NEW YORK: Americans will see prices at the pump fall “before long,” president Joe Biden said after tapping United States oil reserves to ease price pressures and risk a feud with the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec).
In a tweet while the president was in Nantucket, he said the US effort to ease gasoline prices spanned the globe, but will soon reach stations across the US. “It will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank,” he said.
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