On October 27th, Joe Biden made the following claim. “Today, the most common price of gas in America is $3.39 – down from over $5 when I took office.”
Remarkably even CNN & MSN are fact checking it as a false statement.
CNN: In previous remarks, Biden has discussed the state of gas prices in relation to the Russian invasion or the summer peak, not in relation to when he took office. Regardless of his intentions in his remarks on Thursday, though, the price of gas might well be the single most important price in the midterm election campaign, and this speech was the second this fall in which Biden described it inaccurately – both times in a way that made it sound more impressive.
MSN: During a Thursday speech in Syracuse, New York, Biden accurately said that gas prices, now averaging about $3.76 per gallon, have declined by roughly $1.25 since this year’s June peak of over $5 per gallon. But then he claimed, “Today, the most common price of gas in America is $3.39 – down from over $5 when I took office.” People in the audience applauded.
On January 21st, 2021 gas prices were on average $2.39 per gallon which is a far cry from over $5.00. This was yet another false statement Joe Biden has made during his presidency and he continues to lie in order to make himself look good while pointing at Republicans. People may be thinking ‘well, maybe he just doesn’t remember’ but that would simply mean he is incompetent. Most of us know he’s incompetent but in this case, he is lying and figures if he can get enough people to believe him, midterms may go his way.
If you look at the AAA website today, it says the national average is $3.76 and the cheapest gas is primarily in the Southeast states. Obviously when people are talking gas prices, they are talking on an average basis but many states are not seeing anything close to $3.76 per gallon,
My last post on gas prices was less than two weeks ago so I am not going to show what each of the six states I’m following are at today. Instead, you can view the different posts below since January 2021.
Compare previous posts:
2021: January1, January2, February, March, April, May, July, August, & Dec
2022: March1, March2, April, June, August, September, October
Information coming from AAA
