Publicly challenging the President of the United States is not within everyone's reach.
Except from one of the biggest American bosses: Jeff Bezos, chairman of the Board of Directors of Amazon.
While inflation is also rising across the Atlantic and in particular affecting the price at the pump, Joe Biden spoke directly to the oil industry on Saturday: “
My message to companies that operate service stations and set prices at the pump is simple: we are in a time of war and global peril.
Before
“calling them to
(reduce)
the price that
(they)
charge at the pump to reflect the cost that
It was enough to arouse the ire of the founder of Amazon.
“
Inflation is far too big a problem for the White House to continue making such statements
,” Jeff Bezos quipped on Sunday.
According to him, Joe Biden's call
is "either an attempt at diversion or a deep misunderstanding of the basic dynamics of the market."
In June, the price of the balloon, which is equivalent to approximately 3.8 liters, exceeded the threshold of 5 dollars in the United States.
Even if the latter has dropped a little since then.
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Stung, the White House replied on Twitter via its spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, that
"crude prices have fallen by about $15 over the past month".
And the Biden administration didn't stop there when it came to the entrepreneur.
John Kirby, head of communications, drew.
“
The president is working very, very hard, on many fronts to try to reduce prices
,” he defended on Fox News on Sunday.
The opportunity to defend the proposals of the president put in the debate: to suspend the federal tax on gasoline during the summer or to draw massively on the strategic oil reserves.
