Trans Secretary Sean Duffy and Fox host Charlie Hurt showed off their doublespeak skills by crediting Trump for keeping gas prices down even as diesel hits record highs.
HURT: Quickly, I wanna ask you about diesel prices. Diesel prices have reached a record high for all time. Um, yet, uh, we’re, uh, you know, obviously there’s a lot going on in the world.
Uh, the vice president saying yesterday that, uh, a lot of what the administration has done has kept the… That they’d be a lot higher if it were not for the efforts of the administration.
DUFFY: Yeah, so e- … I think the, the… when you look at diesel, you have to look at the, um, at Russia and Ukraine. And, uh, Russia was a major exporter, the second-biggest exporter in the world of diesel. They’ve stopped their exports, so that puts pressure on a global market.
But, uh, President Trump has, uh, uh, pushed an American energy dominance. We are producing more energy now than ever in the past. We need to, uh, refine more capacity. Um, and just think about this, though, as we come into political season. It’s Republicans who have pushed, uh, or are trying to push more production and drive prices down. It’s the Democrats who have always wanted, uh, energy prices to come up and force you into an EV. Um, and so it’s rich now that they’re like- … “Hey, we… We’re really upset about, uh, you know, high energy prices.” We’re gonna resolve this issue in Iran and in, and, uh, in Russia, and you’re gonna see historic low prices as we look to the future.
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