Iowa Gas Prices Over $4 a Gallon After Randy Feenstra Broke His Campaign Promise to “Reduce Prices at the Gas Station”
DES MOINES – Gas prices in Iowa have surged to over $4 a gallon — the highest price Iowans have paid for gas since 2022 — and Randy Feenstra’s promise to lower gas prices as a campaign talking point is coming back to haunt him.
Earlier this year, Feenstra promised to “reduce prices at the gas station” and told Iowans that “gas prices are at their lowest levels in years.” Now, Feenstra is downplaying the impact of gas prices skyrocketing under his watch, saying that Iowans struggling with rising costs will “have to pay a little higher gas price temporarily.” Feenstra voted to continue the war in Iran that’s making everything more expensive for working families, and Iowans have said surging gas prices are “atrocious,” “painful,” and “a severe burden.”
This comes after Feenstra admitted he voted for a “massive” and “catastrophic” increase in fertilizer and fuel prices for Iowa farmers. Feenstra has done nothing to expand markets for farmers by failing to deliver on his promise to pass year-round E15, which would also bring down gas prices nationwide.
From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:
“After Randy Feenstra broke his promise to lower costs, voted to continue our cost-of-living crisis, and told Iowans to live with it, voters can’t trust him to bring down costs as governor. Iowans filling up at the pump know the only thing Feenstra is taking to ‘new heights’ is their cost of living.”
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