The politician gets in the way. Sometimes they are right. Many times, they are wrong. We are peons to comfortable living. Joe the dildo will go to a privately owned ice cream shop over a government owned one. Jill was photographed last weekend going into one herself looking so superior with the secret service protecting her. People looking on or the peons making comments as she just shrugged it off. She was orgasim glory with the males protecting her from the rift raft.A President has little if any effect on gas prices going up.
They have certain tools to lower them
For instance Obama mandated that oil speculators had to physically take possession of the oil before they could resell it. That stopped the pyramid scheme speculation that drove gas prices up near $4 / gal during his admin
Biden had been releasing oil from the SOR and that has been the driving force for the current drop