“$25
is only giving you half a tank,” Dacia, a customer who was buying a few
dollars of fuel, told The Epoch Times. “I probably have to go to
Indiana to find somewhere else cheaper. People don’t really have that
much money.
when the Biden administration has been pressed on rising gasoline prices, which have trended upward since November 2020, it has blamed Russia and exempted its own policies from fault.
At
a March 4 press conference, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told
reporters, “The reason why the price of gas is going up is not because
of steps the president has taken. They are President [Vladimir] Putin is invading Ukraine, and that is creating a great deal of instability in the global marketplace.”
In a Fact Check
released on March 7, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) pointed
out that oil exploration on federal lands rapidly declined under the
Obama administration.
“The reality is that federal lands vastly
underperform on oil and gas production versus state and private lands
because the federal government owns the majority of the mineral estate,”
the IER wrote.
“You can hold a lease without deciding to develop
or produce it based on the economics of that lease. Companies have
always made decisions based on lease economics,” Ingham said of TAEP.
“To suggest they’re not going to offer more leases until companies drill
what they have now—that’s making decisions on behalf of companies that
the administration is neither qualified nor authorized to make.”
Tim Stewart, president of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, had a straightforward response to Biden’s March 8 comments.
“Cut the crap and approve our permits.””
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