Experts are predicting gas prices will only continue to climb while the White House is busy striking deals with other countries to import foreign oil. Biden has proven he will do anything to keep from retracting his executive orders to kill domestic pipelines and the American people are the ones paying for that pride and arrogance.
Political commentator ripped into Biden on Monday for delivering another ‘slap in the face to the American people’.
TOMI LAHREN: [Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris] think that this repeated talking point of green jobs and green energy is going to do the trick, but it simply will not, and here’s why. Guess what it takes to make these electric vehicles they are constantly taught? Well, it takes fossil fuels, and it takes emissions….
We have an energy crisis and if we can make it here at home, which we can, that is absolutely what we should be doing. Like in my home state of South Dakota which is still struggling and suffering from the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which that energy company TransCanada committed to making it net-zero emissions and also creating tens of thousands of jobs not only in South Dakota but around the country where people truly need those jobs. So to sit there and to preach to people how they should just buy electric vehicles, who can’t even afford to buy electric, that is when we have energy sitting right here that is cheap, affordable, it’s not only tone-deaf, but it’s a slap in the face to the American people.
Defending his administration, Biden said it is “simply not true” that his policies “are holding back domestic energy production.”
“Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pumped more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year,” he said.
“We’re approaching record levels of oil and gas production in the United States and we’re on track to set a record of oil production next,” he said, adding that in the U.S. “90% of onshore oil production takes place on land that isn’t owned by the federal government.”
Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told Fox News Digital that the national average is headed for $4.50 per gallon and “could go higher,” depending on developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“At this moment, given things can change, I think the national average could rise to $4.50/gal, but could go higher if there are escalations in the situation,” he said.