During a visit to Los Angeles, Joe Biden brushed off concerns of $7 per gallon gas. While speaking briefly with reporters after getting tacos with Democrats in Los Angeles, he was pressed on the high gas prices. He clapped back, “Well, that’s always been the case here.” He then claimed prices are down nationwide from previous highs that hit records in U.S. history under his leadership.

Breitbart reports:

“You know, it’s not, what, nationwide, they came down about $1.35,” he said. “And they’re still down over a dollar.”

Thursday’s average for a gallon of gas in Los Angeles was $6.257, according to AAA.

Prices are going back up after Saudi Arabia and the OPEC+ nations agreed earlier this month to cut oil production by two million barrels a day.

When asked by reporters if he had a message to Saudi Arabia, Biden replied, “We’re about to talk to you.”

In a speech given earlier that day, Biden said, “[A] lot of it is the result of getting the cost of living at the gas pump down by more — now even in California now — by more than a dollar nationally and — since the start of summer.” He added, “[T]he price of gas is still too high, and we need to keep working to bring it down,” he said. “I’ll have more to say about that next week.”