Biden’s Remedy for High Gasoline Prices: Blame Oil Companies

  • Biden puts industry in cross hairs as gasoline prices rise
  • Industry sees ‘distraction from fundamental market shift’
A customer at a gas station in San Francisco.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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The Biden administration has a new response to soaring oil and gasoline prices it sees as politically perilous: blaming big oil.

The latest example came Thursday morning when White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain tweeted a link to an article about decreasing oil prices.