ICYMI: 25 Years of Titus Driving Gas Prices Higher

November 25, 2025

In case you missed it, Democrat Dina Titus brushed off conversation about high gas prices, and it’s not a surprise given a 25-year record of voting to raise taxes on fuel, block domestic energy production, and keep the costs at the pump soaring for Nevada families.

“Only someone as wildly out of touch as Dina Titus could scoff at lower gas prices after spending 25 years voting to make them higher. Nevada families deserve relief, not a career politician who laughs off their pain.” – NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez

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

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.”

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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.

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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.

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