Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has responded to The Post’s report of her getting a ride home from an event Sunday in a gas-guzzling, for-hire minivan — saying it belongs to her aunt.

“I will have you know my tía was very upset that the ny post insulted her minivan,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Sunday night. “If they saw how many goldfish snacks were in this thing they’d say I was killing the ocean too.”

The freshman congresswoman was caught on camera making her getaway from a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens on Sunday inside the white Chrysler Town & Country — which averages just 17 mpg in the city.

The vehicle had Taxi and Limousine Commission plates, though it’s unclear if the woman who Ocasio-Cortez said was her aunt is a livery driver. Attempts to reach the Democratic lawmaker were not immediately successful.

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