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Pete Buttigieg: “Explosion in diesel prices and gas prices caused directly by…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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JUST IN: Pete Buttigieg Reacts To Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's Road Trip Reality Show

Published | Video Starts at 08:25

This is not about Patriotism and it is an embarrassment to have him going around saying that a road trip quote, fits any budget at a time when more and more Americans cannot afford a road trip because of the Explosion in diesel prices and gas prices caused directly by the Iran war and by the Trump administration. To make road trips unaffordable and then go around celebrating your own road trip is exactly what people are so frustrated about. (08:25–08:33)

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Asserts that the Iran war and Trump administration caused an increase in diesel and gas prices.

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