It is an election year. Whatever influence it can exert, strings it can pull, coercion it can muster, the Dems will try to find a way to crash oil prices or lessen the impact of their policies, so we can all be grateful that gas is only 2.3X as expensive, beef is off the frigging charts, and peaches are only $7/lb (recently observed price in a grocery store).
I can only hope the real, live, voters have longer memories, because a significant fraction of the Democrat electorate does not buy gas or groceries (because either they do not exist or they are dead).