{"id":860360,"date":"2021-10-08T16:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860360"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:28:35","slug":"fact-check-does-this-picture-show-how-low-gas-prices-were-the-day-biden-took-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-picture-show-how-low-gas-prices-were-the-day-biden-took-office\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Picture Show How Low Gas Prices Were The Day Biden Took Office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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-picture-show-how-low-gas-prices-were-the-day-biden-took-office%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=860360&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marjie.lewis\/posts\/10227037193133173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows an Exxon gas station sign with prices from the day President Joe Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image appears to have been generated using a website. Versions of the same image have been shared online for more than a decade, according to a reverse image search.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The average price of gas across the U.S. is up from $2.19 per gallon last year to $3.26 as of Oct. 8, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Automobile Association<\/a>. The rise largely has to do with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-are-gas-prices-so-high-right-now-3-reasons-2021-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a> reported, but that has not stopped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/04\/gasoline-prices-gop-biden-497947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some Americans<\/a> from placing blame on the president.<\/p>\n<p>One image shared on Facebook on Oct. 6 shows an Exxon gas station sign advertising a gallon of regular gas for $1.84. Below the sign is a message that reads, \u201cJust kidding, those were our prices the day Biden took office.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2018\/06\/15\/fact-check-trump-price-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Is Trump To Blame For $3 A Gallon Gas?)&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly identical versions of the image, however, have been shared on the internet for more than a decade. A <a href=\"https:\/\/tineye.com\/search\/36a0dc46188781fecc4469c612c80d39d3e1cabc?sort=crawl_date&amp;order=asc&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reverse image search<\/a> reveals countless iterations of the same image were shared online as far back as 2008, all displaying different messages and gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>For example, one <a href=\"https:\/\/img.moonbuggy.org\/we-pay-more-then-the-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2008 version<\/a> of the post shows a gallon of regular gas costing $3.25 and a message that reads, \u201cHelp wanted all shifts we pay more then the NYPD.\u201d A version that went viral in 2012 showed the same gas prices and message as the version currently being shared on Facebook with the only difference being that it targeted former President Barack Obama, not Biden, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/gas-184-exxon-sign-highlights-gas-prices-the-day-obama-took-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Through an internet search, Check Your Fact discovered a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/atom.smasher.org\/gas-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">atom.smasher.org<\/a> that allows users to input their own gas prices and messages into the Exxon sign. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/sitemap\/http:\/\/atom.smasher.org\/gas-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archived versions<\/a> of the website show it has been active since at least 2006, meaning it could be the source of all the viral iterations of the Exxon post since then, including the post currently being shared on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth noting that the average price of gas was not below $2 a gallon when Biden took office. The average price of a gallon of regular gas was $2.39 throughout the week Biden took office in January, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&amp;f=W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Energy Information Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows an Exxon gas station sign with prices from the day President Joe Biden took office.Verdict: False The image appears to have been generated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-860360","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\/860360","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860360\/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=860360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}