{"id":21524,"date":"2022-11-01T04:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:11:47","slug":"biden-accuses-oil-companies-of-war-profiteering-and-threatens-windfall-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/biden-accuses-oil-companies-of-war-profiteering-and-threatens-windfall-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden accuses oil companies of \u2018war profiteering\u2019 and threatens windfall tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>A week out from US midterm elections, president pleads with energy firms to invest profits in lowering costs for American consumers<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has accused oil companies of \u201cwar profiteering\u201d as he raised the possibility of imposing a windfall tax if companies don\u2019t boost domestic production.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks on Monday, just over a week away from the 8 November midterm elections, Biden criticised major oil companies for making record profits while refusing to help lower prices at the pump for American people. The president said he would look to Congress to levy tax penalties on oil companies if they don\u2019t begin to invest some of their profits in lowering costs for American consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/nov\/01\/biden-oil-companies-war-profiteering-windfall-tax-ukraine\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week out from US midterm elections, president pleads with energy firms to invest profits in lowering costs for American consumers President Joe Biden has accused oil companies of \u201cwar profiteering\u201d as he raised the possibility of imposing a windfall tax if companies don\u2019t boost domestic production. In remarks on Monday, just over a week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/biden-accuses-oil-companies-of-war-profiteering-and-threatens-windfall-tax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden accuses oil companies of \u2018war profiteering\u2019 and threatens windfall tax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5Ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21534,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions\/21534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}