evidence: High gas prices are quickly becoming a political liability for President Joe Biden – and like presidents before him, he has few options to bring them down. [...] Nearly a dozen Senate Democrats called on Biden on Monday to fight high gas prices by considering a release of barrels from the nation’s emergency oil stockpile, or even taking the more extreme step of banning oil exports. [...] For his part, Biden has blamed "the refusal of Russia or the OPEC nations to pump more oil" as a reason for high gas prices in the United States.