“While the initial increase in oil prices resulted in a near instantaneous increase in gas prices for consumers, the subsequent decrease in crude oil prices has failed to meaningfully provide relief for Georgia's families at the pump.”
Raphael Warnock
U.S. Senator, D-GA. Claim dated 5 Apr 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
When oil prices rise rapidly, the costs at the pump go up rapidly. When the oil prices decline, the costs at the pump go down more slowly than consumers would like.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Raphael Warnock (U.S. Senator, D-GA) made this claim around 5 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 April 2022, 15 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Raphael Warnock has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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