defense production act over the price of gas. carley: the president s push for a gas tax holiday getting pushback from the democrats, warning this policy would at best achieve miniscule relief while blowing $10 billion hole in the highway trust fund that would need to be filleded if we want to fix crumbling bridges, advance the modern infrastructure system, and griff jenkins is live in washington can more. good morning. griff: good morning. the president s plan is combination of suspending federal gas tax until september and calling on states to suspend their respective gas tax and now issuing war-footing edick that oil companies lower their prices. watch. president biden: to companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, ukraine, these are not normal times. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect cost you are paying for the product. do it now, do it today. griff: the president s messaging bla
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decreasing the price of things is his number one priority. why do you think he wouldn t attend this meeting, griff? sitting down with executives wouldn t play well with the green side of his party? griff: i think that s a large part of it, indeed, carl and he reached back to 2019 campaign statement. the president made is clear before he got elected he wants to get rid of fossil fuel, for the crowd he appeases, he looks like he s then playing to their hand and trying to help them out and end of the day, interesting to see what the readout is if that is all we get from the read out shows there was any movement because the oil companies said, we took huge hits to profit through the pandemic and now trying to adjust to new green footing we re headed toward.