And it was $1.69 on Inauguration Day, 2021

I did that

White House touts $3.49 gas, one cent cheaper than last July 4th

I happen to remember that because I filled my tank that day and while I was standing by the pump, remembered that Biden was being sworn in in about an hour, and had promised during his campaign to declare war on oil, beginning with cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. Which he did, and then proceeded to cancel oil exploration leases and put hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land off-limits to oil and gas exploration. He made lots of promises at the time, and he’s kept most of them, to disastrous effect.