’re saying the quiet part out loud now. They are giving you pain at the pump because it is all part of their radical agenda,” said Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Los Angeles.
Biden instituted policies some say are anti-energy during his first hours in office, including canceling the Keystone XL pipeline that would have transported more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Canada to Texas, and “pausing” oil leases. oil and gas on federal lands. The Biden administration also canceled several federal oil and gas lease sales, some as recently as this month amid rising gas prices.
Louis Casiano, Kyle Morris, Jon Brown and Breck Dumas of Fox News contributed to this report.
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