
The White House Rapid Response team is hailing a new report by GasBuddy indicating the national average for a gallon of gas has now dipped below $3 per gallon.
That sub-$3 price is the first of President Trump’s second term and the first time consumers have seen it drop that low since the height of the pandemic.
GasBuddy, a company that allows users to track gas prices in real time, reported the national average at $2.986 – down nearly 20 cents cents from just a month ago, and 15.2 cents from one year ago.
🚨 BREAKING: According to @GasBuddy, the national average for gasoline has fallen BELOW $3.00/gallon for the first time since 2020.
PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT!
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 20, 2025
Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, announced the plunging prices in a statement on the company website.
“Gas prices have finally fallen below $3 per gallon nationally — the earliest date we’ve seen a $2.99 national average since 2020, when COVID was the primary driver of low prices,” he stated.
I mean, yeah. That, and who was President back in 2020?
De Haan also revealed that 35 states have average gas prices below $2.99/gal, with one station in Evans, Colorado even reporting a $1.99 cash price. Holy savings, Batman.
.@GasBuddy: “Currently, 35 states have average gas prices below $2.99/gal, and GasBuddy even recorded the first $1.99 cash price at a station in Evans, Colorado, with stations in Oklahoma and Texas not far behind.” 🔥 https://t.co/k4QHsElEK8
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 20, 2025
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President Trump was so optimistic about the declining gas prices that he said he’d like to get the national average down to $2 per gallon. Or maybe even a tick below that.
“I think we’re going to be at two dollars and the previous administration they were at four and five dollars. They were going up much higher,” Trump told reporters.
“They lost control of the price of gasoline, of oil,” he said. “They totally lost control, [Secretary of Commerce] Howard [Lutnick]. And then they went back immediately – ‘Let’s go back to Trump!’ – but by that time it was too late. They didn’t do what they had to do. They wouldn’t know. They really didn’t know how to.”
“But we could be hitting close to $2/gallon. I’d love to break it if we could.”
Our wallets would love that as well.
“We could be hitting close to $2/gallon.”
— President Trump (last week) https://t.co/NraUtJLmCx pic.twitter.com/slwCIwAab2
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 20, 2025
De Haan poured a little cold water on that lofty expectation, but did predict on X that gas prices would continue to drop to the $2.80s. Which is substantially lower than some of the Biden peak years, when the national average was somewhere between the cost of one arm and one leg.
“Barring any major disruptions, gas prices are likely to remain slightly below year-ago levels and could stay under $3 for much of the next few months,” he added.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) celebrated the news.
“After years of failed Democrat leadership, Americans are finally seeing gas prices drop toward $3 a gallon,” she said. “(Trump’s) America First energy policies are delivering real, tangible results that families can feel.”
“The difference couldn’t be more clear: under Democrats, we got excuses. Under Trump, we get results.”
The king of promises made, promises kept.
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