According to the EIA, gas should have been under $3 a gallon right about now. Big whiff!
Headline with graphics: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Bottom headline: New York Times, 3/31/2026
Emmett Lindner reports for the Times:
For President Trump, who not long ago was boasting about how prices had fallen since he was re-elected in 2024, the highly visible reminder of the war’s consequences is a political burden. “It is the biggest headache for whoever happens to be in power when something like this happens,” said Kate Gordon, a former senior adviser in the Department of Energy who is now chief executive of California Forward, a nonprofit business group.
Presidents have little control over gas prices, she added, but this is an unusual circumstance. “Usually, a hurricane hits the gulf and gas prices go up, and then whoever’s in power gets blamed for it,”
Ms. Gordon said, referring to the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Trump is “going to get blamed anyway because he’s in power, but also he made the decision to go to war in Iran.”
Which means that in this 'unusual circumstance', Trump deserves all of the blame for the spike in gas prices as a result of his "feel-in-my-bones" decision-making. Not to mention the cost of fertilizer and groceries and every other product that's hitting folks in the pocketbook.
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