President Donald Trump claimed in his State of the Union address that fuel costs are “now below $2.30 a gallon in most states, and in some places, $1.99 a gallon.”
But no state had a median fuel worth on Tuesday under $2.37 per gallon, according to AAA; solely two states had a median under $2.50 per gallon.
And whereas there are some particular person fuel stations promoting fuel for under $2 per gallon, they’re scarce. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum evaluation for the agency GasBuddy, mentioned throughout the speech that the agency discovered simply 4 stations throughout the nation under $2 (other than particular reductions) out of the roughly 150,000 stations the agency tracks, so about 0.00003% of the complete.
Trump may pretty say fuel costs have fallen throughout this presidency. They have declined from a nationwide common of $3.12 per gallon on his inauguration day in January 2025, in accordance with AAA, to a nationwide common of $2.95 per gallon on Tuesday.
Trump additionally claimed, “And when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline.”
We don’t know what Trump noticed, however the common worth for a gallon of common fuel in Iowa on the day of the January 27 speech was $2.57, in accordance with knowledge printed that day by AAA – and De Haan instructed NCS at the time that GasBuddy discovered simply 4 stations in the state promoting for $1.97 per gallon (other than particular reductions) out of 2,036 complete stations the agency tracks, so 0.19% of the complete.
Trump was fact-checked on this topic by an attendee at the Iowa speech he was referring to. When he spoke of fuel in Iowa being $1.95 or $1.85 per gallon, somebody in the crowd shouted, “No, $2.63,” in accordance with NCS reporter Steve Contorno, who was on scene. Contorno noticed that the fuel station proper exterior the venue the place Trump spoke was promoting for $2.69 per gallon.