Senior White House aides huddled multiple times this week to discuss policy options to keep a lid on gasoline prices, officials told CNN, as prices continued rising steadily in recent weeks amid strong economic demand, refinery issues, extreme weather, and geopolitical tensions. The Biden administration has been monitoring the rise in prices throughout the summer, with officials acknowledging they’ve begun regularly checking online price charts for the first time since they came down from their peak. “One of the first things I do every morning is click on the AAA gas price,” Jared Bernstein, the White House’s chief economist, told reporters this week. President Joe Biden, speaking Thursday in Maryland on his economic plan, acknowledged that energy prices remain a persistent problem for consumers. “We have a lot more to do,” Biden told the audience, to applause, at Prince George’s County Community College.

Source: CNN September 16, 2023 04:41 UTC