White House celebrates 50 days of gas prices dropping 80 cents – but STILL higher than last year

Too soon to celebrate? White House brags about gas prices dropping 80 cents in 50 days – even though they are STILL higher than last year – as Karine Jean-Pierre credits Biden tackling the ‘Putin Price Hike’

• White House officials have been eager to seize credit for the steepest drop in gas prices seen in more than a decade
• When prices were rising, Biden officials blamed it on Putin’s invasion and said the president had very little control over costs at the pump 
• The average cost of gas nationwide on Wednesday is $4.16, down from a record-high that surpassed $5 per gallon in mid-June
• ‘Prices are coming down even as Putin’s war continues to put pressure on global energy supplies,’ Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said

By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com