Average gas price approaches record high under Trump

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGas prices under President Trump's second term have averaged three dollars and forty-five point eight cents a gallon, just above Biden's four-year figure of three forty-five point five.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo that's a record, and I do love a record. Is it the good kind of record, where somebody gets a trophy?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Financial Times says it's on the verge of the highest average for any administration. Nobody gets a trophy. You get a receipt.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the national average hit four dollars and seventeen cents on Sunday, according to AAA.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIn the 2024 campaign, he pledged to slash it to two dollars.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo dollars. And we're at four seventeen. Up more than a third since January twenty twenty-five.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOkay, but the White House says prices were higher under the last administration once you adjust for inflation. Is that the number on the pump?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNo. The pump doesn't adjust. It just charges.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDiesel hit a record six fifty-three in September and sits around six thirty now. Who pays for that one, Hank? Everybody who buys a sandwich?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAt a rally in Perry, Georgia, he said gas prices are gonna come way down.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe average that day was four forty-two. And Reuters and Ipsos have his approval at thirty-one percent.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwo dollars a gallon. Did anybody keep the receipt for that one?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was a promise. Those don't come with one.