Inconvenient truth for the Trump Administration:
The 5 states with the biggest gas price increases are all Republican-led states.
Are those big price increases due to their state energy policies?
Burgum blames high national gas price average on renewable energy:
I have to smile every time I see on a screen the national average for gasoline. The price of gasoline varies across our whole country largely right now by state policy and state taxes, not by the underlying fundamentals.
About half the states that went down this path where they overrotated towards we're going to have energy transition. We're going to move from affordable, reliable secure American energy and we're going to rely on intermittent, highly subsidized, weather-dependent sources of energy, they've got substantially higher energy prices than the states that don't.
California was dependent on oil coming from the strait of hormuz. They are going to have high gas prices. You can thank Gavin Newsom for that and their state legislature for the policies they put in. That has nothing to do with the strait of hormuz.