{"id":502723,"date":"2022-07-04T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502723"},"modified":"2022-07-04T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T05:11:17","slug":"jeff-bezos-lashes-out-at-joe-biden-over-call-for-lowering-of-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jeff-bezos-lashes-out-at-joe-biden-over-call-for-lowering-of-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos lashes out at Joe Biden over call for lowering of gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos criticised a tweet from US President Joe Biden calling for oil executives to reduce gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos was responding to Biden\u2019s criticism of companies running gas stations and setting prices for consumers. \u201cThis is a time of war and global peril,\u201d the president tweeted on Saturday. \u201cBring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you\u2019re paying for the product. And do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos tweeted on Saturday night: \u201cOuch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It\u2019s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos criticised a tweet from US President Joe Biden calling for oil executives to reduce gasoline prices. Bezos was responding to Biden\u2019s criticism of companies running gas stations and setting prices for consumers. \u201cThis is a time of war and global peril,\u201d the president tweeted on Saturday. \u201cBring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you\u2019re paying for the product. And do it now.\u201d Bezos tweeted on Saturday night: \u201cOuch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It\u2019s either straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}