{"692916":{"#nid":"692916","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Can Presidents Influence Gas Prices? New Research Fuels the Debate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEconomists have long dismissed the public perception that presidents influence gas prices as economic illiteracy. New research from Georgia Tech economists\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/dylan-brewer\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003EDylan Brewer\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/matthew-oliver\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003EMatthew Oliver\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;calls that assumption into question, finding significant differences in average gas prices across administrations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eneco.2026.109583\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003EThe study\u003C\/a\u003E is timely, arriving amid widespread public discontent over rising fuel prices, with voter frustrations reflected in a series of national polls blaming the Trump administration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the researchers do not determine how much of the price differences across administrations, if any, are caused by presidents themselves, they argue economists may have been too confident in dismissing the possibility without much direct evidence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf economists really think that the president doesn\u0027t have influence, the burden of proof is on economists to explain that these differences can\u0027t be interpreted as the result of each president\u0027s actions,\u0022 Brewer said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2026\/09\/presidents-influence-gas-prices\u0022\u003ERead the full story.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEconomists have long dismissed the public perception that presidents influence gas prices as economic illiteracy. New research from Georgia Tech economists\u0026nbsp;Dylan Brewer\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Matthew Oliver\u0026nbsp;calls that assumption into question, finding significant differences in average gas prices across administrations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Economists have long dismissed the public perception that presidents influence gas prices as economic illiteracy. New research from Georgia Tech economists\u00a0Dylan Brewer\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew Oliver\u00a0calls that assumption into question."}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2026-09-29 16:17:31","changed_gmt":"2026-09-29 18:33:57","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681288":{"id":"681288","type":"image","title":"MERCURY--3-.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOliver was inspired by the stickers he saw on gas pumps showing then-President Joe Biden pointing at the price saying \u0022I did that.\u0022 Photo by Whoisjohngalt, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1790698656","gmt_created":"2026-09-29 16:17:36","changed":"1790698656","gmt_changed":"2026-09-29 16:17:36","alt":"Oliver was inspired by the stickers he saw on gas pumps showing Joe Biden pointing at the price saying \u0022I did that.\u0022 Photo by Whoisjohngalt, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.","file":{"fid":"265659","name":"MERCURY--3-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/29\/MERCURY--3-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/29\/MERCURY--3-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1009816,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/29\/MERCURY--3-.jpg?itok=9I_J7jau"}}},"media_ids":["681288"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dminardi3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDi Minardi\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}