Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday said that there was "no question" President Barack Obama had a plan to raise gas prices when he took office.

"When he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gas prices go up," the candidate told Fox News host Bret Baier. "He said that energy prices would skyrocket under his views. And he selected three people to help him implement that program: the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the EPA administrator."

The former Massachusetts governor added that Obama needed to fire the "gas-hike trio" because he had "suffered an election-year conversion."