Gas prices are putting the squeeze on families around the country. | Canva
Gas prices are putting the squeeze on families around the country. | Canva
Lawmakers and residents in Georgia are becoming increasingly frustrated with President Joe Biden as families around the country continue to struggle to pay for gas at the pump.
The frustration mainly stems from Biden's attempts to stifle energy production domestically by refusing to approve new drilling in the U.S. and ending some projects that may have increased the overall supply of oil.
"Biden won't unleash American energy because of environmental concerns," Rep. Andy Biggs from Arizona's 5th Congressional District said in a recent Twitter post. "Yet, he is shipping our oil to China — the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Talk about hypocrisy,"
Last month, the Biden administration reportedly exported 5 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to countries in Europe as well as Asia, Reuters reported. This has only served to further rile up critics of Biden.
On March 31, Biden attempted to increase the supply of oil in the U.S. by releasing up to 180 million barrels of crude oil from the same reserve over the next six months.
"[Gas prices] could come down fairly significantly," Biden said about the move. "It could come down [to] a better part of anything from 10 cents to 35 cents a gallon, it’s unknown at this point.”
A commonly critiqued action of the Biden administration was the canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline, which banned oil and gas leasing on federal land. It has provided around one-fifth of the total oil production in the U.S.
This was part of a series of executive orders that Biden signed when he took office prioritizing climate change prevention.
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