<p>Capital lawmakers, politicos, journalists &#8212; along with glitzy Hollywood celebrities &#8212; gathered on Saturday night for the annual &#8220;nerd prom,&#8221; the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner.</p>
<p>The night of frivolity usually ends with a comedian lightly roasting the president and the press, and this time that role was filled by Trevor Noah of &#8220;The Daily Show.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest if you didn&#8217;t come, I totally would have understood yeah, because these people have been so hard on you, which I don&#8217;t get,&#8221; Noah said to President Joe Biden, who was seated on the dais. &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know, I think ever since you&#8217;ve come into office things are really looking up. You know, gas is up, rent is up, food is up,&#8221; he said to laughter, even from the president.</p>
<p>Noah sure got that right.</p>
<p>When Biden moved into the White House on January 20, 2021, a gallon of regular gasoline cost an average of $2.37, <a href="https://www.gasbuddy.com/">according</a> to gasbuddy.com.</p>
<p>In early March, the national average rose to as high as $4.34. Today it&#8217;s nearly $4.20, the American Automobile Association (AAA) <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">reported</a> Monday.</p>
<p>&#8220;To be fair, gas prices moderated modestly toward the end of April, but remain above $4.00 a gallon,&#8221; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, said in a <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/biden-and-gas-prices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a> last week. &#8220;Since the start of the Biden Administration, gas prices are up over 80 percent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Addressing Biden directly, Holtz-Eakin said: &#8220;This record of futility drives home the basic economics of the situation: Either admit you want gas (and other carbon-based fuel) prices higher and sell it politically on the merits, or take some real, permanent action on domestic production that stands a chance of increasing supply enough to reduce gas prices.&#8221;</p>
<p>A chart compiled by gasbuddy.com shows that less than two months after Biden took office, the average price had jumped from $2.37 to about $2.85. A gallon topped $3 in May 2021, then soared to $3.25 by October. At the end of 2021, with the price nearing $3.50, Biden announced the U.S. Department of Energy would release 50 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).</p>
<p>One <a href="https://dcbusinessdaily.com/stories/624334183-american-action-forum-president-since-the-start-of-the-biden-administration-gas-prices-are-up-over-80">website</a>, DC Business Daily, has been keeping a &#8220;<a href="https://gasolinemiseryindex.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gasoline Misery Index,</a>&#8221; which &#8220;tracks how much more (or less) the average American consumer is paying for gasoline on an annualized basis.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in January 2021 the national average price per gallon of gasoline was $2.33. It has increased nearly 79% when compared to Friday&#8217;s national average price of $4.16. With a number that gasolinemiseryindex.com calls the Biden Misery Index, Americans are spending an average of $961 more per year on gasoline today since the president entered office in January,&#8221; the website wrote.</p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>

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