Psaki is struggling to defend Biden’s numerous mistakes. He’s only been in office for about a year and there are just so many. This time a reporter asked about Biden saying that he was not going to be able to do anything about gas prices, and Psaki said you need to stop expecting so much from him.
Q “Let me ask you, if I can, about gas prices. The President was asked about that; a lot of Americans have been concerned about the cost to go to the pump these days.
He said, “I don’t see anything that’s going to happen in the meantime that’s going to significantly reduce gas prices.” He said, “I don’t have a near-term answer.” For Americans who are looking for an answer, what is the answer?”
MS. PSAKI: “Well, what is true — and I think the President as we — as I said earlier, was quite candid last night, as the American people should express from him — expect from him and from any president. And there are limitations to what any president can do, as it relates to gas prices.
Here’s what we have been doing: As we’ve said for some time, we are engaging broadly with OPEC on our concerns at a range of levels. And that is something we will continue to do.
As you know, Jake Sullivan, our National Security Advisor, recently met with leaders in Saudi Arabia and certainly raised this issue.
The President has also been concerned, as the administration has been, about what we have seen as rises in supply that have not been accompanied by drops in costs. That’s one of the reasons he’s asked the FTC to look into price gouging — something that is no doubt impacting, or we expect might be impacting, the cost of gas around the country.
So, we are working and using every single lever he can. But I think what people heard from him is some candor about what impacts we can have.”
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Stop it. Jen Psaki tells Americans to "expect" less from Biden when it comes to lowering gas prices.
— Kambree (@KamVTV) October 22, 2021
But Biden should have an answer for fixing gas prices since he caused the price hikes after he took office.
Biden canceled “the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline as one of his first acts in office was seen as a highly anti-competitive practice, by oil producers as well as Canada, which would like to compete in the world market by selling crude oil to the United State. What is more anti-competitive than the government denying pipeline companies the right to compete in the marketplace? What could be more anti-competitive than a president canceling an $8 billion investment with the stroke of a pen? Now instead of buying oil from our northern neighbors, U.S. refiners source a similar grade from Iraq and Brazil.”
Biden should never have been put in this position, to begin with. His mental well-being is definitely in question and that should never be the case for the president of our country. In this case, Biden shouldn’t have shut down the Keystone Pipeline. If he had allowed that construction to be completed we’d be far less dependent on Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Columbia, for oil.