During a May press conference, President Joe Biden talked about the country’s high gas prices. He didn’t admit to planning them, as a recent social media post claimed.
By Samantha Putterman • June 6, 2022
"And what I’ve been able to do to keep it from getting even worse — and it’s bad — the price of gas at the pump is something that I told you, you heard me say before, it would be a matter of great discussion at my kitchen table when I was a kid growing up. It’s affecting a lot of families. But we have released over 200 and, I think, 57,000 — million barrels of oil, I should say. Us and the rest of the world we convinced to get involved. It’s helped, but it’s not been enough.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also affected gas prices in the United States. The U.S. and Europe reduced their use of Russian energy, which shrank available supplies here further. Hugh Daigle, a petroleum and geosystems engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told PolitiFact that"gasoline prices are still being driven by the COVID hangover as well as the geopolitical situation in Ukraine. Basically, all the movement in both oil and gasoline prices can nearly completely be explained by these two factors."
We rate claims that Biden admitted to planning to make gas prices high in the United States as False.
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