Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (pictured) said President Joe Biden is “obsessed” with the issue of high gasoline prices, but said he has limited power to lower prices.
“He’s obsessed with the fact that gas prices are so high and people are hurting,” Granholm told CNN Tuesday during a trip to Louisiana. [bold, links added]
The average price of gasoline in the U.S. reached an all-time record of $4.60 a gallon Thursday, up more than 92% since January 2021 when Biden took office, federal energy data showed.
Granholm added that Biden had limited options when it came to lowering prices for consumers.
“The president doesn’t control the price,” the energy secretary added, according to CNN.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says Joe Biden is ‘obsessed’ with lowering gas prices.
Biden’s policies show he is obsessed with raising gas prices. pic.twitter.com/p0cBecbwEa
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) May 26, 2022
The Biden administration, meanwhile, has declared a war on fossil fuels, canceling all of the nation’s remaining offshore oil and gas lease sales and implementing tight restrictions on future onshore lease sales.
“This is becoming a pattern – the administration talks about the need for more supply and acts to restrict it,” Frank Macchiarola, the American Petroleum Institute’s senior vice president of policy, economics, and regulatory affairs, said in a statement following the administration’s May 11 decision to cancel three offshore lease sales.
Granholm’s remarks Tuesday came following a tour of a federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) facility in Bayou Choctaw, Louisiana.
While she suggested he has limited power over pump prices, Biden has ordered three separate SPR releases as pump prices have surged over the last six months, the latest of which he promised would lower prices by up to 35 cents a gallon.
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Well, when your Administration is LOADED with activists on WH staff and agency personnel who are IDEOLOGICALLY driven, what do you expect? The basic “pretzel logic” appears (to me) to be this: “If we can make fossil fuels too expensive, then “renewables” will be competitive faster.” I think they (also) have the faulty premise that certain technologies (i.e. batteries, solar & wind efficiencies, etc.) are a lot further developed than they are. I’m sure they think (misguidedly) that IF they FORCE their version of an “energy transition” based on arbitrary mandates & dates, they will ACCELERATE the transition from fossil fuels. Lacking ANY fundamental understanding of energy imperatives (cost, sustainability, energy & power density & scale), they pursue a strategy based on completely FALSE assumptions. Basically, they are WAY OUT over their skis in this arena. We better get an informed & thoughtful debate on national energy policy pretty quickly. Otherwise, this messs is only going to get worse…
Lies, lies, lies and more lies. It’s all they have and all they do.
Granholm should be fired,
indicted, prosecuted, convicted,
sentenced and executed.
And meanwhile lets see him make the sun stand still and turn water into wine
Biden’s polls are now before 30% and its been just over a year since he stole the election