Biden team asks oil industry for help
to tame gas prices
Posted By: Come And Take It, 10/14/2021 7:03:53 PM
The White House has been consulting with the oil industry to seek a remedy for rising gasoline prices as surging inflation threatens to tarnish the economic recovery, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The latest outreach to the oil industry is an awkward shift for the Biden administration, which has pledged to move the country away from fossil fuels and has drawn criticism from the industry and Republicans for pausing lease sales of federal land for oil and gas development.
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Drooly Joe goes hat in hand to beg for help from the industry he has spent the last 50 years vilifying. GFY, Lunch Bucket.