This from the man who WE the taxpayers PAY for HIS Gas guzzling SUV’s and Limo’s….
President Donald Trump is asking Americans to accept paying higher gas prices as a patriotic trade-off as the country continues its war against Iran, even as a majority of U.S. adults want the conflict to end—and think the nation should have not gotten into it in the first place, according to polling.
National gas prices in the U.S. have shot up since the start of the war, as disruptions in production and supply due to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have caused oil prices to skyrocket.
After briefly falling for a week, national gas prices are now climbing again, reaching an average of $4.06 on Sunday, up from $3.94 a month ago and $3.14 a year ago, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). That means gas prices are nearly 30 percent higher than they were a year ago.
That is more than a dollar higher than it was before the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran on February 28, when the national average dipped just below $3, at $2.98. According to GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan, it is also an unprecedented high for this time of the year.
“Americans today will spend $338 million more on gasoline than they did one year ago, or $2.35 billion more every week,” De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, wrote on X this weekend.
For U.S. voters, the rise in gas prices—which has driven up overall inflation in the past few months—is a sign that the president is not keeping his promise to lower the cost of living for everyday Americans.
But since prices at the pump started rising all across the country, with no state spared, Trump has been refusing to apologize to Americans—portraying the increases as something of a temporary, necessary evil……
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