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Carol Miller stated on August 30, 2023 in a post on X:

“Gas prices have skyrocketed since Joe Biden took office and continue to do so everyday.”

By Michelle Peribanez• October 6, 2023

Stephen Fincher stated on December 30, 2011 in an interview with the Union City Daily Messenger :

"Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon."

By Michael Collins• January 29, 2012

Facebook posts stated on March 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Comparing the price of oil and gas in June 2008 to March 2022 shows that oil companies are “price gouging.”

By Madison Czopek• March 17, 2022

Babur Lateef stated on March 26, 2011 in a YouTube video.:

Since Corey Stewart became chairman in November 2006, unemployment is up 150% and average home price sales are down $150,000.

By Jacob Geiger• March 30, 2011

Donald Trump stated on November 21, 2018 in a tweet:

Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia."

By Kyra Haas, Louis Jacobson• November 26, 2018

Facebook posts stated on May 02, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“(Retail) milk has gone up 7.5% since this time last year. The price farmers are paid has dropped 23%.”

By Eric Litke• May 15, 2020

Tim Michels stated on June 23, 2022 in Twitter:

The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline by Joe Biden “killed hundreds of jobs, sent gas prices way up.”

By Kelly Smits• July 21, 2022

Bobby Scott stated on January 09, 2015 in a news release.:

President Barack Obama’s policies "have resulted in gas prices being reduced from $3.07 per gallon when he was sworn in in 2009 to $2.30 today."

By Sean Gorman• January 18, 2015

Facebook posts stated on November 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Low gas prices in Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia show that Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone Pipeline project is to blame for U.S. prices.

By Tom Kertscher• December 1, 2021

Carol Miller stated on July 28, 2021 in an article in RealClearEnergy:

“We became a net exporter of natural gas in 2017, and until recently, our exports have exceeded our imports.”

By Elisa Contreras, Ava Peroni• October 5, 2021

Jeb Bush stated on September 29, 2015 in his energy plan:

"Since 2008, U.S. crude oil output has increased by over 80 percent, an increase of over 4 million barrels a day. That is the fastest increase in U.S. history."

By Joshua Gillin• October 2, 2015

Americans for Prosperity Georgia chapter stated on July 01, 2013 in an email:

Electricity rates are 40 percent higher in states that have required utility companies to use a certain amount of renewable energy such as solar power.

By Eric Stirgus• July 10, 2013

Anthony Tata stated on February 19, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

"The sanctions that we put on (Russia) for the Crimea annexation and meddling in Ukraine ... have absolutely crushed the ruble by 50 percent. And GDP from 2014 to 2016 is 50 percent down in Russia, as well."

By Lauren Carroll• February 21, 2017

Joe Biden stated on November 29, 2022 in a speech in Bay City, Mich.:

“Gas prices are down back to where they were before Russia invaded Ukraine.”

By Louis Jacobson• November 30, 2022

Jeff Merkley stated on March 04, 2011 in a letter to President Barack Obama:

Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would immediately lower gasoline prices

By Charles Pope• March 12, 2011

Facebook posts stated on March 30, 2012 in a post on Facebook:

"In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."

By Erin O'Neill• April 15, 2012

Raphael Warnock stated on April 05, 2022 in a letter to President Joe Biden:

“While the initial increase in oil prices resulted in a near instantaneous increase in gas prices for consumers, the subsequent decrease in crude oil prices has failed to meaningfully provide relief for Georgia's families at the pump.”

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• April 20, 2022

Mike Dovilla stated on March 13, 2012 in a letter to the editor:

Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant "we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump."

By Tom Feran• April 17, 2012

Rob Portman stated on April 26, 2011 in an online column:

Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will "immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."

By Stephen Koff• May 4, 2011

Rick Santorum stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.:

Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."

By Becky Bowers• January 24, 2012

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