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Fact or Fiction: Biden claims gas prices were over $5 when he started

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(KGTV) — During a speech on October 27 in Syracuse, President Joe Biden said “Today the most common price of gas in America is $3.39, down from over $5 when I took office.”

But those numbers are fiction.

On the day the President made his speech, the average price for gas in the country was $3.76, not $3.39.

On the week he took office in January 2021 gas averaged $2.39 a gallon nationally, not more than $5.