President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that certain states have reached record-low gas prices, with prices as low as $1.98 per gallon. However, data from AAA and GasBuddy, a company that tracks gas prices at tens of thousands of stations across the country, shows that no state has an average lower than about $2.70 per gallon.
Trump repeated this inaccurate assertion multiple times this week, including during a commencement address at the University of Alabama. He even claimed that gasoline prices had hit $1.88 cents per gallon in three states. In reality, the national average on Thursday was around $3.19 per gallon, and the lowest Thursday average in any state was about $2.66 per gallon.
GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, Patrick De Haan, confirmed that not a single station has offered gas for under $2 per gallon, despite Trump’s claims. Even a special discount price of $1.99 per gallon at one Texas station was not reflective of the general price at that location.
Trump’s false claim about gas prices is part of a pattern of misinformation he has spread about the issue. The national average gas price on Friday was around $3.18 per gallon, which is up from January and not indicative of record-low prices.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/02/politics/gas-prices-trump-fact-check