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Burgum blames Dems for high gas prices, not Strait of Hormuz turmoil
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Burgum blames Dems for high gas prices, not Strait of Hormuz turmoil

The Hill · Jun 13, 2026, 6:05 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shifted blame around rising gas prices amid the Iran war to Democratic state officials on Friday. “The price of gasoline varies across our whole country largely right now by state policy and state taxes, not by the underlying fundamentals,” Burgum told Fox News’s Aisha

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