Americans won’t be asked to stay home to cut down on gas usage: White House
The White House is not engaging in speculation about how high crude oil prices will spike but said Americans will not be asked to stay home to cut down on gas usage.
"We’re neither going to make a prediction, or -- nor are we going to tell Americans to stay home," White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday.
Some House Democrats, such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Tuesday morning, have suggested that asking the federal government and private business to encourage working from home would ease the demand for fuel and help keep prices stable.
But Psaki dismissed the suggestion of ramping up work from home, as the administration has been working to move into the "endemic" phase of COVID-19, returning to more normalcy.
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Upon arriving in Texas on Tuesday afternoon, U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters that there's little he can do about the soaring gas prices, blaming Russia for sparking the crisis.
"They're gonna go up," Biden said about gas prices after arriving in Fort Worth. "Can't do much right now. Russia's responsible."
-ABC News’ Sarah Kolinovsky