NEW: Randy Feenstra Admits “We Might Have to Pay a Little Higher Gas Price Temporarily”
DES MOINES – As gas prices in Iowa continue to skyrocket, reaching nearly $4 per gallon, Randy Feenstra is downplaying the impact that rising costs are having on working families. Speaking on the Simon Conway Show, Feenstra told Iowans struggling with rising fuel costs that “we might have to pay a little higher gas price temporarily.”
Where Feenstra once bragged about gas prices as a campaign talking point, in Iowa they are now up by over a dollar a gallon this year alone. Surging diesel costs have already been making everything more expensive and “straining household budgets,” but Feenstra’s vote to continue the war in Iran will only make matters worse. The “atrocious” increase in gas prices has been described by Iowa drivers as “especially painful for people living on fixed incomes” 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:
“Randy Feenstra promised to lower costs for Iowans, yet he’s done the complete opposite. Between voting to continue our cost-of-living crisis, downplaying skyrocketing fuel prices, and getting nothing done on E15, Feenstra has proven he’s completely out-of-touch with working families — and Iowans won’t forget it.”
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