3 Whoppers Joe Biden Just Told To Cover Up His Terrible Job Performance
President Joe Biden did his best at Friday morning's press conference to deflect attention from a surprisingly anemic jobs report.
By Chuck DeVore
December 3, 2021
It’s all in the spin — or “lies, damned lies, and statistics” if you will.
During President Joe Biden’s Friday morning press conference, he made three risible claims in quick succession — doing what he could to deflect attention from a surprisingly anemic jobs report: 210,000 jobs added, less than half of the 550,000 expected in November.
1. Oil Companies Are Creating High Prices For Consumers
First, he claimed credit for the drop in wholesale oil prices through his “largest ever” release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while encouraging India, Japan, United Kingdom, and even China to do the same — though he admitted that China hadn’t done so yet. This, he, said, caused oil and gas prices to drop, saying, “Since the end of October, the average weekly price of gasoline on the wholesale market has fallen around 10 percent.”
Of course, no word from the president on his administration’s war on domestic oil and gas, including canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, ramping up regulatory uncertainty by proposing an economically devastating methane rule. At the same time, he’s encouraging Russia’s Putin to produce more energy and giving the green light to Western Europe’s growing dependency on Russian natural gas via dropping efforts to prevent the completion of Putin’s Nordstream II gas pipeline under the Baltic.
He also failed to mention that one big reason oil prices could be declining is that the economy is stalling due to global fear of renewed (but ineffective) government lockdown efforts designed to make it look as if they’re doing something about new COVID-19 variants delta and omicron.
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