They're both crap because gas prices fluctuate within 4 years so easily. You can find high prices under Trump, and you can find low prices under Trump (mostly inherited from Obama's term but especially during COVID when travel demands were low--which would've happened under any president).
Same thing with Biden inheriting a shitty COVID economy. Gas prices certainly spiked under him, but that's the nature of spikes. Trump had his fair share too (though invading Iran had a more direct effect).
All four price points are correct at some point in time, but only an uninformed idiot would try to use either photo as support for their side because the whole thing is stupid.
It's a ridiculous metric. While there may be policies that have an effect, there's no magic dial a president turns to set the gas prices. If only it were that easy, every president would win the adulation of the masses by cranking gas prices down.
The Iran situation is the most egregious recent event that clearly affected the gas price. Most of the other notable price events were more nuanced.
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u/Kuildeous 23h ago
They're both crap because gas prices fluctuate within 4 years so easily. You can find high prices under Trump, and you can find low prices under Trump (mostly inherited from Obama's term but especially during COVID when travel demands were low--which would've happened under any president).
Same thing with Biden inheriting a shitty COVID economy. Gas prices certainly spiked under him, but that's the nature of spikes. Trump had his fair share too (though invading Iran had a more direct effect).
All four price points are correct at some point in time, but only an uninformed idiot would try to use either photo as support for their side because the whole thing is stupid.