That Marshall poll polled 845 peole and skewed democrat.
Ge0, the F&M poll is the only poll I have seen this year in in which including JFK Jr INCREASES the vote for either Biden or Trump. This screwy result isn’t “explained” by saying the sample skewed Democrat. But, thanks for playing the game.
Yahoo Finance.com
Rick Newman·Senior Columnist
Fri, Apr 5, 2024
Biden is getting antsy about rising gas prices
Seems to have internal approval rating linked to gas prices
It’s not part of his campaign pitch, but President Joe Biden is determined to keep a lid on gas prices as he runs for reelection. Gasoline prices have been drifting upward this year, reminding voters of one of Biden’s biggest liabilities.
While Biden doesn’t have to buy his own gas as president, he was still deeply stung by the run-up in prices in 2022. Biden’s approval rating sank as prices for gas and many other things were spiking, and it has never recovered. Gas prices moderated in 2023, but they’re now drifting back up, from around $3.20 per gallon at the beginning of January to about $3.60 now.
A recent run-up in oil prices and rising tensions in the Middle East suggest gasoline could get pricier still. Biden doesn’t want to call attention to rising energy costs, but he’s taking several behind-the-scenes steps to help keep oil supplies abundant and make sure gasoline doesn’t hit the touchy $4 per gallon mark.
The Department of Energy, for instance, recently canceled two major purchases of oil for the US strategic Reserve, citing high prices. Biden released about 230 million barrels of oil from the reserve in 2022 and 2023, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent prices soaring and gasoline peaked at $5 per gallon. The DOE began slowly refilling the reserve last summer.
With WTI crude oil, the US benchmark, trading at around $87 per barrel, the DOE said it was protecting “the taxpayer’s interest” by declining to buy oil above its target price of $79. But there might be other reasons.
“The Department may have decided it does not want to risk driving prices any higher,” ClearView Energy Partners surmised in an April 3 analysis. Any new demand, whether from the government or the private sector, puts upward pressure on prices, and it’s clearly not in Biden’s interest to do that.
The Biden administration has also leaned on Ukraine to curtail its new campaign to attack oil refineries deep inside Russia. More than two years into the war, Ukraine has finally developed weapons with the range to attack infrastructure inside Russia, just as Russia is doing in Ukraine. It’s a legitimate wartime tactic meant to damage the fuel supplies Russia needs to wage war, and also to crimp one of the main sources of Russian revenue.
But Washington, Ukraine’s supposed ally, has beseeched Ukraine to stop the attacks out of fear that the loss of Russian petroleum products on global markets could raise prices for Americans.
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