President Obama delivered remarks on his energy proposals at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md., on Thursday.
Obama and White House officials have been touting the administration's energy policies in interviews and speeches around the country, hoping to stem the political damage caused by rising gas prices.
“As long as gas prices are going up, people are going to feel like I’m not doing enough, and I understand that, because people get hurt when they are going to that gas station and seeing those prices rise every day,” Obama said in an interview with Florida’s WFTV Monday.
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Washington Post/ABC News poll released Monday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling gasoline prices, a finding that could blunt the election-year political gains he's racked up on account of the brightening economic picture.
The average national price for regular unleaded gas is $3.81, up from $3.51 a month ago, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report Thursday.
The Republican presidential field has been using this to hammer the president on the campaign trail in recent weeks.
"The reason I wanted to come to a gas station is I don't think the president quite gets it," Newt Gingrich said last week at a campaign event in Alabama. "There is no algae that's going to come out of this this summer. This is the dominant device by which the American people fill their cars and trucks and this in fact requires gasoline."
— Ben Geman contributed. This event has concluded.
