“We’ll keep this factual and review your actual record, not your reboot,” an oil and gas trade group told Kamala Harris, responding to her video blaming President Donald Trump for high gas prices during a time of war.
In a video posted to social media during her visit to North Carolina Wednesday, Harris complains that the cost of a tank of gas has increased $15 “since the start of Trump’s war of choice.” In the background is a gas station sign showing a price of $3.97 a gallon.
Here in North Carolina and around the country, gas prices are too high. This is a direct result of Donald Trump's war of choice in Iran, and the American people are paying the price. pic.twitter.com/gsynOMKqC7
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 16, 2026
Replying to Harris’ video on X.com, the US Oil & Gas Association reminded Harris of how she defended the high cost of gas as vice president during the Biden Administration when the Russia-Ukraine war spiked prices:
“You told Americans those record prices were ‘a price to pay for democracy’ for Ukraine.
“But apparently the freedom of millions of Iranian citizens are not worth $3.97 a gallon now?”
Vice President Kamala Harris said the inflated costs in the U.S. were worth paying to penalize Russia over its invasion of Ukraine: “There is a price to pay for democracy,” adding that it is important to “stand with your friends,” she said. https://t.co/iSH3EbWD2W pic.twitter.com/m42wcLzWqB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 11, 2022
“Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that Americans will have to bear the burden of higher gas prices, but insisted that it was a cost worth paying to punish Russia for waging war on Ukraine,” The New Times reported on March 11, 2022, quoting Harris’ rationale.
“There is a price to pay for democracy. You got to stand with your friends,” Harris said during a joint news conference with the president of Romania.
The US Oil & Gas Association’s post goes on to list the ways Harris, in her past roles as senator and California attorney general, forced gas prices higher, such as co-sponsoring the Green New Deal, working to ban oil extraction via fracking, and repeatedly suing oil and gas producers.
“You even sued the Obama-Biden administration to block new offshore permits off California’s coast,” the post reminds Harris.
“The lawfare you pursued laid the foundation for the collapse of the California refining industry we are witnessing right now,” the trade group notes. “California still pays the nation’s highest gas prices — thanks to the taxes, mandates, and anti-production policies you championed for years.”
“Flying cross country (made possible by jet fuel) to North Carolina to make a video isn't going to change that, the post adds, throwing one of her favorite expressions back at her:
“And those are the facts - unburdened by what has been.”
