Walker, not Evers, came up with the $1 figure
Says Tony Evers will "raise the gas tax by as much as a dollar a gallon."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Prices are up, but not that high
"El precio de combustible ha aumentado un 25% este año" / "The price of gas has increased 25% this year."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
Tax money can be used to add carpool and toll lanes
"This new gas tax does not increase (road) capacity anywhere in the state. It will build no new lanes of freeways. If Californians didn’t like their traffic before, they’re going to like it even less when they’re stuck in the exact same traffic and paying more for their gas."
— PolitiFact California on Thursday, December 14th, 2017
American refineries will be the primary buyers
Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, November 20th, 2014
Remember that recession?
Says Obama policies contributed to gas prices rising from $1.89 in January 2009 to $3.51 today.
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Outlier of a study on a long-dead bill
A recent study of a proposed cap-and-trade policy’s effect on Wisconsin consumers showed it could "raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent" by 2030.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, April 28th, 2013
And Langevin could have fixed this???
"When Congressman Langevin took office, gas was around $1.70 per gallon, and now it is near $4 per gallon."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Monday, October 8th, 2012
The price is right. The blame is off the mark
The price of gasoline was at $1.85 a gallon when President Barack Obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 24th, 2012
It's a far piece from becoming black gold
The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of "more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Other factors play a much bigger role
"The failed economic policies" of President Barack Obama, the Democrats and the Federal Reserve "are making gas prices higher while America’s economy is running on fumes."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, May 4th, 2012
What about the price spike in 2008?
Gas prices have gone up 99 percent since Obama became president, "the highest gas price increase since Carter."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, April 29th, 2012
California, maybe
Says gas costs $4.50 a gallon.
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
You might remember that housing bubble
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012