Big Oil and Environmental Groups Unite to Oppose Biden’s Gas Gambit

Biden Calls on Big Oil to Increase Refining Capacity
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President Joe Biden’s latest plan to attack high gasoline prices is uniting normally warring environmentalists and oil industry leaders who have found common ground blasting it as a political gimmick.

Biden is set Wednesday to call on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal tax, though it’s unclear he could muster enough support from his own Democratic party for the pause. Opposition from across the political spectrum is only complicating the push.