“The price of gas is “down from over $5 when I took office.”
What PolitiFact found
When Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, the nationwide average price of gas was about $2.46 per gallon. Gasoline prices did exceed $5, but that peak came more than a year later in June 2022.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 27 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/27/remarks-by-president…
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