{"id":1524290,"date":"2022-06-20T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524290"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:34:23","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-how-cheap-gas-prices-were-on-jan-6-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-how-cheap-gas-prices-were-on-jan-6-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show How Cheap Gas Prices Were On Jan. 6, 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-how-cheap-gas-prices-were-on-jan-6-2021%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CullmanDailyNews\/posts\/pfbid0XVd465iWPRKyGymTP3ozfb8KPpuvL726ywXojAtPZ4QWsJGBsUzrE4DbTkvBnSurl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a gas station on Jan. 6, 2021 advertising regular unleaded gas for $1.73 a gallon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7453721\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7453721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is from 2016, not January 2021. The national average was above $2 a gallon in January 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The average national gas price is currently $5 a gallon in the U.S., a record high, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Automobile Association (AAA)<\/a>. Some analysts suggest that a recession would be \u201cthe solution\u201d to combat high gas prices, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/gas-prices-solution-recession-analyst-says-112332035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CullmanDailyNews\/posts\/pfbid0XVd465iWPRKyGymTP3ozfb8KPpuvL726ywXojAtPZ4QWsJGBsUzrE4DbTkvBnSurl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>, shared over 900 times, appears to show an Exxon Mobil gas station sign listing regular unleaded gas for $1.73 a gallon. \u201cWe will never forget January 6th, 2021,\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims.<\/p>\n<p>While the image does show a legitimate sign, the photo predates January 2021 by about five years. A reverse image search revealed the picture was taken by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/gas-prices-are-displayed-at-an-exxon-gas-station-in-news-photo\/503469534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a> photographer in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil prices fell further January 5 as the crude supply glut overshadowed a diplomatic row between key producers Saudi Arabia and Iran as fuel prices in the US have fallen below $2 per gallon,\u201d the picture\u2019s description reads. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/06\/08\/fact-check-does-photo-gas-station-omaha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Photo Show A Gas Station In Omaha, Nebraska Selling Gas For $9.99 A Gallon?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The national gas price average in January 2021 was $2.05, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&#038;s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&#038;f=m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EIA<\/a>. Prices then fell to $1.87 nationally the next month, the lowest recorded price during the 2010s, data shows.<\/p>\n<p>National gas prices in January 2021 were $2.33 per gallon, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/opendata\/v1\/qb.php?sdid=PET.EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG.M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EIA<\/a>. At the time, the lowest recorded gas market in the country was Mississippi, where gas was $2.08 per gallon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.automotive-fleet.com\/10134992\/national-average-gas-prices-rise-steadily-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automotive Fleet<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time gas-related misinformation has gone viral. Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/07\/fact-check-9-dollar-gas-california-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently<\/a>\u00a0debunked an image of a gas station sign advertising gas for $9 a gallon as well as another <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/06\/15\/fact-check-gas-station-prices-joe-biden-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> that claimed to show a gas station sign that reads, \u201cFuck Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a gas station on Jan. 6, 2021 advertising regular unleaded gas for $1.73 a gallon.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The image is from 2016, not January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}