EXCLUSIVE: Dina Titus Scoffs at Lower Gas Prices As Her Record Shows She’s Spent 25 Years Making Them Higher

At a town hall this past Sunday, Rep. Dina Titus did what she always does when confronted with the brutal reality facing working Nevadans: she shrugged it off. Asked about high gas prices and President Trump’s statement that prices are dropping in many parts of the country, Titus smirked and quipped, “I don’t know where you’re buying gas for under $2.00, but in Las Vegas it’s over 4.”

Nevadans don’t need a lecture. They need relief. And Titus’ dismissive tone only underscores a truth she’s spent her entire political career trying to dodge: Dina Titus is one of the architects of Nevada’s pain at the pump.

In March 2023, Titus voted against H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, a sweeping Republican bill designed to boost domestic energy production, streamline permitting, and increase access to critical minerals. In other words: a bill designed to lower energy costs for every American family.

H.R. 1 wasn’t vague or symbolic. It would have sharply increased domestic production of oil, natural gas, and coal. It would have dismantled the slow-moving bureaucratic roadblocks that stop energy projects from ever breaking ground. And it would have made the United States more energy-independent at a time when global instability continues to rattle markets.

CBS News described the bill plainly: it would “sharply increase domestic production” and “ease permitting restrictions.” Even four Democrats joined Republicans to pass it. Titus was not one of them.

Titus voted no anyway.

Roll Call noted the bill would rein in “Biden’s disastrous energy policies that are driving inflation, keeping gas prices high and wages under water.” But Titus sided with Biden’s agenda instead of Nevada drivers.

Titus’ disdain for lower gas prices isn’t new, it’s ideological. She’s been pushing tax hikes on gas and diesel since the 1990s.

In 1997, she voted for A.B. 525, tying Nevada’s gas tax to the federal government’s rate. If the federal tax drops, Nevada’s automatically rises – exactly as Titus proudly explained in a 2008 radio interview.

In 2005, when asked whether she supported permanently removing the state gas tax, Titus rejected it outright and instead blamed oil companies. By 2007, she was suggesting raising the diesel tax and even referred to commercial truckers, Nevada’s economic lifeblood, as “the biggest users and abusers of the Nevada Highway System.”

That condescending attitude has never changed.

In 2016, she floated raising the federal gas tax, claiming it hadn’t gone up “in a number of years.”

In 2018, she said point-blank: “we’ve got to raise the gas tax.”

In 2020, she doubled down again, calling a gas tax hike “a real investment.”

And in 2021, Titus casually admitted that Democrats were “meh” about higher gas prices—because they could afford to be.

For most families, every extra dollar at the pump matters. Gas isn’t optional in a state built on tourism, hospitality, commuting, and long-distance travel.

Titus may laugh off lower prices in other states. But it’s her record, 25 straight years of taxing, obstructing, and voting against domestic production, that helped make Nevada’s gas prices some of the highest in the nation.

Her Sunday town hall didn’t reveal a new Dina Titus. It revealed the same out of touch politician Nevadans have come to know: dismissive, condescending, and committed to an agenda that keeps prices high and working families squeezed.

Nevada deserves a representative who actually wants to lower gas prices, not one who mocks the very idea.

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