Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is blaming Democrats for high gas prices amid Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

Asked about a Washington Post report warning that gas prices may soon rise further due to dwindling global oil inventories, Burgum somehow blamed Democrats.

“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 host Aishah Hasnie.

Burgum pointed to several blue states’ push to rely on more renewable sources of energy as the reason for the higher prices, describing the move as “self-inflicted.”

“I think that we’re going to see prices continue to drop across the country but they’re going to drop unevenly because some states — I mean, for example, California. California was importing, two months ago, 60% of their oil from foreign countries,” he said.

“California was dependent on oil coming from the Strait of Hormuz. No other state, other than Hawaii, had that condition. That was self-inflicted,” he continued. “They’re heading towards having six. Texas has 38 refineries. Who’s got the most number of internal combustion machines? California. They are going to have high gas prices. You can thank [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom for that and their state legislature for the policies they put in. That has nothing to do with the Strait of Hormuz.”

Gas prices have surged significantly since Trump’s war with Iran, which resulted in the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz because about 20% of the world’s crude oil supply passes through this crucial chokepoint.

Also, Burgum is the least reliable person to question the effectiveness of renewable energy sources since he believes solar energy no longer works once the sun sets.