Trump: Gas Prices Going Up ‘Bigger Than a Tax Increase’

By Melanie Arter | March 17, 2021 | 11:55am EDT

 

 

 

An employee of a gas station adjusts gasoline pump prices as they continue to fall with the oil market in turmoil on April 21, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – Gas prices are going up “at a far more rapid rate than anyone’s seen in a long time,” former President Donald Trump said Tuesday, predicting a $1 to $3 increase, which he said is bigger than a tax increase.

In an interview with “Fox News Primetime,” Trump pointed out that the economy “was recovering” under his administration twice.

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