Gas Prices Hit Four-Year Low as Trump Unveils $12 Billion Farm Aid Package
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
1. Gas Prices and Affordability
- Key Data Points:
- Biden-era peak: $5.16 per gallon (June 2022).
- Current average: $2.90 per gallon (December update).
- Diesel average: $3.67 per gallon.
- Regional Contrast: Southern and Midwestern states report prices below $2.50, while California remains high at $4.46.
2. Farm Aid and Trade Policy
- Main Argument: Trump proposes a $12 billion aid package for farmers impacted by tariffs and trade wars, funded by tariff revenue rather than taxpayer money.
- Details:
- Aid targets soybean and sorghum farmers hardest hit by China trade disputes.
- References past aid: $22 billion (2019) and $46 billion (2020).
- Underlying Issue: Farmers face rising costs, market uncertainty, and risk of consolidation favoring large industrial farms.
3. Illegal Immigration and Sanctuary States
- Sanctuary states (Illinois, California, New York) are releasing undocumented immigrants charged with serious crimes instead of honoring ICE detainers.
- Statistics:
- Illinois released 1,800 illegal aliens charged with crimes (including murder, assault, sex crimes).
- Over 4,000 active ICE detainers reportedly ignored.
- Specific Cases: Individuals were involved in kidnapping, sexual assault, and fatal DUI crashes.
- Political Criticism: Democratic leaders (Gov. Pritzker, Gov. Newsom, NYC Mayor-elect Mundani) are prioritizing illegal immigrants over public safety.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Affordability, it is going to be the issue of the midterm elections. |
| 0:10.0 | If there was an election today, it's the issue that Democrats are saying they believe they have the best footing on to go after Donald Trump, |
| 0:19.0 | saying that it's all his fault that affordability is not where you want it. |
| 0:23.5 | But then you look at prices, and there are massive successes that have happened that are the |
| 0:28.4 | complete opposite of what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were doing. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, |
| 0:34.6 | for example, pointing to now what is historic gas prices compared to Biden. |
| 0:40.6 | And the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, saying this about where the gas prices are today. |
| 0:46.5 | And, you know, I don't think there was, there definitely wasn't a time during the Biden administration |
| 0:50.8 | when the gas went below the price they came in of course they |
| 0:54.7 | came in during the pandemic when prices were very low because people weren't traveling as much |
| 1:00.0 | but but they basically you look at a chart and it's it's it's pretty amazing the way it just |
| 1:06.8 | stayed up there it did come down for the high point of five bucks a gallon, but it never really came down significantly enough for American car users. |
| 1:16.6 | Imagine if Harris had won the election, where would gasoline prices be today? How would American consumers feel? |
| 1:25.6 | I guess you could visit California and get a preview of that where gasoline prices are over 50% |
| 1:32.3 | than higher than the national average. |
| 1:34.3 | Those are political choices. |
| 1:36.3 | They're not unfortunate facts. |
| 1:38.3 | They're political choices to make energy expensive. |
| 1:40.3 | Now, political choices deliberately to make gas prices expensive. You also go back to the |
| 1:48.1 | chart that he was referring to. And that chart is one that truly is incredible. When Joe Biden became |
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