{"id":72138,"date":"2026-04-19T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/trump-energy-secretary-says-gas-prices-might-not-drop-back-under-3-a-gallon-until-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:58:38","slug":"trump-energy-secretary-says-gas-prices-might-not-drop-back-under-3-a-gallon-until-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/trump-energy-secretary-says-gas-prices-might-not-drop-back-under-3-a-gallon-until-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump energy secretary says gas prices might not drop back under $3 a gallon until 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Wright says \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019 when asked about lower cost of gas as average price soars to $4 a gallon in US<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wright, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s energy secretary, acknowledged Sunday that it might not be until 2027 before US gas prices come back under $3 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3mju2ignkx623\">Asked<\/a> by Jake Tapper, the CNN State of the Union host, when he thought \u201cit\u2019s realistic for Americans to expect the gas will go back to under $3 a gallon\u201d, Wright replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know. That could happen later this year. That might not happen until next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/trump-energy-secretary-chris-wright-gas-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Wright says \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019 when asked about lower cost of gas as average price soars to $4 a gallon in US Chris Wright, the Trump administration\u2019s energy secretary, acknowledged Sunday that it might not be until 2027 before US gas prices come back under $3 a gallon. Asked by Jake Tapper, the CNN &#8230; <a title=\"Trump energy secretary says gas prices might not drop back under $3 a gallon until 2027\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/trump-energy-secretary-says-gas-prices-might-not-drop-back-under-3-a-gallon-until-2027\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump energy secretary says gas prices might not drop back under $3 a gallon until 2027\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}