Gas Prices

Washington DC

Description

Reviewing gas prices for the last 25 years shows some very interesting trends. May 1996 - Clinton 1.279 May 1997 - Clinton 1.200 May 1998 - Clinton 1.064 May 1999 - Clinton 1.131 May 2000 - Clinton 1.487 (Up about.20 per gallon overall. Staying up with average inflation) May 2001 - Bush 1.702 May 2002 - Bush 1.392 May 2003 - Bush 1.497 May 2004 - Bush 1.983 May 2005 - Bush 2.161 May 2006 - Bush 2.907 May 2007 - Bush 3.146 May 2008 - Bush 3.766 (Notice how gas prices more than double under Bush - A Republican) May 2009 - Obama 2.266 May 2010 - Obama 2.836 May 2011 - Obama 3.906 May 2012 - Obama 3.732 May 2013 - Obama 3.615 May 2014 - Obama 3.673 May 2015 - Obama 2.718 May 2016 - Obama 2.268 (Notice how gas prices wound up.002 higher when the Obama administration ended than when it began) May 2017 - Trump 2.391 May 2018 - Trump 2.901 May 2019 - Trump 2.859 May 2020 - Trump 1.870 (Notice how the price was going up about 30% higher than it had been under Obama until the Trump flu that killed 600,000 people and counting struck) May 2021 Biden - 2.985 (Basically back to what it was pre-Trump flu.) Source: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M