White House Tells Struggling Families To Take A Road Trip As Gas Prices Hit New High
The Trump administration demonstrated how out of touch with reality they are by urging Americans to take a road trip as gas prices hit a new high.
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More and more Americans are getting buried under the weight of escalating costs and inflation. Prices were high before Trump's Iran war, but the administration made the situation even worse by causing gas prices to skyrocket.
The Trump administration’s response has not been what any sane leadership would do. Instead of dealing with the economic crisis by ending the war in the Middle East, the White House has decided to pretend like everything is fine and hope that people don’t notice the rising gas prices.
Here was Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s response when asked about gas prices:
We live in a very different world, and I just don't think we've had other presidents who've been willing to see the threat and address the threat of Iran. And I think you're gonna see prices come down immediately. You saw yesterday energy prices came down below $100 a barrel. Yeah. I think we're at $93 this morning.
Don't quote me on that, but I was looking at it. I think it was like $92, $93 for Brent crude. So we're in a good place. We see the price of crude going down significantly recently, but when could we see that at the pump? Especially now we're getting into that summer blend gasoline.
90% of Americans take road trips for their summer vacation. First of all, we wanna encourage all Americans to take a road trip, whether you're gonna go two hours or two days to see your country. Everyone should come to Philadelphia, by the way. This is the... This is where it all started. Great history here. So if you're thinking about a summer road trip, come to Philadelphia.
But it's interesting the way gas stations work. When prices go up per barrel, that the next day, the price at the pump goes up. And as prices go down, it takes a little bit longer to ricochet through lower prices at the pump. That's the way they operate. But again, we have a lag time of probably a week to 10 days when you see a price per barrel go down to see prices reflected in the pumps across the country.
By the time Duffy was done talking, oil prices had gone back up again, so his notion that gas prices were going to fall was already disproven.
Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed that prices are falling while they are rising:
