Randy Feenstra Campaigned on Lowering Gas Prices. They’re Up 55 Cents This Week.

Iowa leads the Midwest with the biggest spike in gas prices over the last week

DES MOINES – Randy Feenstra has campaigned on lowering gas prices, promising last month to “reduce prices at the gas station” and telling Iowans that “gas prices are at their lowest levels in years thanks to President Trump!” Now, under Feenstra’s watch, gas prices in Iowa are up 55 cents in the last week alone.

According to GasBuddy, Iowa leads the Midwest with the biggest spike in both gas prices and diesel averages over the last week, and is tied with Texas for the highest spike in diesel costs nationwide. Feenstra tweeted eight times about gas prices since January, but as Iowans now see costs spike at the pump, he’s refusing to speak out.

REMINDER: Feenstra leads the E15 council in Congress. He broke his promise to Iowa farmers to deliver a deal on year-round E15 by February 25, which would lower gas prices nationwide and boost demand for corn. Feenstra’s E15 council only exists because he caved to his D.C. party bosses and refused to stop them from stripping year-round E15 from January’s government funding bill and failed to include E15 in the long-delayed Farm Bill.

From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:

“Randy Feenstra has campaigned on lowering gas prices, telling Iowans he would lower costs at the pump and put more money back in their pockets. Now, gas prices are up 55 cents in Iowa in the last week alone on Feenstra’s watch, and surging diesel costs are about to make everything more expensive for farmers and working families. The only thing Feenstra is taking to ‘new heights’ is Iowans’ cost of living.”

Iowans are feeling the squeeze from skyrocketing gas prices:

• Gas prices have surged to $3.20 a gallon in Iowa as of Tuesday evening.

• In Des Moines, gas prices are up 69.6 cents from February.

• Iowa drivers, already squeezed by rising costs, are saying the increase in prices for gas are hitting their finances hard and “disrupting daily life.”

• Iowans can expect to see increased costs for “transportation, manufacturing, agriculture and global shipping” thanks to skyrocketing diesel prices.

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