This is a straight up lie. Prices at that time had been slowly trending upward, but they were far higher a year earlier. Certainly didn't skyrocket.

Here is some data for you all

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price#

The site above is a easier way to view the data exported from

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&f=m

It really does take 10x the effort to disprove bs as it takes to crap it out.