During a Friday appearance on Fox News, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum blamed Democrats for high gas prices across the country, saying voters should "thank [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom for that."

Fox News' Aishah Hasnie and Burgum began the segment with a discussion on the potential deal between the U.S. and Iran to end the months-long conflict in the area, in which Burgum said President Donald Trump has "all the leverage."

Hasnie went on to ask Burgum to respond to a Thursday report from The Washington Post that warned gas prices may soon rise even further "as the commercial and government inventories that have mitigated price rises so far are rapidly depleting."

Burgum was quick to point the finger at "pundits" who have been "completely wrong on this from the beginning."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shifted blame around rising gas prices amid the Iran war to Democratic state officials on Friday.

“The price of gasoline varies across our whole country largely right now by state policy and state taxes, not by the underlying fundamentals,” Burgum told Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie.

Burgum pointed to several states’ push to rely on more renewable sources of energy. He specifically pointed to California, saying its position as the state with the highest U.S. gas averages is “self-inflicted.”