On Day 198 of War of Whimsy, experts say Trump deserves most of the blame for high diesel prices

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Bottom headline:  New York Times, 9/14/2026

Lauren McCarthy reports:

The average price of a gallon of diesel in the United States has been setting records in recent days, topping $6 a gallon on Friday and climbing to $6.23 by Monday morning, up about 65 percent since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.  [emphasis added]

The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline, $4.31 on Monday, has also risen sharply since the start of the Iran war, by about 45 percent. And the global price of oil, the raw material for diesel, gasoline and other fuels, is up roughly 50 percent.

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