Former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene used a Saturday morning post on X to accuse President Donald Trump of accomplishing, through soaring fuel prices, what Democrats and the Green New Deal never managed to do — pricing Americans out of gasoline and diesel and into electric vehicles. The post, published at 8:03 a.m. on September 26, 2026, is the latest in a monthslong string of public breaks between Greene and the president over the economic fallout of the ongoing U.S.-Iran war, and it lands as diesel prices climb to record highs in multiple states.
Greene’s full post read:
“Diesel is so high people I know who never wanted an EV are now talking about buying one.
It’s mind blowing to realize that Trump is ushering in the Green New Deal better than Democrats ever did by literally destroying American’s ability to afford gas and diesel.
Democrats were going to force you to drive EV’s and gave you a tax credit.
Trump is going to force you by making you go broke and giving in but without a tax credit.
I guess no matter who you vote for you get the Green New Deal.
It’s insanity.
America is one of the richest countries in the world with oil, but decades of America Last and we don’t have the refining capacity to be self sustaining.
You can’t hate the government enough because it clearly hates us.”
Greene’s Core Argument: Forced Green Energy Without The Incentive
The thrust of Greene’s post is a comparison she has drawn before: that Democratic climate policy sought to nudge Americans toward electric vehicles with financial incentives, while Trump-era fuel prices are pushing people toward the same outcome through financial pain. She wrote that people she knows “who never wanted an EV are now talking about buying one” because diesel prices have become unaffordable, arguing that the result is functionally identical to the Green New Deal Democrats pursued, just without the tax credit that once offset the cost of switching.
Greene closed the post with a broader condemnation of the federal government, writing that Americans “can’t hate the government enough because it clearly hates us.” She tied that anger directly to the country’s energy posture, arguing that despite being “one of the richest countries in the world with oil,” the United States lacks the refining capacity to be self-sustaining after what she described as “decades of America Last” policy.
A Pattern of Escalating Criticism Over Diesel Prices
Saturday’s post continues a weeks-long pattern. On September 20, Greene posted that Trump had surpassed former President Joe Biden for the highest diesel price in history at $6.50 a gallon, asking “Is this what winning is like??” She added that “EVERYTHING in this country runs on diesel!!! EVERYTHING that matters,” and told her followers she was “so sick of Trump’s ‘winning'” and to expect more videos on gas prices.
Five days earlier, on September 16, Greene posted a video from outside a California gas station in which she said, “All right, $8.49 for diesel in California. Let me tell you something. It’s $6.59 in Georgia. I don’t care if it’s Georgia or California. It’s way too high. This is ridiculous.” She went on to argue that the price spike touches nearly every part of the economy, saying “everything you buy — your food, your supplies, all of your goods — gets delivered by diesel.”
Around the same time, in a separate post, Greene warned that “the fuel crisis is only just beginning,” and directly linked the spike to the war, stating “the war in Iran has got to stop. This is Trump’s fault. This should not be this high. It needs to end. Ridiculous.”
Days later, as prices continued to climb in the Southeast, Greene posted from Central Florida that diesel was “almost $7 dollars” a gallon, calling the situation “insane” and declaring “this is all Trump’s fault.” In an accompanying video she warned that unaffordable fuel “is going to crush our economy and it’s only just getting started,” while also saying flatly that “Trump is destroying this country by fighting Iran and there’s no end in sight.”
Greene’s position is not a blanket rejection of the administration’s energy policy, however. In a separate post earlier in September, she backed a Trump administration plan to curb diesel exports, calling it an “America First” move and saying “all of our home produced gas and diesel should be for Americans and should be cheap!” while also criticizing oil producers for treating domestic resources as a way “for oil companies to make huge profits.”
Diesel And Gas Prices By The Numbers
Fuel-price data compiled by AAA shows the scale of the increase Greene is describing. As of mid-September, the national average price for diesel had reached $6.20 a gallon — a record high — up from roughly $5.40 a month earlier and $3.70 a year earlier, effectively an increase of more than two-thirds year-over-year. The national average for regular gasoline stood at roughly $4.31 a gallon over the same period, up from about $3.18 a year earlier.
Those national averages mask sharper regional spikes. AAA reported diesel crossing $6.25 in Oregon and topping $6.40 in parts of that state in early September, while separate reporting has tracked diesel above $6.50 nationally by late September, consistent with the state-level prices Greene has cited — $8.49 in California, $6.59 in Georgia, and just under $7 in Central Florida. Trucking companies have told local outlets the increase amounts to a roughly 50 percent rise in fuel costs since the start of the year.
The War Behind The Prices
The price spikes have coincided with Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. military campaign against Iran that began February 28, 2026. The conflict has repeatedly disrupted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for global oil shipments, sending crude prices above $90 a barrel for extended stretches. A two-week ceasefire negotiated in Islamabad in April 2026 briefly paused hostilities, but the truce was strained within days by continued Israeli operations in Lebanon, and fighting has resumed intermittently in the months since, including new U.S. strikes on Iran reported as recently as early September. Trump has also publicly pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure, citing the effect on global fuel supply.
What The Green New Deal Actually Proposed
Greene’s post invokes the Green New Deal, a nonbinding congressional resolution introduced in 2019 by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey that called for the United States to move toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within a decade through a sweeping mix of renewable energy investment, infrastructure spending, and electric vehicle incentives. The resolution never passed, but its aims were echoed in narrower form by the Biden administration’s electric vehicle tax credits, which offered buyers up to $7,500 toward the purchase of qualifying EVs. Greene’s argument is that Trump’s energy and war policies are producing the same behavioral shift — Americans turning to EVs — without any of the financial offset that Democratic-era incentives provided.
Greene’s Break With Trump
Greene’s criticism reflects a broader rupture with the president that predates the fuel-price fight. Once one of Trump’s most prominent congressional allies, Greene resigned from the House in January 2026 following a public falling-out tied to the Jeffrey Epstein files, after refusing to remove her name from a discharge petition forcing a floor vote on releasing related records. Trump derided her at the time as “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene,” a remark Greene has said triggered threats against her and her children. Her Georgia seat was subsequently won in a special election by Republican Clay Fuller, whom Trump endorsed. Greene has continued to comment publicly on the president’s policies, including the war and its economic effects, since leaving office.
A Story Still Developing
Greene’s Saturday post gave no indication that her public criticism of the administration’s fuel and war policies is likely to ease. With diesel prices setting fresh records into the fall and Operation Epic Fury still active, fuel costs are expected to remain a flashpoint in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections, with Greene positioned as one of the most visible Republican voices arguing that the war’s economic toll now outweighs any of its stated strategic gains.