As you know AARP is nonpartisan and doesn't endorse, but they posed the same question to each candidate regarding the cost of essential items being high. Here's Trump's answer...
We're going to start by drilling and getting oil. I call it "drill baby drill." We're going to start by going in and getting oil because energy prices is what really led to the problem of inflation...
I'll just leave this here:
Production
In 2023, the US produced an average of 12.9 million barrels of crude oil per day, breaking the previous record of 12.3 million barrels per day set in 2019. In December 2023, the US produced a record 13.3 million barrels per day