GOP presidential candidates are blaming pump prices on President Joe Biden’s clean energy policies, even though the U.S. is churning out record amounts of oil.
, which he asserted “has shut down energy production in America.”
That’s data the White House rarely trumpets since it contradicts Biden’s 2020 campaign pledge to end new drilling on federal land, something his administration has not done. "Gasoline prices rise when the world’s major economies run hot, and fall when they’re not," said Amy Jaffe, a global affairs professor at New York University. | Marta Lavandier/AP Photo
The reality has been far different, said Ben Cahill, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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