The White House went on defense on Tuesday over billionaire Jeff Bezos’ criticism of President Biden’s haranguing of gas companies for turning a profit amid “a time of war and global peril.”
“We completely disagree with Jeff Bezos,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. “We will continue to call on everyone along that distribution chain… from oil companies to refineries to distributors to retailers, to pass their lower costs through to consumers.”
On Saturday, Mr. Biden put gas stations on blast over Twitter, as Americans hit the road for the weekend amid skyrocketing gas prices which the White House has, for months, struggled to gain control over.