The left wing of the party wants fuel costs to go up, because they think it will move the country towards alternative fuels more quickly
I think they want to funnel money through "climate change" scams.
There aren't enough metals for the batteries, or power in the grid, for EVs to be more than a minor fraction of vehicles right now.
Gas prices are partly 'caused by Ukraine and the EU making themselves dependent on Russian energy (again, something Trump was dead right on). But don't forget that the very first thing Biden did, his first act, was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. That would have had the biggest affect on prices. But we've also had 2 years lack of exploration and development, so there simply aren't the other sources available because he rejected the ethical oil from Canada and goes grovelling to the Saudi butchers instead.
Biden is what happens when you have someone hired for their ideology, and not their smarts. With a diversity hire check-box of a VP.
They are dangerously incompetent and obviously not really in charge of what is going on in the administration - he has card to tell him when to sit down like a good little boy. It's really run by extremist special interests groups.