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The national average price for regular gasoline dropped below $2.00 per gallon during Donald Trump’s first term — the low point came in April 2020 amid the COVID‑19 demand collapse, a fact tracked and...
Major fact‑checking organizations flagged several of the specific numeric claims President Trump made in his Dec. 17, 2025 address as false, misleading, or unsupported by the evidence: newsrooms and F...
Consumer prices rose modestly from 2024 to 2025: U.S. headline CPI shows roughly a 3.0% year‑over‑year increase in multiple monthly snapshots (3.0% for Jan and for the 12 months ending Sep 2025) and t...
Average retail gasoline prices during Donald Trump’s presidency (2017–2021) sat in the mid-to-high $2 per gallon range annually, lower than the highs reached in 2022 but similar to or slightly below a...
When President Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021, multiple contemporaneous data sources put the , with alternative measures showing a short-lived $2.25 reading earlier in January; these figure...
Across the two administrations the national average retail price of regular gasoline was lower under George W. Bush’s eight years (about $2.13/gal) than under Barack Obama’s eight years (about $2.96/g...
The national average retail price of regular gasoline in calendar year 2021 was about $3.29 per gallon (EIA/consumer surveys and aggregated trackers show 2021 as a rebound year after 2020) and average...
On December 7, 2024 the national average retail gasoline price was about $3.01 per gallon as prices dipped to early‑December lows in 2024 (EIA reporting referenced by the EIA and Automotive Fleet) . F...
When President Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20, 2021, contemporaneous national averages for regular gasoline clustered around , with most retail‑price trackers reporting values within a few ce...
U.S. gasoline production and refining capacity have been shaped more by market forces and long-term industry trends than by single administrations, while both Biden and Trump enacted policies that inf...
Nationalization in 1976 created PDVSA and, in the following decades, centralized Venezuela’s oil wealth under a state company that expanded proven reserves and production capacity, especially after a ...
BP’s Statistical Review historically lists Venezuela as the country with the world’s largest proven oil reserves, roughly , and multiple independent datasets and summaries continue to report the same ...
The national average retail price for regular gasoline around the time President Trump took office in January 2017 was roughly in the $2.35–$2.41 per gallon range, with the Energy Information Administ...
Global crude prices fell roughly 14–25% during portions of Trump’s second-term period as OPEC+ moved to increase production, and U.S. retail gasoline averages moved down modestly—around the low-$3 ran...
A definitive, unit-by-unit inventory of operational cokers and hydrocrackers on the U.S. Gulf Coast cannot be produced from the supplied reporting because the sources give refinery-level capacities an...
The federal government is not uniformly “forcing” coal-fired power plants to close; instead, a mix of stricter Environmental Protection Agency rules that effectively require heavy emissions controls a...
Reuters quantified December 2025 crude and gasoline market moves primarily by reporting traded futures settlement prices for Brent and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), percent changes session-to-se...
Monthly U.S. crude oil production rose overall from 2017 through 2019, peaked in 2019, then collapsed in 2020 amid the COVID-19 demand shock and only began recovering in late 2020 into 2021; annual pr...
Between 2017 and early 2020 OPEC+ production coordination coincided with upward pressure on global crude prices and, through that channel, on U.S. gasoline: academic analysis finds the coalition raise...
Climate models and scenario analyses produce a wide range of projected atmospheric CO2 concentrations for mid‑century because outcomes depend entirely on future emissions pathways and policy choices: ...