Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is pointing the finger at Democratic state officials for the current surge in gas prices. In a recent interview on Fox News with Aishah Hasnie, he claimed that regional costs are largely driven by local policy rather than the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
According to The Hill, Burgum argued, “The price of gasoline varies across our whole country largely right now by state policy and state taxes, not by the underlying fundamentals.” Instead, he pointed at the specific tax structures and energy requirements of individual states. He specifically highlighted California as a prime example of where these costs are essentially “self-inflicted.”
