The latest spin from the left on gas prices is, to put it mildly, a convenient bit of selective memory. Democrats have been making noise about rising gas prices in the wake of the U.S. strike on Iran, hoping to make an affordability argument against President Donald Trump. There's just one problem: the numbers don't back them up, and if they think they can turn gas prices into a winning issue for them, they’re going to be disappointed.
CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday morning and noted that GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis told him two of the 10 largest single-day price increases in history happened in the same week as the Iran strike.
Oil jumped 36% — the largest one-week spike since 1983. Tapper cited Trump's own words to Reuters, where the president shrugged off the question with a blunt "If they rise, they rise," and asked Wright whether that was really the message the administration wanted to send to struggling consumers.
Wright didn't flinch. "The Trump administration has been all in on lowering energy prices, and I would say quite successfully," he told Tapper. "We have seen a dramatic decline in gasoline prices, in diesel prices. Soon, you will see it in electricity prices as well. So the Trump administration, in stark contrast to the Biden administration, his goal has been to lower energy prices, the Biden administration quite successful in raising energy prices.”
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Then he dropped the number Democrats really don't want you thinking about. "Gasoline today is still $1.50 a gallon cheaper than it was in the middle of the Biden administration," Wright said.
That's a huge difference that adds up rather quickly for those who fill up their tank regularly. The Biden years weren’t all that long ago, and we can all still remember what it was like. The Biden years were brutal on American consumers at the pump, and the media largely gave the administration a pass on it.
What the left doesn't want you to know about gas prices. pic.twitter.com/hFnNLDFHOX
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) March 8, 2026
“But you're right,” Wright told Tapper. “We want it back below $3 a gallon. And it will be again before too long.”
Tapper then pressed him on what that meant: “What do you mean by too long? How much longer?“
"Look, you never know exactly the time frame of this, but, in the worst case, this is a weeks, this is not a months thing."
He then pivoted to the broader strategic picture, explaining why the Iran strike matters beyond the immediate price bump at the pump. "Iran has continued to build up their capabilities, first a massive expansion of their missile program, so that they can shield the completion of their nuclear program," Wright said. "It is simply unacceptable for the United States, for the Middle East geography, and for the world economy to have a terrorist regime with nuclear weapons and a gigantic missile arsenal."
And then he said something that pretty much cuts the legs out from under every Democratic talking point on this issue: "They have raised energy prices for Americans for decades. It's finally going to come to an end."
.@SecretaryWright: Gasoline today is still $1.50/gallon cheaper than it was in the middle of the Biden administration, but we want it back below $3—and it will be again before too long...Iran has raised energy prices for Americans for decades. It's finally coming to an end. pic.twitter.com/VwNRWZLaoT
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 8, 2026
That's the context Democrats are leaving out when they clutch their pearls over a short-term price bump. Gas is still substantially cheaper than it was under Biden.
