Gas prices have increased 50% since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, according to new analysis from Breitbart.
Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the average price of unleaded gasoline was 50% more in July 2024 than in January 2021.
During the second year of the Biden-Harris administration, gas prices broke record highs more than once.
The highest average price for unleaded gas, recorded on 14 June 2022, was $5.016, with diesel reaching an all-time high five days later, at $5.816.
Last Thursday, the average price of gas was $3.361, almost a full dollar more than the price when Trump left office in 2021. At its peak under Biden-Harris, gas was $2.62 more than when Trump left office.
The Democrats have blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, COVID supply-chain issues, and oil and gas companies.
In an interview, Nancy Pelosi said the “fossil-fuel industry” was to blame and the public knows it, adding that the public will “blame all of us if we don’t do something” about price rigging by oil and gas companies.
Breitbart notes that America’s auto-related woes don’t end there either.
“Car insurance premiums are up 54 percent since President Joe Biden and Harris took over in January 2021. New car prices jumped 19 percent since Biden and Harris took office, used cars and trucks rose 20 percent, and the average price of motor vehicle maintenance and repair has gone up 30 percent since January 2021.”
In recent days, including in her sit-down interview with Dana Bash on Thursday, Kamala Harris has indicated her renewed commitment to transitioning away from reliance on fossil fuels and the so-called Green New Deal.
“You mentioned the Green New Deal,” Harris told Bash.
“I have always believed—and I have worked on it—that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”
After the interview, the Harris campaign put out a statement saying that Harris does not support the Green New Deal.
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