He brought the receipts.
— Overton (@overton_news) March 26, 2026
Senator Fetterman takes a sledgehammer to the Democrat narrative on gas prices under President Trump.
FETTERMAN: “I checked where gas was a gallon, two years ago in 24 and it was around $3.60-3.65 a gallon, and the world wasn’t on fire.”
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In the video above, you'll notice that Senator Fetterman referred to a Sheetz- not Sheets- store/gas pump in York, Pennsylvania, not in New York. There is a total of 826 Sheetz stores in seven states in the USA, with Pennsylvania being the location of the greatest numbe (316). Eight of those are in York, located in central Pennsylvania, the region from which Fetterman hails.
Yet while the tweeter (Xer?) is wrong on that minor point, Senator Fetterman is wrong on the large point. On March 18, 2024, the average price in the USA for regular gas was $3.453 per gallon and a week later it was $3.523 per gallon.
That is 29 cents or, as they post on gasoline pumps, .29$ more per gallon than a year ago, and the price is rising weekly.
Fetterman undermines his own argument as he notes "when you're having a military engagement, of course you're going to find some fluctuation on it." But that's just the point. The price of a barrel of oil now is not rising for the same reason that it normally has. In the past, it has risen because we came out of a pandemic or because of r elatively normal, fluctuating market forces. It now is soaring because of an attack President Trump decided to launch.
The jump in energy prices is not the most important reason to oppose the Iran war. However, it is one reason and Tehran has proven that its ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and surge global economic insecurity is a powerful weapon. It will play a critical role in any negotiation between the USA/Israel and Iran and would put Iran in a stronger bargaining position than it would have been without this armed conflict.
Give John Fetterman credit for having the courage to buck the colleagues in his Party on an important issue. Give him absolutely no credit for being dangerously wrong.
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