Gas costs more today than it did a few months ago, but it is less expensive than it was in 2008 and from 2011 to 2014. In the broader context, this is far from an emergency. The release of a small amount of oil from the Petroleum Reserve was, therefore, a token effort to prove that the federal government really does care about inflation. Biden feels our pain, in other words. It is his stock in trade.
Consider me unimpressed. This looks like something Trump would do.