They started the war, broke your gas bill, now want credit for an 18-cent fix
Plan (drafter input)
Gas is at $4.52 a gallon nationally — up more than 50% since the Iran war started. The Energy Secretary goes on Meet the Press and says the administration is 'open to all ideas' including suspending the 18-cent federal gas tax. That's the plan. Meanwhile they started the war driving oil prices up in the first place. The kicker: Democrats proposed the gas tax suspension first and got ignored for months.
Reactive take on a named official with specific numbers — classic Joe territory. Gas prices hitting real people hard is a working-class bread-and-butter issue. Fresh lane from recent content.
special_message: Generate exactly 5 items: 1 with content_format='video' and 4 with content_format='hero_text'.
Body
Gas is $4.52 a gallon nationally. That's up more than 50% since the Iran war started. So what's the administration's big response? Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on Meet the Press and told Margaret Brennan the White House is 'open to all ideas' — including suspending the 18-cent federal gas tax.
Eighteen cents. That's the plan. Start a war that blows up global oil markets, watch prices crater ordinary people's grocery runs and commutes, and then float the same fix Democrats already proposed months ago and got completely ignored for. Democrats put the gas tax suspension on the table first. The administration didn't move. Now Wright is out here acting like they invented the idea.
And when Brennan asked if prices could hit $5, Wright said he 'can't predict the price of energy in the short term or even the medium term.' This is the Energy Secretary. He predicted below $3 by summer. It's May. It's $4.52. They manufactured this crisis, they can't fix it, and they're selling you the other party's leftover proposal as leadership. The 18 cents isn't a solution. It's a distraction from who broke the thing.
Caption
They caused the price spike, stole the Democrat fix, and called it leadership. $4.52 a gallon. #gasprices #energypolicy #trumpadministration #workingclass
Pipeline
- Hero image done fal · fal-ai/flux-pro/v1.1-ultratF9U-85bkwT7_hero.png$0.06api 10.9sMay 11, 2:28 PM
Chat References
No bot turns have referenced this post yet.