White House press secretary Jen Psaki sparred with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy over the rising costs of gas at a Monday press …
White House press secretary Jen Psaki sparred with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy over the rising costs of gas at a Monday press briefing. Doocy pressed Psaki on the administration’s response to the average gas price hitting $4.104 per gallon on Monday, the highest levels ever recorded in the country. The rise in costs has increased as the U.S. still imports Russian oil despite the crisis in Ukraine. “It sounds like you guys are blaming Putin for the increase in gas prices recently, but weren’t gas prices going up anyway because of post-pandemic supply chain issues?” Doocy asked. “I think there’s no question that as we have seen in an outside and analysts have conveyed this as well, the increase in the anticipated continued increase…that is a direct result of the invasion of Ukraine and also there was an anticipation of that was factored in as gas prices have gone up,” Psaki replied. Doocy then asked the reason the administration has not taken steps to pump oil domestically. “To be very clear, federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas to the continent — let me finish,” Psaki replied, as Doocy pushed back.
