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On October 27th, 2022 US president Joe Biden claimed that "the most common price of gas in America is $3.39, down from over $5 when I took office."
This has been soundly debunked on many places across the 'net, including at CNN:
This has been soundly debunked on many places across the 'net, including at CNN:
Jordan Liles, on the other hand, writing on Snopes claimed that Biden was not only wrong about the figure when he took office, but that:External Quote:The most common price for a gallon of regular gas on the day he was inaugurated, January 20, 2021, was $2.39.
The most common price as of this Tuesday [the 25th] was $3.39 per gallon, the number Biden cited in the Thursday speech, and it had fallen to $3.29 per gallon as of Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/fact-check-biden-gas-prices/index.html
Here Liles/Snopes are confusing average (what Biden didn't say) with mode (ie, "most common", which is what he did say). As the CNN article points out, Biden was right about the mode price, but very very wrong about the price when he came into office - and, of course, the non-existent decrease in price.External Quote:Biden added that the national average for U.S. gas prices was $3.39 as of late October 2022, which also was false.
On Oct. 22, The Associated Press reported that "the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.82," which was quite different from $3.39. Similarly, the EIA reported a price of $3.87 on Oct. 17 and $3.77 on Oct. 24, also not too close to $3.39.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-gas-prices-over-5-dollars
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