If Republicans Really Cared About High Gas Prices They Have The Power to Change Them

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Sarah Reese Jones
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My latest: "If Republicans really cared about gas prices, they have the power to actually do something about it, but it would involve hurting one of their most reliable donors."

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If Republicans Really Cared About High Gas Prices They Have The Power to Change Them
If Republicans really cared about gas prices, they have the power to actually do something about it, but it would involve hurting one of their most reliable donors.
11:21 AM · Mar 10, 2022

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/03/10/if-republicans-really-cared-about-high-gas-prices-they-have-the-power-to-change-them.html


Republicans have been wailing so much about higher gas prices somehow being the President’s fault, and yet as legislators, they have the power to actually do something about those high prices, whereas the President does not.

Republicans are so committed to this talking point that the New York Times was compelled to flunk them in a fact check entitled, “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices.”

Well, yes.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki has been doing real-time fact-checking of Republican talking points brought to us by the seems-to-enjoy-being-schooled Peter Doocy, of the Republican Talking Points Fox News. Psaki has a good track record of sticking to facts, but a neutral fact-check is worth a lot. So here it goes.

“They have pointed to the Biden administration’s policies on the Keystone XL pipeline and certain oil and gas leases, which have had little impact on prices.

While Republican lawmakers supported the ban, they asserted that the pain at the pump long preceded the war in Ukraine. Gas price hikes, they said, were the result of Mr. Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, the temporary halt on new drilling leases on public lands and the surrendering of “energy independence” — all incorrect assertions,” the New York Times reported.

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