White House ideas to combat high gas prices include:

• Sending rebate cards to drivers to help them pay at gas stations

• Invoking the Defense Production Act to move diesel and other refined products if localized shortages happen

• Historic release of nation's oil reserves

• A letter to US refineries calling for more production and criticizing their profits

• Prodding the world's oil producers and coordinating the release from national reserves with U.S. allies

• Potentially telling governors to lower or waive their gas taxes

• Suspending the Jones Act, which would reduce shipping costs and make it cheaper to get gas from the Gulf Coast to the Eastern Seabord

• Imposing price controls and banning exports of U.S. energy

“Not only is there not an extant solution, but nobody thinks there’s going to be a compelling solution,” an outside economic adviser to the White House said. “They’re fighting about narrative rather than fighting about substance, because realistically, what are they going to do?”