Ep. 156: The Real Reason Behind the Gas Price Hike
The Liz Wheeler Show
Blaze Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Compared to one year ago today, gas prices have doubled. |
| 0:05.0 | It is now twice as expensive to fill up your gas tank as it was on this day in 2021. |
| 0:10.6 | This is, of course, Biden's tenure in office. |
| 0:13.4 | This coincides exactly with the Biden administration and the policies regarding energy, regarding |
| 0:18.4 | climate change, regarding oil, regarding the spending, Biden's entire administration. |
| 0:24.2 | This is the result of the Biden administration's policies. |
| 0:26.5 | Listen to this number. |
| 0:27.7 | On the day that Joe Biden took office, the average gas price across the country was $2.39 |
| 0:33.4 | a gallon. |
| 0:34.8 | Fast forward to today, one year later, one year and several months later, if you want |
| 0:38.5 | to be precise, the average gas price is over $4.44. |
| 0:44.5 | That's on average throughout the whole country. |
| 0:46.1 | If you go to California, specifically, the average gas price in the state of California |
| 0:49.7 | is $6.34. |
| 0:52.9 | Who can afford that? |
| 0:54.4 | Who can afford to commute back and forth to work when it costs $100 to fill up your gas |
| 1:00.1 | tank once a week just to drive your kids back and forth from school to go to work to try |
| 1:05.0 | to bring in a paycheck that you're spending all on these gas prices? |
| 1:08.3 | The question that we should be asking is, do Americans feel good about the state of the |
| 1:14.6 | economy? |
| 1:16.0 | Do they feel good about the inflation that they're facing and the price hikes, the shortages |
| 1:21.9 | of food that we might be facing? |
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