What did Donald Trump claim about climate and energy on 27 Oct 2026?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
by the way, with all of this that we're doing, our gasoline prices are lower than when Barack Hussein Obama, our oil prices, gasoline, lower than they were with Obama and a guy named Crooked Joe Biden.
Gas was $4.27 a gallon the day before he spoke. It never reached $4 in any week of Obama's presidency, and it averaged $3.46 under Biden.
The U.S. average retail price of regular gasoline was $4.269 a gallon in the week of Oct. 26, 2026. Its highest weekly price during Barack Obama's presidency was $3.965 (May 9, 2011); under Joe Biden it averaged about $3.46, peaked at $5.006 (June 13, 2022) and was $3.109 in the week he left office (Energy Information Administration, weekly U.S. regular retail gasoline prices).
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- Midterm campaign rally in Lubbock, Texas.
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