NPR | Why it’s so hard for world leaders to bring down oil and gasoline prices

The global energy market and U.S. policymakers have several levers they can pull — and are pulling — to try to bring prices down.

But those tools can only go so far.

“The levers that we have in the short term are very limited,” says Avery Ash, the CEO of the energy security and national security nonprofit SAFE. “The worst time to try to be solving a crisis is when you’re in a crisis.”

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