Rising gasoline prices are already starting to bite U.S. household finances and Americans overwhelmingly expect fuel costs will keep climbing as Donald Trump’s war with Iran crimps global oil supplies, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Some 55% of respondents in the Tuesday-through-Thursday poll said their household finances had taken at least “somewhat” of a hit from the increases in gas prices. Among those seeing an impact, 21% said their finances were affected “a great deal.”
The average price of gasoline in America has surged by nearly a dollar per gallon since February 28 when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, prompting Iranian counterstrikes on the energy installations of U.S. allies and the effective closure by Iran of the Strait of Hormuz, which carries one-fifth of the global oil supply.
The economic risk is so dire that the Trump administration has mulled deploying thousands of additional U.S. troops to ensure safe passage of oil tankers through the strait, an endeavor some officials have warned might require deploying U.S. troops to Iran’s shoreline.
These stickers should be everywhere…
When you fill up your gas tank, or buy groceries, be sure to thank your local Republican.
I mean, for the most part, these are outside the control of most presidents, but Trump is such a monumental fuckup, that he managed to meddle and to do worse than his first term, which was an already low bar.
Apparently these stickers are outselling the Biden “I did that” stickers. How the Biden ones would be any other number than zero is a real mystery until I remember just how fucking stupid the right wing is…it didn’t even make sense when he was in office, FFS.
