Since Psaki is out due to COVID she has Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre filling in for her and she is clearly not as talented at dodging questions. Jean-Pierre was asked how the Biden Admin is going to fix the rising gas prices and she basically said they have no idea.
REPORTER: And on what Secretary Granholm and what she was saying yesterday, what options, besides tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, does the President have to counteract higher gas prices?
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY: So, you know, we’ve — I’ve talked about this a couple of times. You know, we have — we don’t have an announcement yet on anything — anything to share at this time. You know, but we’re monitoring it. Right? We’re monitoring the prices and we’re making sure that we have tools in our toolbelts that we can — we can — we can try and use. But at this time, I don’t have anything new to share.
REPORTER: But just what else are you reviewing? Because Secretary Granholm has confirmed that is an option that’s on the table, and the President has said there are other tools that you could potentially use. So, could you just lay out what those other options are that he’s considering?
JEAN-PIERRE: So I don’t — again, I don’t — I don’t have anything specific here. The President spoke to this recently. But he’s also asked the FTC to crack down on illegal pricing. Right? That is one thing that he did on gouging in the market. And the FTC is responding. But, also, we’re going to continue to monitor the situation and have a number of tools in our arsenal. As I just mentioned, I don’t have anything specific.
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Biden Spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre can’t name ANYTHING the Biden administration is doing to lower gas prices.
“I don’t have anything specific.” pic.twitter.com/9Rh3QKwXo0
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 8, 2021
This is poor leadership on whoever is actually running the White House. They should have at least said they are working on it. But it does seem like they are trying to inflate gas prices recently anyway. Biden has been talking about shutting down pipeline 5 in Michigan and that would definitely not bring down the prices.